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Aged two he had learned the periodic table - at 25 he's tech's latest billionaire

Austin Russell's driverless vehicle tech business Luminar has come to market with a valuation of more than $3bn.

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Dozens of tech companies sign ‘Tech for Good Call’ following French initiative

A couple of years ago, French President Emmanuel Macron initiated the Tech for Good Summit by inviting 50 tech CEOs to discuss the challenges in the tech industry and make some announcements.Usually,

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Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world's second richest person

The limelight-friendly billionaire is now worth more than $148 billion due to a recent surge in Tesla's share price.

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For Trump, life on social media is about to get more complicated

In single tweets, careers have been ended, foreign policy spats started and the news agenda upended. But as Donald Trump continues to drive missives across cyberspace from the comfort of the golf cou

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Tech in the Biden era

President-elect Joe Biden may have spent eight years in an administration that doted on the tech industry, but that long honeymoon, punctuated by four years of Trump, looks to be over.Tech is on notic

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Twitter and Facebook’s diverging philosophies were on display in the latest tech hearing

The latest tech hearing was a study in contrasts. Contrasts between lawmakers who made an effort to stay on topic in a hearing ostensibly about social media and the 2020 election and those who…

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Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg will face Congress again, this time about the election

After giving in to the looming threat of subpoenas, two of tech’s most high profile CEOs will again be grilled by Congress.On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will host Twitter’s J

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Human Capital: Amazon and CZI face labor disputes as Biden promises gig workers better protections

Welcome back to Human Capital. In this week’s edition of HC, you’ll read about the latest labor struggles at Amazon and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, President-Elect Joe Biden’s promises to gig work

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative faces racial discrimination allegations from former employee

Ray Holgado, a former employee of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, recently filed a racial discrimination complaint with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Holgado, who is Black

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Facebook hits pause on algorithmic recommendations for political and social issue groups

With just days to go before the U.S. election, Facebook quietly suspended one of its most worrisome features.During Wednesday’s Senate hearing Senator Ed Markey asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbe

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WhatsApp is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day

WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app owned by Facebook, is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day, company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at the quarterly earnings call Thu

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Facebook, Twitter and Google face changes to online speech protection

The move comes after unproven Republican criticism of social media for perceived anti-conservative bias.

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Section 230 barely rates a mention in Senate’s hasty pre-election flogging of tech CEOs

Today’s Senate hearing on immensely important legal protections for online platforms quickly proved to be little more than an excuse for Senators to accuse the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Goog

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Facebook, Google and Twitter CEOs to be questioned over anti-conservative bias

US senators will question the chief executives of the largest social media companies about bias - days ahead of the election.

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Social media CEOs to face grilling from Republican senators

Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to be grilled by Republican senators making unfounded allegations that the tech g

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How Jack Dorsey will defend Twitter in tomorrow’s Senate hearing on Section 230

Three of tech’s most prominent CEOs tomorrow will face the Senate Commerce Committee during a virtual hearing tomorrow and their opening statements are beginning to trickle out.The hearing, sche

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Facebook and Twitter CEOs to testify before Congress in November on how they handled the election

Shortly after voting to move forward with a pair of subpoenas, the Senate Judiciary Committee has reached an agreement that will see the CEOs of two major social platforms testify voluntarily in Novem