Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted the news Sunday night. “Elon’s appointment to the board was to become officially effective 4/9, but Elon shared that same…
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Ireland’s data centers are an economic lifeline. But environmentalists say they’re wrecking the planet
If approved, it would be one of the country’s biggest. A Dublin-based company called Art Data Centres Ltd. submitted the planning application for the center…
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Analysis: The Communist Party thinks China’s prolific censors are not censoring enough
But in the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party, it is not censoring enough — and needs to pay a price, literally. That’s far from…
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Elizabeth Holmes takes the stand in her criminal trial
Holmes began testimony on Friday afternoon in the San Jose courtroom during the first day of the defense’s case. She is also expected to testify…
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State attorneys general launch investigation into Meta-owned Instagram’s impact on kids
The attorneys general say they will look into whether, by continuing to provide and promote Instagram despite knowing of the potential harms, Meta violated consumer…
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UN to Elon Musk: Here’s that $6 billion plan to end world hunger
David Beasley, the UN food program director and former Republican governor of South Carolina, tweeted a link on Monday to a 1,000-word “executive summary.” It…
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China’s ‘unprecedented’ crackdown stunned private enterprise. One year on, it may have to cut business some slack
One day later, it all fell apart. In the year that followed, the Chinese government’s regulatory might has changed industries ranging from tech and finance…
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Irish startup’s pocket-sized gadget shows you what food is bad for your gut
There is no cure, although it can be managed with lifestyle and dietary changes. But discovering which foods trigger a bad reaction for individuals can…
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Early Facebook investor blames major advertisers for ‘turning a blind eye’ to Facebook’s problems
“What they are doing is willfully turning a blind eye to catastrophic problems that would not exist if they were not willing to advertise on…
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg responds to the massive Facebook document dump
“Good faith criticism helps us get better, but my view is that we are seeing a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint…
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The Facebook Papers may be the biggest crisis in the company’s history
On Friday, a consortium of 17 US news organizations began publishing a series of stories — collectively called “The Facebook Papers” — based on a…
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Facebook’s success was built on algorithms. Can they also fix it?
Now, hours of testimony from, and thousands of pages of documents released by, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen have renewed scrutiny of the impact that Facebook…
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