Census Bureau statisticians and experts from outside are trying to solve a mystery.According to agency documents, residents did not answer a variety of questions about their sex, race and Hispanic heritage, family relationships, age, or a count of how...
Barcelona saw a major wireless technology trade show open its doors on Monday. The event featured a reduced attendance and increased safety and health measures. These changes reflect the reality of industry conventions during the pandemic.Mobile World Congress was...
The majority of the world's top finance officials have supported a major revision to international taxation. This includes a global 15% corporate minimum levy to discourage big companies from using low-rate tax havens.At a meeting in Venice on Saturday,...
According to testimony Wednesday from a senior executive at Microsoft, federal law enforcement agencies secretly search the data of Microsoft customers many times per year.Tom Burt, Microsoft's corporate vice-president for customer security, and trust, stated to members of the...
According to the Justice Department, Russian hackers were responsible for hacking into email accounts of prominent federal prosecutors offices in the country.According to the department, 80% of Microsoft email accounts belonging to employees at four U.S. Attorney offices in...
Regulators ordered Tencent to end exclusive music copyright owners' contracts. This was in addition to increasing enforcement of anti-monopoly rules as Beijing tightens its grip on the booming internet industries.According to the State Administration for Market Regulation, Tencent now...
Facebook shut down the personal accounts and investigation of two New York University researchers into misinformation propagated through political ads.Facebook claims that the researchers broke its terms of service and collected unauthorized data from its vast network. However, academics claim...
Joe Biden, President of the United States, tempered his assertion that social media giants "kill people" for misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. He said Monday that he hoped that they wouldn't take it "personally" but instead would save lives.Facebook and...
The Data Protection Authority of the Netherlands said Thursday that TikTok was fined 750,000 euros ($885,000) because it did not provide a privacy statement. This is because many children who use the video-sharing app will be unable understand the...
Officials said that India and China have failed to meet a deadline set by the U.N. to submit new plans to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order for the global body include their pledges in its report for...