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| Sep 17, 2026 | Ranking Member Markey: Record-High Gas and Diesel Prices Due to Trump’s Illegal Iran War Are “Crushing” American Families, Main Street | New data: 200 days into Trump’s illegal Iran war, average American family faces yearly fuel cost increase of more than $1,400, diesel prices surpass $6 per gallon for the first time in U.S. history
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| Sep 17, 2026 | Cruz, Markey Applaud House Passage of Legislation to Keep AM Radio in New Vehicles | WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today celebrated the House of Representatives’ passage of the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, bipartisan and bicameral legislati... |
| Sep 12, 2026 | ‘Liberate methadone!’ Some patients demand the system’s destruction | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
This is the second installment in a four-part series.
Drug dealers know where to prowl. They often troll the shadows of America’s methadone clinics, tempting patients aiming to chase sobriety with ... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Democrats demand Trump administration halt collection of patients’ ER records | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld and Darius Tahir, KFF Health News
A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the Trump administration to suspend a new surveillance program it quietly launched t... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Massachusetts Senate Primary: Moulton Has $10M in Defense AI, Markey Has Anthropic Money | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Sep 01 2026, 7:48 AM EDT
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| Aug 27, 2026 | AI bursts to the front of Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary | Artificial intelligence has rocketed to the front of next Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary, as Rep. Seth Moulton tries to unseat Bay State political titan Sen. Ed Markey.
Moulton, a six-term House member, has capitalized on... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Tesla’s ‘Zero At-Fault’ Robotaxi Record Rests on Unverified Self-Reports | By Frederick Rodriguez
Published: Aug 19 2026, 3:37 PM EDT
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| Aug 7, 2026 | Ranking Member Markey Releases New Data Underscoring the Rising Cost of Trump’s Iran War for Americans at the Pump as Big Oil and Gas Profit | American families stand to pay an additional $1,069 more for gas this year since the onset of Trump’s illegal war
The top five oil and gas companies raked in $46 billion in profits during the second quarter of 2026—twice as much as year pri... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Kids Online Safety Act social media safety bill advances in Senate | The Kids Online Safety Act cleared the Senate commerce committee and could head for a full Senate vote.
The measure has bipartisan support, and its supporters say it aims to protect kids online and establish stricter standards for social me... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Senate Unanimously Advances KOSA With Duty of Care; SCREEN Act Collapses on Quorum | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Aug 05 2026, 4:33 PM EDT
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| Jul 23, 2026 | TikTok’s Security Chief Heads to Congress: ByteDance Kept Algorithm After Split | By Daniel Butler
Published: Jul 23 2026, 10:50 AM EDT
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| Jul 23, 2026 | Meta Fired Two Researchers Who Told Congress Children Were Exploited in Its VR | By Adrian Parham
Published: Jul 23 2026, 6:46 AM EDT
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| Jul 22, 2026 | Tesla Q2 2026 Earnings: Record 480K Deliveries, $3.25B Cash Burn, and an Active NHTSA FSD Probe | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 22 2026, 5:01 PM EDT
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| Jun 19, 2026 | Tesla FSD Grok Voice Control Arrives This Fall With Parking Memory, Musk Says | By Maxwell Templeton
Published: Jun 19 2026, 15:08 PM EDT
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| Jun 5, 2026 | Meta Smart Glasses Facial Recognition Code Is Already on Millions of Phones, Wired Finds | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jun 05 2026, 15:48 PM EDT
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| Apr 9, 2026 | There are ‘credible legal questions as to whether FDA has the legal authority to eliminate self-GRAS,’ say legal experts | A proposed rule that would effectively eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway has been with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) since December 1, with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) expected soon.
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| Jan 20, 2026 | Everyone Knows Our Mad King’s Greenland Obsession Is Insane. Why Won’t Congress Stop It? | Look, I know we’ve all gotten somewhat numb to the constant stream of unhinged pronouncements from the White House. At some point, the brain develops defense mechanisms. But every now and then, something comes along that is so transparently... |
| Dec 17, 2025 | FCC leader says agency is no longer independent as he’s grilled by Democrats over Kimmel controversy | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators on Wednesday hammered the Federal Communications Commission’s leader for pressuring broadcasters to tak... |
| Nov 18, 2025 | The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature | Amazon Ring’s upcoming face recognition tool has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in Amazon breaking state biometric privacy laws.
Ring plans to introduce a feature to its home surveillance ... |
| Oct 6, 2025 | When He’s Not Busy Censoring Comedians, Brendan Carr Is Eliminating Free Wi-Fi For Poor Rural School Kids | Brendan Carr has received ample attention for his recent failed attempt to ban a comedian and trample the First Amendment, something he’s facing several fledgling investigations over.
But that disaster class in shitty governance shouldn’t o... |
| Jul 18, 2025 | Dem Senators Use Epstein Scandal To ‘Pressure’ Trump FCC To Drop Bogus Inquiry Into CBS | When last we checked with CBS/Paramount, company executives had just paid Trump $16 million in bribe money to settle a completely baseless lawsuit, effectively purchasing regulatory approval of their $8 billion merger with Skydance. It was ... |
| Jun 30, 2025 | Senate votes on amendments to Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ stretch late into the night | Senators are still voting on amendments to President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” in what’s known as a vote-a-rama..
Senate Majority Leader John Thune can only afford to lose three Republican votes and get the package through his c... |
| Jun 22, 2025 | Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns | The CBO didn’t produce state-by-state estimates, but other groups have projected that as many as 150,000 Coloradans could lose Medicaid, and an additional 110,000 could drop out of the individual health insurance market.
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| Jan 14, 2025 | Elon Musk to buy TikTok US? New report claims Chinese officials want Tesla CEO to… | Chinese officials are exploring an option for Elon Musk to take over TikTok if the popular social media company fails to avoid a ban in the US, Bloomberg reports. While Chinese officials would reportedly prefer to keep TikTok in the hands o... |
| Sep 24, 2024 | 83% Aware of GenAI, but Environmental Concerns Are Growing | Most UK adults are now aware of or have used genAI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot and Google Gemini according to a new survey.
Data from CloudNine shows that 83% of Brits are familiar with generative AI, including 27% who have tri... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Navigating the Digital Landscape: Education in the Age of Surveillance and Technology | In today’s world, technology is as ubiquitous as air. It surrounds us, shapes us, and, for better or worse, defines our future. Yet, as schools grapple with the dual challenges of integrating technology and ensuring student safety, a storm ... |
| Sep 13, 2024 | School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy For Unproven Promises Of Safety | Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: i... |
| May 23, 2024 | Meme Lord Wanted! Team Biden Seeking Meme Manager for 2024 Re-election Campaign | By Inno Flores
Published May 23, 2024 3:19AM EDT
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WASHINGTON, DC—OCTOBER 25: U.S. President Joe Biden holds a press conference with Prime... |
| May 6, 2024 | Steward Health Care files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy | Steward Health Care employees have "full faith" that hospitals and patients will get through bankrup
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| Apr 25, 2024 | Gen Z is losing its political voice on social media | President Joe Biden signed the bill this week that could ban TikTok from the U.S. if its parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell the platform. According to young political content creators, the ban could decimate Gen Z’s access to political n... |
| Apr 18, 2024 | Biden’s New Net Neutrality Rules Don’t Prevent Anti-Competitive “Fast Lanes” | One of the key reasons the net neutrality fight even became a thing was widespread concern that big ISPs would abuse their power to behave anti-competitively, picking winners and losers across the internet ecosystem, and nickel-and-diming c... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Student-loan borrowers faced 3.9 million billing errors after entering repayment, a new report from 4 Democratic lawmakers says | Economy Student-loan borrowers faced 3.9 million billing errors after entering repayment, a new report from 4 Democratic lawmakers says
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| Apr 10, 2024 | Private equity in health care becomes a bigger Washington target | Congress is ramping up oversight of private equity's influence in health care, though lawmakers don't appear ready to give government more power to halt deals.
Why it matters: Health care has been a magnet for private equity deals, even as ... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Telecom sector opposes US plan to reinstate net neutrality rules | WASHINGTON : The U.S. telecom industry opposes the Federal Communications Commission plan to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules that were repealed in 2017 under President Donald Trump.
Net neutrality rules bar internet service provider... |
| Mar 28, 2024 | Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect fre... |
| Mar 20, 2024 | Senators Carper, Markey, Padilla Statement on EPA’s Final Car Emissions Standards | WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee; Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the EPW Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety and Senator Ale... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect fre... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Senate tries to help old fossil fuel towns | The Senate is advancing a bill to boost a little-known agency that could make a big difference for coal country and small communities seeking energy money.
Why it matters: The Economic Development Administration hasn't been reauthorized for... |
| Mar 13, 2024 | Auto Makers Are Selling Data On Your Driving Habits To Your Insurer Without Properly Informing You | Last September, Mozilla came out with a privacy study indicating that the auto industry was the worst tech industry the organization tracked. Mozilla found that not only does the industry hoover up a ton of data from your use of vehicles, i... |
| Mar 9, 2024 | "Spring forward" Sunday with daylight saving time change | The semiannual changing of the clocks takes place this Sunday when most of the country will "spring forward" into daylight saving time.
Why it matters: The political fight to end the twice-yearly time changes isn't over despite st... |
| Mar 6, 2024 | Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect fre... |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect fre... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | Senators Markey and Cassidy Introduce Resolution Asserting Congressional Oversight over U.S. Military Aid to Azerbaijan | A coalition of over 25 civil society organizations have joined the ANCA in calling for passage of the Markey-Cassidy 502B(c) resolution on Azerbaijan
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Over 25 civil society organizations urge passage of... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect fre... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect fre... |
| Dec 7, 2023 | Senator Markey Sends Automakers A Letter Criticizing Their Nonexistent Privacy Standards | Back in September Mozilla released a scathing report showing how modern vehicles are a privacy shitshow. After studying vehicle systems for over 600 hours, researchers found that most cars hoover up vast swaths of sensitive location and oth... |
| Oct 27, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect fre... |
| Oct 18, 2023 | Combatting The Climate Crisis By Redesigning The Social Safety Net | David Helene is the founder and CEO of Beam. |
| Oct 16, 2023 | Google lobbies against legally mandated age verification for minors | Google is challenging proposed laws that would require online services to implement age checks in a new framework that theorizes how technology companies should approach children’s safety online. The framework, titled the “Legislative Frame... |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Could you get "carhacked"? The growing risk of keyless vehicle thefts and how to protect yourself | You arrive home and toss your car keys on a table near your front door. It's an ordinary habit that is all today's thieves need to launch a "relay attack" to capture the signal from your key fob, unlock your car and drive it away.... |
| Sep 24, 2023 | The American Climate Corps Will Put Thousands To Work Building A Stronger Country | Ninety years ago, President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps put millions of Americans to work building a stronger country, confronting the biggest crisis of its time – the Great Depression. |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Markey and Manchin urge FDA to stop its study of opioids for chronic pain | Two Democratic senators are warning the Food and Drug Administration not to proceed with a controversial trial meant to measure opioids’ effectiveness as a chronic pain treatment.
In a letter shared with STAT, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and ... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and prote... |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and prote... |
| Jul 18, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Biden directs HHS to boost contraception access, a year after Dobbs decision | WASHINGTON – President Biden on Friday told federal health officials to boost contraception access, the administration’s latest attempt to shore up reproductive rights as abortion limits snowball across the country.
The president’s executiv... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Amazon's Ring will pay $5.8 million to settle FTC lawsuit alleging employees and third-party contractors had unrestricted access to customer videos | Amazon's Ring will pay the FTC $5.8 million to settle a lawsuit claiming privacy violations, according to Wednesday court filings.
The FTC alleged Ring employees and third-party contractors had unrestricted access to customers' video record... |
| May 31, 2023 | Amazon's Ring will pay $5.8 million to settle FTC lawsuit alleging employees and third-party contractors had unrestricted access to customer videos | Amazon's Ring will pay the FTC $5.8 million to settle a lawsuit over privacy violation claims. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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| May 25, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| May 24, 2023 | The AM Radio Isn’t Dead. Ford Wants to Save It. | The Federal debt ceiling is a gnarly debate for law makers on opposite sides of the aisle and is the one currently grabbing headlines. But lawmakers do have something they seem to all agree on: Keeping AM radio in cars. |
| May 24, 2023 | AM Car Radio Isn’t Dead. Ford and Congress Want to Save It. | The Federal debt ceiling is a gnarly debate for law makers on opposite sides of the aisle and is the one currently grabbing headlines. But lawmakers do have something they seem to all agree on: Keeping AM radio in cars. |
| May 18, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| May 12, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| May 11, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| May 8, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| May 1, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Apr 28, 2023 | Nuke-launching AI would be illegal under proposed US law | Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a nuclear mushroom cloud.
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| Apr 26, 2023 | A New Approach to Prosecuting Border Militias | Private militias epitomize the recent resurgence in domestic terrorist activity in the United States. One of the more alarming interactions between militias and civilians—especially in the Southwest—is during militia patrols along the U.S.-... |
| Apr 21, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Apr 18, 2023 | Meta opens up its social VR space Horizon Worlds to teens | Meta announced today that it’s opening up Horizon Worlds to teen users in the U.S. and Canada, after previously restricting the social VR platform to users 18 years of age and above. As part of the expansion, the company says it’s introduci... |
| Apr 17, 2023 | The EPA goes after tailpipe emissions, Elon gets an ultimatum and Careem lands $400M for its super app | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| Apr 14, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Apr 12, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Apr 11, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Apr 4, 2023 | Elon Musk’s Twitter: Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification | Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter, where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO first announced his bid to buy Twitter in April 2022, zealously driven to rid the platform of spam bots and protect free ... |
| Mar 23, 2023 | Four legislative actions for an equitable energy transition | Renewable energy, primarily solar, wind and energy storage, is expected to become the dominant source of electric generation by 2030. The low-case and high-case projections place clean energy’s share of electricity generation between 71% to... |
| Mar 3, 2023 | Democratic Senators urge Meta to halt launch of Metaverse app for teens, citing company's 'failure to protect' young users | Meta is preparing to open its app 'Horizon Worlds' to teens as early as this month.
Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal are calling on the company to halt plans for the app's release.
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| Mar 2, 2023 | Senators urge Zuckerberg to keep teens out of the metaverse | Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Ed Markey (D-MA) wrote a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to halt Meta’s plans to open Horizon Worlds to teens. Per a leaked memo, Meta may open access to its social VR platform for users ... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | Senators Ask Meta to ‘Halt’ its ‘Horizon Worlds’ Rollout for Teens to Access, Citing Safety Concerns | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 02 March 2023, 09:03 pm
The plans to allow teenagers to access the "Horizon Worlds" virtual world is coming soon for all, but it is now facing two Senators pleading to Meta against this expanded access t... |
| Feb 27, 2023 | Senator Markey calls on Elon Musk to reinstate Twitter’s accessibility team | After several rounds of layoffs, Twitter’s staff is down from about 7,500 employees to less than 2,000 — and one of the numerous cuts across the company eliminated the platform’s entire accessibility team last year.
In an open letter to Elo... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Senators push for "passenger bill of rights" that would give travelers at least $1,350 if bumped due to oversold flight | A group of senators is pushing for airline passenger protections after severe travel disruptions ruined the holidays for tens of thousands of Americans. Under the new rules, airlines would be forced to compensate flyers during airline-cause... |
| Feb 4, 2023 | John Fetterman's picture-taking, buddy-making, convention-breaking first month on Capitol Hill | Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and his family await their turn in the Old Senate Chamber on January 3, 2023. Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/Reuters
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| Dec 28, 2022 | Frustrated Southwest pilot and union rep says the airline's flight meltdown was caused by outdated scheduling software | Passengers wait in line to check in for their flights at Southwest Airlines service desk at LaGuardia Airport, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, in New York. Yuki Iwamura/AP
Southwest Airlines has canceled nearly 2,600 flights so far on Tuesday after... |
| Dec 6, 2022 | Congress has its sights set too low on addiction, advocates charge | Judging by lawmakers’ words, addiction might be the most bipartisan topic in Washington.
For years, Democrats and Republicans alike have made speeches, authored bills, and issued statements decrying the national drug overdose crisis. The op... |
| Nov 15, 2022 | 10 senators seek update on auto safety improvements, prompted by CBS News investigation | Ten United States senators are seeking an update on a series of auto safety improvements called for in the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure bill, which was signed into law one year ago today.
The senators' letter inquires about the status... |
| Nov 3, 2022 | Providers of methadone treatment say a big increase in access could backfire | BALTIMORE — Providers of methadone for addiction treatment have a message for advocates seeking a giant expansion in access: Be careful what you wish for.
Methadone, they acknowledge, is a highly effective medication for opioid addiction. B... |
| Oct 5, 2022 | EU Parliament votes to require a universal charger for all cellphones starting in 2024 | Europeans might soon have an easier time finding the right charging cords for each of their devices. The European Parliament approved a measure Tuesday that would require all cellphones and other small handheld electronic devices sold in th... |
| Aug 1, 2022 | Democrats “Strategically” Push Net Neutrality Bill That Won’t Pass And Won’t Be Noticed In The Summer Heat | Democrats have a “strategy” they really love to employ that involves pushing bills they know will never pass. The idea is that while the bill may not pass, it will bring extra attention to whatever issue they’re pushing, and force the GOP t... |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Amazon’s Ring and Google Nest Give Footage to Police Without Warrants | Amazon’s Ring and Google Nest devices are popular home security options, but users may want to look elsewhere if privacy is a concern.
Ring and Nest devices are used in homes and businesses alike, but a new report says Amazon and Google are... |
| Jul 27, 2022 | Google to hand over video footage from your home to police without your permission
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Like Amazon, Google's privacy policy has a loophole which lets police forces access data from its products without user permission - meaning the state co... |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Amazon Ring handed home camera footage to police without asking customers first | TechAmazon Ring handed home camera footage to police without asking customers first
Amazon has handed over footage from its Ring doorbells to the police without asking for permission almost a dozen times this year - the company says it does... |
| Jul 14, 2022 | Amazon has handed over 11 Ring doorbell videos to police without owners' consent so far this year, report finds | Amazon gave police 11 Ring doorbell videos without consent in 2022 so far, per a US Senator probe.
It shares videos after determining there is "imminent danger of death or serious physical injury."
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| Jul 13, 2022 | Amazon’s Ring gave a record amount of doorbell footage to the government in 2021 | Ring, the maker of internet-connected video doorbells and security cameras, said in its latest transparency report that it turned over a record amount of doorbell footage and other information to U.S. authorities last year.
The Amazon-owned... |
| Jul 9, 2022 | Elizabeth Warren calls for universal device chargers, urging the US to join European Union efforts toward 'less expense, less hassle, and less waste' | Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to Twitter Thursday to call for "uniform standards" for device chargers.
Sens. Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders joined Warren in a letter to Department of Commerce on the issue.
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| Jun 20, 2022 | US SENATORS WANT TO COPY EU’S USB-C CHARGER MANDATE | US Senators are looking to take a page from the EU, pushing for a plan that would force manufacturers to standardize on a common charger.
The EU made headlines when it adopted a new rule that requires manufacturers to use USB-C for small an... |
| Jun 19, 2022 | Сенаторы призвали унифицировать зарядные порты в США | Американские сенаторы Эд Марки, Элизабет Уоррен и Берни Сандерс направили письмо министру торговли Джине Раймондо, в котором призвали ввести единый стандарт разъёма для зарядки мобильных устройств. Законодатели считают, что США должны после... |
