Net neutrality may be enjoying its final days after President Donald Trump‘s latest appointment. The president on Monday named FCC commissioner Ajit Pai to head the agency, which in 2015 adopted rules to preserve net neutrality. Pai, who replaces outgoing Chairman Tom Wheeler, a staunch defender of net neutrality, has already expressed a desire to …
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Donald Trump may’ve been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, but that doesn’t mean you suddenly have to start paying heed to his tweets. Or does it? More than half a million Twitter users might’ve worried about that, when they noticed that after Trump’s inauguration, they were suddenly following him on the microblogging service, by way …
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As he took the oath of office on Friday, President Donald Trump vowed that “the forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer.” “January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again,” Trump told the crowd during his 16-minute speech from the Capitol Steps. “Everyone is listening …
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For a group of people so fixated on not dying, gamers don’t talk much about health care. Amy and Ryan Green are an exception. “The Affordable Care Act was something that we were able to use when we got hit by a financial truck,” Ryan Green said of his family’s experience navigating insurance with a terminally ill son while launching …
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Who’s got two thumbs and a Secret Service-approved phone to tweet from? On arriving in Washington on Thursday ahead of his inauguration, Donald Trump handed in his Android device in exchange for an unidentified locked-down phone, according to the Associated Press. The phone comes with a new number that is known only to a limited number of people. This marks …
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Things aren’t looking good for net neutrality, given that newly inaugurated President Donald Trump reportedly is about to name one of its biggest foes to head the Federal Communications Commission. A Politico report citing unnamed industry sources says Trump will name current GOP FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai as chairman of the agency, possibly as soon as Friday afternoon. Pai and …
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Starting Friday, we’ll officially have our first social media president. Sure, Barack Obama’s ascendancy aligned with the rise of social networks. He broke onto the national political scene in 2004 with a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, the same year Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in a Harvard dorm room. But while Obama’s victory in 2008 was partly due …
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Samsung is ready to reveal some more details on why its Galaxy Note 7 have been exploding, but there’s a bigger mystery at hand: Why are so many people still using the potentially fiery phones? Verizon reported that thousands of its customers could still be holding onto their Galaxy Note 7 devices, even after Samsung held a worldwide recall and …
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Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” has found a new home at Netflix. The web series, formerly on Sony’s free video service Crackle, will debut on Netflix later this year with 24 new episodes as well as the 59 previous ones, Netflix said Tuesday. Seinfeld will also record two new standup comedy shows for the service and help develop …
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More than 1 million people signed onto a petition asking President Barack Obama to pardon Edward Snowden, proponents of the pardon said Friday. The campaign began in September, when Snowden, his attorney Ben Wizner from the ACLU, and other privacy activists announced they would formally petition Obama for a pardon. Snowden leaked classified NSA documents detailing surveillance programs run by …
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