Google announced Friday it will not run advertisements on its platforms referencing November’s elections, including the U.S. presidential race and its results, in the immediate aftermath of polls closing. Ads claiming victory for President Trump or Democratic rial Joseph R. Biden will accordingly be prohibited on Google’s namesake search engine and YouTube temporarily starting as…
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TOPLINE US tech companies Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Zoom and Twitter have said that they would temporarily stop processing requests for Hong Kong authorities on user data, while ByteDance’s TikTok has pulled its app from the region as the companies review the Hong Kong’s new national security law which gives local authorities sweeping online censorship and…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.Liu Jie | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesTech leaders have criticized President Donald Trump's latest immigration crackdown on the visa programs that their companies rely on to employ thousands of staff. Trump signed an executive order on Monday that suspends foreign work visas…
Amazon, Google, Twitter, and other major tech companies are criticizing President Donald Trump's move to halt certain immigration visas.The companies said it would make American firms less competitive and less diverse.In an order Monday, Trump extended a freeze on H-1B and other work visas, with officials arguing it would prevent immigrants from taking Americans' jobs…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…