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HAINES CITY, FL. – Using the latest technology, the City of Haines City has found a way to make it easier for cemetery visitors to find their loved ones’ gravesites. Recently, the city set up kiosks in both public cemeteries – Forest Hill Cemetery and…
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Say what you want about Elon Musk, he’s not boring – except in Fort Lauderdale. That’s because the city of Fort Lauderdale has struck a deal with Musk’s ‘The Boring Company’ to dig a public transit tunnel between the city’s core and the beach. “This…
Read More Florida City Goes Under – Ground – To Make Its Famous Beach More Accessible
The National Football League (NFL) and Twitter announced today a multi-year partnership extension which will include expanded engagement formats and a full-season commitment to produce exclusive content on Twitter Spaces, Twitter’s new live audio feature. Twitter will also continue to be a home for the…
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Duration Media, the digital publishing industry’s leading ad-tech revenue company for premium web publishers, has been named to AdExchanger’s 2021 Programmatic Power Players list. Launched in 2018, Duration Media has already onboarded more than 500 premium web publisher customers worldwide. These publishers benefit from VaaS™ –…
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Ailan Evans Food delivery service Grubhub announced Tuesday its plans to use robots to deliver food on college campuses this fall. The company partnered with Russian technology firm Yandex to use its “rover” robots to automate food delivery on more than 250 college campuses, Grubhub…
Read More ‘Robots Don’t Need Lunch Breaks’ Grubhub, Yandex To Roll Out Food-Delivering Robots
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos officially handed over the position of CEO to successor Andy Jassy on Monday, transitioning to the role of executive chair. Bezos, whose stake in Amazon is worth roughly $180 billion according to the Associated Press, announced in a blog post his plans to step…
Read More Jeff Bezos Steps Down As CEO Of Amazon, Transitions To Executive Chair
Ailan Evans The social media platform GETTR, advertised as a site for free speech, was hacked on its launch day Sunday. GETTR, a censorship-free platform described by its CEO and former Trump advisor Jason Miller as “The Marketplace of Ideas,” faced difficulties on its launch day as…
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Thomas Catenacci Last-minute changes to major antitrust legislation working its way through the House appears to exempt several Big Tech companies from being affected by its regulations. “This, by design, is Congress deciding who gets punished and who’s favored,” Berin Szoka, president of technology policy think tank…
Read More ‘Picking Winners And Losers’ Here’s How Congress’ Antitrust Legislation Avoids Regulating Many Big Tech Companies
Investing app Robinhood settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of a trader who committed suicide, the company revealed Thursday in IPO filings. Alex Kearns, a twenty-year-old college student, and trader committed suicide in June 2020 after his Robinhood account mistakenly showed a negative…
Read More Robinhood Investing App Settles With Family Of Trader Who Committed Suicide
Cole Crystal Federal law enforcement agencies covertly request thousands of Microsoft users’ information every year, a company executive told a congressional committee Wednesday. Vice President for Customer Security and Trust Tom Burt told the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on “Secrecy Orders and Prosecuting Leaks: Potential Legislative…
Read More Microsoft VP Says It’s ‘Shocking’ How Routinely The Government Secretly Demands Private Customer Data