Ex-TikTok video moderator is accusing parent company, ByteDance, of failing to take care of their employees’ mental wellbeing against a nearly endless barrage of traumatic footage viewed and filtered out daily throughout long working hours. Candie Frazier was subjected to viewing hours of disturbing content, including mass shootings, animal mutilation, child rape, suicide, cannibalism, gang violence, murder, […]
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The jury weighing fraud charges against former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will start their second week of deliberations Monday. Holmes faces 11 criminal charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing technology as a medical breakthrough when in fact it was prone to wild errors. The eight men and four […]
A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook’s parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants. The Tagansky District Court ruled that Google repeatedly neglected to remove the banned […]
Beijing is planning to further tighten its grip on its tech sectors as its intensified its tech policies and regulations for overseas listing for China rising tech start-ups. China’s months-long regulatory campaign on its tech titans has left companies craving the sellout of their stakes abroad in order to register with the proposed guidelines by […]
Japan’s Cabinet approved a record 5.4 trillion yen ($47 billion) defense budget for fiscal 2022 on Friday that includes funding for research and development of a new fighter jet and other “game-changing” weapons as Japan bolsters its defense capabilities in response to China’s growing military might and its tensions with Taiwan. The 1.1% budget increase […]
The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into the potential for Tesla drivers to play video games on a center touch screen while the vehicle is in motion. In a document posted Wednesday on its website, the agency says the feature, called “Passenger Play,” may distract the driver and increase the risk of a crash. […]
Intel Corp. apologized Thursday for asking suppliers to avoid sourcing goods from Xinjiang after the chipmaker became the latest foreign brand to face the fury of state media regarding the region, where the ruling Communist Party is accused of widespread abuses. The company, in a statement on its social media account, said the reference to […]
AT&T announced plans to sell its online advertising platform Xandr Inc. to Microsoft, a move that will welcome the Big Tech giant into the digital marketing field. The tech titan stated that Xandr’s digital ad marketing strategies would fundamentally heighten advertising and retail media capacities. Only last year, AT&T disclosed plans to put on the […]
China on Wednesday defended its international scientific exchange programs in the wake of the conviction of a Harvard University professor charged with hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said China manages such exchanges along the same lines as the U.S. and other countries. U.S. agencies and officials should […]
On Monday, the Justice Department announced the extradition of Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin to the U.S. from Switzerland for charges in an insider trading scheme to infiltrate U.S. computer networks. The owner of the Russian company, M-13, Klyushin, is charged with four others for potentially hacking into significant publicly traded U.S. firms to access earnings […]