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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 …

Donald Trump’s phone use is raising security concerns among a pair of senate Democrats. Sens. Tom Carper and Claire McCaskill sent a letter last week to Secretary of Defense James Mattis about whether the president is using a secure device to make calls and post tweets. The senators, who both service on the Homeland Security Committee, worry that an unsecured …

Flipboard wants to get personal. The maker of the news aggregator app unveiled a major redesign on Wednesday, its biggest update in two years. The crux of the update is a change in how Flipboard organizes the stories it shows you. Instead of just grouping articles on several different subjects into one big digital “magazine,” Flipboard’s 100 million monthly users …

Now playing: Watch this: Facebook rakes in the money 1:31 Facebook may be fighting a fake news problem, but it’s making real money. For months, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has grappled with big questions about the social network’s role in the media industry. Things like: What’s the company’s responsibility in curbing the spread of misinformation? Is the onus on Facebook to …

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 1.7 billion people use Facebook every month, which means lots of people scan see lots of imaginary and made-up stories pretending to be legit at any given time. (We’re looking at you, #PizzaGate conspiracy theorists.) It’s been a problem on the world’s largest social network for at least a year, but made headlines during the 2016 US election …

Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft joins suit to stop immigration ban, other tech… 1:06 Bezos at a meeting of tech executives and then President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan last month. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO and founder, said his company is going into action to counter President Trump’s controversial immigration order, which temporarily blocked refugees …

Every year Google removes a lot of ads that violate its policies, but 2016 was the worst year yet. The search giant, which earns billions as the web’s largest purveyor of digital advertising, said it removed 1.7 billion so-called Bad Ads in 2016, up from 780 million in 2015. The offending ads range from payday loan ads, which Google banned …

Snapchat is growing up as a place for news. Snap, the parent company for the popular social network, said Monday it updated its guidelines for publishers, cracking down on images that are misleading or have no editorial value. Snapchat also laid out its policy for dealing with material that violates its guidelines, stressing that it will allow inappropriate material if …

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 …