Shannon Bond
Stories
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Stay Home: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Tell Seattle Workers
U.S. companies are trying to limit disruption from the coronavirus outbreak by curtailing travel and telling some employees to work from home. Several major tech firms are among the latest to act.
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Coronavirus Cancellations And Travel Bans: Google Is Latest
Companies are curbing employee travel and canceling major events as they try to minimize disruption from the growing coronavirus outbreak.
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Google Employee Tests Positive For Coronavirus; Company Expands Travel Restrictions
American companies are curbing travel and pulling out of big events as they try to limit their employees' exposure to the growing outbreak
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'Facebook: The Inside Story' Reveals A Company Made In Its Founder's Image
Journalist Steven Levy's rich history of the social network traces Facebook's cascading crises to the worldview and early decisions of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Losing Sleep Over The Quest For A Perfect Night's Rest
A boom in technology promising to improve sleep has an ironic side effect: orthosomnia. Thanks to sleep trackers, people get so obsessed with perfect sleep that they are losing sleep over it.
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Puerto Rico's Internet Voting Plan Threatens Election Security: ACLU
The civil liberties group is urging the U.S. territory's governor to veto a bill that could shift all voting to the Internet by 2028.
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2020 Political Campaigns Are Trying To Avoid A 2016-Style Hack
Four years after Russians hacked the Clinton campaign's emails, political candidates are scrambling to beef up their defenses against cyberattacks. Many politicians haven't updated their security.
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What's Next In Tech? We Dodged Robots At CES To Find Out
At the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the gadgets range from big-screen TVs and 5G networks to futuristic health care devices and toilet-paper-toting robots.
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Apple Pulls ToTok App After Report That Emirati Government Uses It For Surveillance
Apple pulled the messaging app ToTok from the app store after The New York Times reported that the app is used for surveillance by the government of the United Arab Emirates.
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Troll Watch: How To Be An Online Troll
A Finnish game lets players pretend to be trolls spreading fake news on social media. The idea is that if people understand how disinformation campaigns are built, they will be more skeptical of them.