Apple has joined the effort to educate and encourage voters ahead of the most highly-anticipated midterm elections in recent memory. In a press release posted on Monday, Apple called their new initiative “an easy way to follow the elections, with reporting from trusted sources curated by Apple News editors.” This endeavor is the latest in […]
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Who Really Wins With the Supreme Court’s E-Commerce Sales Tax Ruling?
Do you know how much sales tax Amazon has helped Americans avoid since Jeff Bezos started it in his garage in 1994? $20.4 billion In truth, it’s certainly more than that. That eye-popping figure is a straightforward calculation from Dean Baker and Evan Butcher of CEPR, the Center for Economic Policy Research. They figured it […]
Take a Look Behind the Internet’s Curtain with Oracle’s New Map
Oracle, the second-largest business software company in the world that’s best known for its cloud platform offerings, announced the launch of a brand-new “Internet Intelligence Map” last Wednesday. The map service “will help to democratize Internet analysis by exposing some of our internal capabilities to the general public in a single tool,” said Doug Madory, […]
6 Developments from Facebook, the Platform You Just Can’t Quit
It seems like you can’t look at tech news without seeing five new articles about Facebook. From scandals to new platform features, it’s nigh impossible to escape new developments about Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. So let’s dive into the latest goings-on from that site we all love to hate with a condensed look at a few […]
Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, and USDZ, Oh My!
I’m going to come right out and say it: LEGO was my favorite part of this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote. Yes, the conference that Apple junkies everywhere live for kicked off Monday at the San Jose Convention Center with a keynote that was largely focused on the release of iOS 12. Over […]
Paywalls: Where is the limit?
Remember the early days of the internet, when it glimmered with the promise of free and easily accessible information? That was lovely, wasn’t it? Well, it looks more and more like those days are coming to an end, with the most recent indications coming from Bloomberg and Facebook. On May 2, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait […]