Big Data
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Wolverton: Trump’s signature means no broadband privacy for you
Trump and the Republicans overturned the FCC’s online privacy rules, leaving the broadband industry without a cop on the beat when it comes to regulating the data they collect. Which is just how the broadband industry and its allies want it.
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Wolverton: House Republicans join Senate, undermine online privacy
House Republicans Tuesday joined their Senate colleages in pasing a measure that will leave broadband customers without any formal privacy protections and will preclude federal regulators from issuing any new ones.
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Activists to target lawmakers who vote against net privacy rules
Digital activist group Fight for the Future threatened to post on billboards the names of every lawmaker who voted in favor of a measure that would strike down new privacy rules, accompanied by the message, “They betrayed you.”
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Wolverton: Senate Republicans strike blow against privacy with broadband vote
On a party-line vote, the Senate on Thursday voted to strike down online privacy protections the Federal Communications Commission established last year.
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Samsung aims at Siri, Alexa with Bixby
Bixby, Samsung’s virtual assistant, will debut next week as a key feature of the new Galaxy S8 phone.
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Wolverton: Republicans aim to roll back online privacy protections
Republicans in Washington are showing how much they care about your privacy by taking steps to undo a modest but important set of privacy rules governing broadband providers approved by the FCC last year.
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Wolverton: Startup hopes to reinvent picture taking
A startup named Relonch is hoping to reinvent the way we buy and use cameras, starting with a store in Palo Alto.
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Intel promises to speed up data centers with lasers on chips
Pretty soon it may be commonplace for computers in data centers to communicate via beams of light. Intel announced on Wednesday at its annual developer conference in San Francisco that […]
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Report: Security breach at Oracle’s Micros unit could affect consumers
Oracle’s computer servers have reportedly been hacked, but you and I might suffer some of the consequences. The security breach affected the company’s Micros unit, which offers cash registers and […]
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Web publishing pioneer takes on virtual reality with new camera system
Halsey Minor was one of the pioneering figures in web publishing. Now he’s hoping to get in on the ground floor of virtual reality. Minor has founded Reality Lab Networks, […]
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