Brain-eating amoebas can be found in fresh water, including tap water from wells, doctors warn.
If you’re using a neti pot to pour water through your nasal passages and clean out your sinus cavities, you should only use sterile or saline water, doctors have warned after a Seattle woman died from a brain infection.
Officials in some cities worry that stores and restaurants that don’t accept cash effectively exclude people without credit cards or bank accounts.
A New York City councilman introduced legislation last week that would require retail establishments and restaurants to accept cash.
A chilling New York Times story revealed how location data shared with third parties can cause privacy nightmares.
Plenty of popular smartphone apps can track your location and provide it to data brokers, which use it for things like tracking the popularity of businesses, The New York Times reported today in a chilling new deep dive.
Google will shut down its hybrid database-spreadsheet product effective next year.
Users of Google’s Fusion Tables, a kind of hybrid spreadsheet/database/data visualization tool that was never fully integrated into the Google Drive productivity suite, got an email Tuesday saying the service will be shutting down on December 3, 2019.
The company’s sale of face recognition tech to the government has become increasingly controversial.
In a contentious New York City Council hearing into Amazon’s plans to build part of its so-called HQ2 in Long Island City, Queens, Amazon VP of Public Policy Brian Huseman drew boos over the company’s work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Joseph Sabia, a professor of economics at San Diego State University, wrote about the “dangers” of gay sex in a blog post mostly about regulating junk food.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce delayed a hearing on the minimum wage after a Republican witness, Professor Joseph Sabia of San Diego State University, was reported to have penned a 2002 satirical blog post about junk food taxes that included a rant about the supposed dangers of gay sex.
The threats generally claim explosives were placed in a building and demand a bitcoin ransom in exchange for removing a nonexistent bomb.
Businesses, schools, hospitals, and other institutions around the country received what appeared to be hoax bomb threats in their email inboxes Thursday, demanding ransom payment in bitcoin in exchange for not blowing up their facilities.
Companies like Amazon and Walmart say their automation efforts will lead to new jobs, but critics worry about the humans who could be phased out.
Since Amazon bought warehouse robotics company Kiva Systems in 2012, its efforts in automation have been well known. The retail and tech powerhouse has introduced its cashierless Amazon Go stores, flirted with plans for drone deliveries, and rolled out tens of thousands of robots to shuffle goods around its fulfillment centers.
Sen. Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat, asked the FCC to set up a three-digit number similar to 911 but specifically for mental health issues.
Citing rising suicide rates, Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon known for his work around tech issues, asked the Federal Communications Commission Monday to set up a new three-digit phone number similar to 911 for people needing help with mental health and potential suicide issues.
Both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes continued to fall on Monday, although cryptocurrencies staged a bit of a recovery.
Stock markets continued to fall on Monday, bringing the S&P 500 index to its lowest close for the year after a 2% drop to 2,545.94, CNBC reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 507.53 points to 23,592.98, and the Nasdaq fell 2.2% to close at 6,753.73. The Dow has lost more than 1,000 points in two days.
New York’s attorney general had alleged the company defrauded customers by advertising speeds its network and equipment could’t actually deliver.
Charter Communications has agreed to pay out $62.5 million in consumer refunds as part of a $174.2 million settlement with the New York state attorney general’s office over claims that it defrauded customers by promising speeds its equipment couldn’t deliver.
The attorney general says Facebook violated D.C.’s consumer protection law by failing to protect users’ data.
The Washington, D.C., attorney general sued Facebook Wednesday in a local court, saying the company failed to protect user data and “exposed nearly half of all District residents’ data to manipulation for political purposes during the 2016 election.”
The pair, affiliated with China’s Ministry of State Security, were allegedly part of a hacking group known as APT10 that hit computers at government agencies and tech companies.
The Justice Department charged two Chinese nationals allegedly linked to the Ministry of State Security in connection with hacking attacks on government agencies including NASA, the Navy, and dozens of tech companies, and went on for more than a decade.
Twitter’s stock fell after Citron Research called the company “the Harvey Weinstein of social media.”
Twitter’s stock price fell 11% to close at $29.29 Thursday after an investor note declared the company “toxic” and called it “the Harvey Weinstein of social media.” The note came in the wake of a recent Amnesty International report condemning harassment on the site.
Drag queen story hours at libraries have proven popular with kids and adults, but some conservatives have challenged the sessions in courts.
Since debuting in San Francisco a little over three years ago, drag queen story hours—where performers read from children’s books to crowds of kids and adults—have proven popular at libraries and bookstores around the country, but they’ve also been the subject of legal battles and protests in some places.
Airport screeners and other TSA employees are required to work during the shutdown but won’t be paid until Congress and President Trump approve a spending bill.
Transportation Security Administration officers are still calling in sick at higher than usual rates as they’re being asked to work without pay during the partial government shutdown.
President Donald Trump has warned the shutdown could last months, or even years, if he and Congress can’t come to an agreement on government funding.
A partial government shutdown has put thousands of federal employees temporarily out of work and forced others to work without pay. It’s also caused the closure of federal operations ranging from the Smithsonian Institution’s museums to critical payments to Native American groups.
Amazon says the product is compatible with some versions of MongoDB, a popular tool used by developers to store data.
On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new database tool called DocumentDB, which it emphasized is compatible with some versions of a popular database tool called MongoDB.
Textivia, a marketing agency, was in the midst of a rebrand when it learned its soon-to-be name, 3VE, was also the code name of an alleged multinational fraud ring.
Last month, a North Carolina marketing agency formerly called Textivia was all set to announce its rebrand to 3VE when partner David Christopher received an ominous email.
The group says the idea of heightened border surveillance could be terrible for privacy.
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested a “technological wall,” with increased electronic scrutiny of border traffic as an alternative to President Trump’s proposed physical wall, the internet freedom group Fight for the Future quickly circulated an online petition against the idea.