Category Archives: Technology

Seven House Republicans pledge to take no donations from major tech companies.

A group of seven House Republicans said on Wednesday that they would no longer take donations from major tech companies or their top executives, a sign of the growing distance between some conservatives and big business. The lawmakers said in a letter that the companies had limited the reach of conservative voices, citing bans on […]

Welcome to the YOLO Economy

In addition to the job-hopping you’d expect during boom times, the pandemic has created many more remote jobs, and expanded the number of companies willing to hire outside of big, coastal cities. That has given workers in remote-friendly industries, such as tech and finance, more leverage to ask for what they want. “Employees have a […]

Meet Virtual Reality, Your New Physical Therapist

The company has all of its programs registered with the F.D.A., said Eran Orr, founder and chief executive. Not all the programs offered for V.R. rehab are games; some clinics allow a patient to virtually practice real-life skills they may have trouble doing, such as grocery shopping or dishwashing. To really push the use of […]

Netflix’s Dominance Starts to Slow as Rivals Gain

Netflix still rules the streaming universe. As of the end of March, it had 207.6 million total paying subscribers, with about 67 million in the United States, the company noted in an earnings report on Tuesday. But its main competitors — Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount+ and AppleTV+, as well as the old-guard streamers Amazon Prime […]

Rogers offers to compensate customers after outage, credit to be applied to next bill – National

By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 20, 2021 4:38 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size –A Larger font Increase article font size A+ Rogers Communications Inc. is offering customers a credit after a massive nationwide wireless outage left millions without voice calls, texting […]

Apple launches new iPad Pro, slim iMacs with remote workers in mind – National

Apple Inc announced a line of slim iMac computers and iPads with higher-quality video that use its own processors, as it speeds its migration away from Intel and caters to a work-from-home world. The company also launched products including AirTags to find lost items and podcast subscription services. AirTags will cost US$29 each, while […]

Newer Planes Are Providing Airlines a Trove of Useful Data

This article is part of our new series, Currents, which examines how rapid advances in technology are transforming our lives. With few flights and even fewer passengers, the coronavirus pandemic unleashed a wave of challenges for airlines. Some have gone out of business and others are barely surviving as global passenger volume hovers at around […]

A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has Arrived

On Dec. 9, the Federal Trade Commission and nearly every state filed bipartisan lawsuits accusing Facebook of acting anticompetitively. Less than a week later, European policymakers introduced a competition law and new requirements for blocking online hate speech. On Dec. 24, Chinese regulators opened an antitrust investigation into Alibaba after scuppering an initial public offering […]