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Senate panel approves bill to give news organizations more power against tech platforms

Senate panel approves bill to give news organizations more power against tech platforms

LONDON: Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith has hinted that the tech giant is adopting a different approach to tackling disinformation and fake news. While other companies focus their efforts on removing fake content, and telling users what is true and what is not, Microsoft wants to avoid any suggestion that it is trying to censor speech online. “I don’t think that people want governments to tell them what’s true or false. And I don’t think they’re really… Source link

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Google Chrome’s side panel is a new UI for your reading list and bookmarks

Google has introduced a new sidebar feature to Chrome, which lets you quickly access your bookmarks and reading list while using the desktop version of the browser (via 9to5Google). Previously, the reading list’s main home was as a button on the bookmark bar, which not everyone has enabled. Clicking the side panel button, which looks like a rectangle with a shaded portion on the right side, will show or hide the panel. Once you’ve got it open, you can access the same reading list… Source link

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Google confirmed by phone label in local panel may add trust to local listings

Google is testing displaying in some local panel listing results within search if the local details of the business have been confirmed. Google is adding a label to the local listing that says “confirmed by phone” followed by when it was last confirmed; such as 8 weeks ago. What it looks like. Here is a screenshot I captured based on Saijo George spotting this and posting about it on Twitter: As you can see, it says this business listing was “confirmed by… Source link

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Jan. 6 Panel Claims to Have Evidence Trump Committed Crimes

(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump adviser John Eastman’s emails may have evidence the former president and his associates committed crimes in attempting to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results, a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection said in a court filing. Most Read from Bloomberg It’s the first public signal that the committee is looking into criminal activity by those within Trump’s inner circle. The committee says the emails may contain evidence of… Source link

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Bill targeting Apple and Google approved by U.S. Senate panel

A 3D printed Google logo is placed on the Apple Macbook in this illustration taken April 12, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to approve a bill that would rein in app stores of companies they said exert too much market control, particularly Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O). The measure, sponsored by Democratic Senators… Source link

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Exclusive-U.S. diabetes deaths top 100,000 for second straight year, federal panel urges new strategy

By Chad Terhune and Robin Respaut    (Reuters) – More than 100,000 Americans died from diabetes in 2021, marking the second consecutive year for that grim milestone and spurring a call for a federal mobilization similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS.    The new figures come as an expert panel urges Congress to overhaul diabetes care and prevention, including recommendations to move beyond a reliance on medical interventions alone. A report released earlier this month calls for far… Source link

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Tesla ‘knew about the problem well before 2017,’ whistleblower says of alleged solar panel risk

A former Tesla (TSLA) quality engineer turned whistleblower says the electric car maker has known for at least four years that some of its solar panels could catch fire but failed to disclose or fix the problem. On Monday, Reuters revealed that complaints over the alleged hazards filed by the whistleblower are the subject of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The agency confirmed the investigation in a Sept. 24 letter to the former engineer, Steven… Source link

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FDA panel votes against Pfizer’s booster shot

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted Friday against approval of Pfizer (PFE)/BioNTech’s (BNTX) third dose for the U.S. The vote comes after a heated debate in recent weeks over the need for booster or additional shots, which both mRNA companies — Pfizer and Moderna (MRNA) — have advocated for. Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s leading expert on vaccines, touched on the controversy in his introductory remarks. “We know that there may be differing opinions of the… Source link

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U.S. judicial panel moves Texas lawsuit against Google to New York

WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) – A U.S. judicial panel on Tuesday said that Texas’ antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) would be moved to the Southern District of New York, where other similar cases would also be heard. Google had asked that the case, which was filed against it by Texas and other states, be combined with similar cases in U.S. District Court for Northern California. Texas opposed the move, and the request prompted federal legislation aimed at allowing state… Source link

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Amazon, Google execs lead U.S. Senate panel antitrust hearing witness list

Executives from Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Amazon.com (AMZN.O) head the list of witnesses for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee next week, along with an executive from speaker maker Sonos Inc (SONO.O), which has been critical of the two tech giants. Ryan McCrate, an associate general counsel, will speak for Amazon while public policy specialist Wilson White will testify for Google, said Senators Amy Klobuchar, chair of the panel, and Mike Lee, the… Source link

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