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By: Todd Feathers and Alfred Ng In late 2019, Utah state senator Kirk Cullimore got a phone call from one of his constituents, a lawyer who represented technology companies in California. “He s...

https://thenextweb.com/news/tech-industry-groups-are-watering-down-attempts-at-privacy-regulation-one-state-at-a-time

By: Todd Feathers Driven to cyberspace by the pandemic, courts across the country purchased chatroom-like tools designed to help people resolve disagreements without the need for a full-on lawsui...

https://thenextweb.com/news/can-chatrooms-replace-courtrooms

Donald Trump’s social network TRUTH will supposedly launch on February 21, according to a listing on the Apple App Store. People in the US can pre-order the app of this social network, which cl...

https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-truth-social-network-february-launch-analysis

NASA executives and experts struck an urgent tone with Congress earlier this week over discussions pertaining to the space agency’s nuclear budget. Oh, I’m sorry. Did I say NASA’s nuclear b...

https://thenextweb.com/news/nasa-wants-build-nuclear-space-craft-what-could-go-wrong

Nicolas Chaillan, the Pentagon’s former Chief Software Officer, is on a whirlwind press tour to drum up as much fervor for his radical assertion that the US has already lost the AI race against...

https://thenextweb.com/news/sorry-former-pentagon-expert-but-china-nowhere-near-winning-ai-race

Paradox Interactive’s highly-anticipated grand strategy title Victoria 3 is set to ship next year. It’s been over a decade since the franchise’s last title launched and fans are chomping at...

https://thenextweb.com/news/victoria-3-will-simulate-slave-trade-should-it

When opposing Libyan forces signed a cease-fire last year, it wasn’t the savvy of politicians or the diplomacy of ambassadors who brokered the peace. It was the United Nations and a relatively ...

https://thenextweb.com/news/politicians-scientists-manipulate-surveys-ai

For a hot second, Florida-based politicians were jumping with joy at the sight of a law that punished social media companies for banning politicians. But now, a federal judge has put a hold on i...

https://thenextweb.com/news/florida-court-deplatforming-social-media-law-block

The last US presidential election featured the highest voter turnout in the nation’s history. The candidates received a combined 155.4 million votes with just over seven million separating them...

https://thenextweb.com/news/trump-shat-on-46-million-bitcoin-voters

The massive digital platform market has until recently been dominated by a handful of US-based companies such as Facebook and Google. However, as foreign governments and competing platforms try t...

https://thenextweb.com/news/digital-nationalism-threatens-entrench-big-tech-tiktok-syndication