Tech Employees Are Rallying Against Their Companies’ Work With ICE
President Donald Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the White House in 2017. Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On June 17th, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff retweeted images from a CBS reporter of a detention facility in McAllen, Texas where children slept on the floor, covered in emergency blankets.…
Net Neutrality Is Officially Dead. Here’s What’s Next.
BackyardProduction/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a drawn-out battle between internet advocates and Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, today marks the official end of net neutrality. Led by current Chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC voted 3-2 in December to repeal the Obama-era open internet rules. The decision went into effect…
Mark Zuckerberg Fielded Questions in Brussels Today. European Parliamentarians Say They Didn’t Get Answers.
Wiktor Dabkowski/DPA via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced a barrage of tough questions from European Union politicians Tuesday, largely repeating answers he’d given before a pair of US congressional committees in April. By the end of the hearing, the lawmakers complained that…
Missouri Is Making It Illegal To Call This “Meat”
nito100/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The United States’ beef and pork producers churned out 48.4 billion pounds of red meat in 2015, and made $9 billion exporting it around the world. Despite that success, they appear threatened by the growing number of meat alternatives cropping up in grocery stores.…
The FBI and Justice Department Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica
Alex Milan Tracy/SIPA USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI and Department of Justice have opened an investigation into Cambridge Analytica, the pro-Trump data company that surreptitiously obtained Facebook data from tens of millions of Americans. Cambridge announced earlier this month that it was shutting down after…
The Breakthrough DNA Technique That Led Cops to the Golden State Killer Suspect Is Exciting—and Terrifying
Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo (left) and a police sketch of the suspected serial killerSacramento County Sheriff’s Department/FBI/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When the serial murderer now known as the Golden State Killer committed his crimes across California in the 1970s and ’80s, he was extremely careful not…