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Comcast, AT&T and Verizon moved to reassure their customers Friday that they have not and will not collect and sell their personal data. All three companies made such statements a few days after the House of Representatives passed a resolution that would prevent tougher Federal Communications Commission rules on data collection from taking effect. The …

Now playing: Watch this: What the repeal of internet privacy rules means to you 2:26 Broadband providers won’t have to get your permission before sharing your web browsing history and other personal data with marketers thanks to a vote Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Republicans in the US House of Representatives approved a resolution that prevents privacy rules passed by the …

Now playing: Watch this: Google Home spouts crazy talk with fake news in answers 2:10 Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Google acknowledged Monday reports that it inadvertently allowed false information to spread over the weekend. “Unfortunately, there are instances when we feature a site with inappropriate or misleading content,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement. On …

President Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday night set a record for tweets sent during a presidential address to Congress. The address, Trump’s first to Congress since his inauguration in January, garnered 3 million tweets, Twitter said late Tuesday. Tuesday night’s activity easily surpassed the previous record of 2.6 million tweets sent during former President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address …

Ajit Pai, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, doesn’t let a little thing like a hurricane stop him from his obligations. When the rest of the East Coast was taking cover from Hurricane Sandy in 2012, then-FCC Commissioner Pai was sitting in his kitchen at his home in northern Virginia, delivering a keynote speech via video conference to …

Chance the Rapper beats everybody at selling music without literally selling his music. The Chicago hip-hop artist on Sunday night won three major Grammy awards, including best new artist and best rap album (beating out megastars Drake and Kanye West in the latter category). But if your instinct was to check out his “Coloring Book” on iTunes, you hit a …

YouTuber NykeFaller, having some fun with former President Barack Obama, has grafted the ex-POTUS’ face and body onto a virtual player in the video game NBA 2K17. It’s worth a watch — and a listen. Obama has always been open about his love of basketball as both spectator and player. He attended NBA games and developed relationships with players, coaches …

Beginning at 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m. ET) today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear arguments from the government in a battle to restore Donald Trump’s travel ban. The hearing will be conducted by a telephone conference call and you can follow along with the live video on the court’s website. Or, you can …

Government rules that would put an end to set-top box rental fees are likely dead. Ahead of the agency’s open meeting Tuesday, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, removed the proposed rules from a list of items to be considered by the FCC. At a press conference following the agency’s open meeting, Pai wouldn’t comment on …

More than 6.8 million people turned to Twitter to watch President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the social network said Tuesday. Twitter said that its six-hour stream of PBS Newshour’s coverage on Friday reached a record 6,824,000 million unique viewers, peaking at 377,000 viewers at 9:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. ET. Twitter added that the inauguration was its most-viewed live stream, just surpassing …