Google pays $11 million to settle 227 age discrimination claims
Enlarge / Google’s Mountain View campus in 2019. (credit: Michael Short/Getty Images) Google will pay $11 million to settle the claims of 227 people who say they were unfairly denied…
Equifax to pay $575M for data breach, promises to protect data next time
Enlarge / Now you can get six of these for free every year until 2027. (credit: Smith Collection/Gado | Getty Images) Equifax, the Federal Trade Commission, and other state and…
New York passes its Green New Deal, announces massive offshore wind push
Enlarge / Sights like this may become common on Long Island. (credit: University of Rhode Island) Yesterday, New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that’s been described as the…
How private is your browser’s Private mode? Research into porn suggests “not very”
Thought using Incognito mode might keep such searching private? Facebook, Google, and even Oracle have more of your Web usage in their sights than you might think. A forthcoming research…
Shkreli stays in jail; Infamous ex-pharma CEO quickly loses appeal
Enlarge / Martin Shkreli, former chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, center, listens while his attorney Benjamin Brafman, right, speaks to members of the media outside federal court in…
As Russian “FaceApp” gobbles up user photos, Schumer asks FBI to investigate
Enlarge / The FaceApp application displayed on Apple’s App Store. (credit: Getty Images | NurPhoto) Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called for a federal investigation into FaceApp, saying…