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with Tonya Riley Top Facebook executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, spoke with civil rights leaders last night as the company confronts a wave of backlash over its decision not to moderate President Trump’s controversial posts.  But the roughly hour-long call, intended to show the company takes concerns from the black community seriously, only further inflamed tensions.  …

Image copyright PA Media More than 11,000 people applied to a recruitment drive which aimed to boost the health and social care workforce in NI during the coronavirus crisis. Applications to the COVID-19 HSC Workforce Appeal are now closed to help “manage supply and demand”, but can be “quickly re-opened again” if required. The appeal, …

By Lisa Wang / Staff Reporter Fingerprint sensor supplier Egis Technology Inc (神盾) yesterday posted 15 percent quarterly growth in net profit last quarter, but said that order visibility was low for the second half of this year as the COVID-19 pandemic has upended smartphone supply chains and dampened consumer demand. Egis said it does …

Last week, 3.2 million workers filed unemployment claims, easing from the peak since the coronavirus triggered U.S. shutdowns but marking the seventh week of record applications. Nearly 33.5 million applications for unemployment benefits have been filed since mid-March, according to the Labor Department, in the seven weeks since authorities widely began ordering businesses to close …

with Tonya Riley Welcome to The Technology 202, our guide to the intersection of technology and politics. Posts selling unproven drug therapies to treat the novel coronavirus continued to surface on social networks over the last week, despite the companies’ promises to promote public health and crack down on misleading information. On Facebook, one account …

A United Airlines Holdings Inc. employee waits for a traveler at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, April 2, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images United Airlines on Monday reported a $2.1 billion loss for first quarter as the coronavirus pandemic drove travel demand down to the lowest …

Songwriter John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday with coronavirus complications and is in critical condition, his family posted today on his official Twitter account. The news came just after his wife, Fiona, announced that she had coronavirus symptoms. Prine is 73 year old and was one of the nominated artists last year for the …

NASA on Sunday shared a photo on Facebook and Twitter of the sun looking a lot like a giant flaming jack-o’-lantern. The space agency captured the spooky image on October 8, 2014. The face is the result of active regions of the sun burning more brightly than others, NASA said. “They are markers of an …

Tesla posted a surprise third quarter profit on Wednesday, sending shares surging by more as much as 12% in late trading.  Wall Street analysts polled by Bloomberg expect Elon Musk’s electric car company to remain unprofitable, a state it slipped back into earlier this year after two quarters of sustained profit. Here are the key …

The high court in Delhi has ordered Google and Facebook to remove all anonymous social media posts accusing the artist Subodh Gupta of sexual harassment and ordered Facebook, which owns Instagram, to reveal the identity of the person behind the account that first made the allegations. Last year, many well-known Indian men, mostly in the …