Author: Tech Support

    • With large overheads, little revenue, and the need for more on-road testing, self-driving car companies face delays and layoffs during the pandemic (New York Times)

    New York Times: With large overheads, little revenue, and the need for more on-road testing, self-driving car companies face delays and layoffs during the pandemic  —  Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected.  The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult. With large overheads, little revenue, and the need for more on-road testing,

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    • Twitter acquires interactive mobile ad company CrossInstall for an undisclosed sum as Twitter rebuilds its ad server (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)

    Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: Twitter acquires interactive mobile ad company CrossInstall for an undisclosed sum as Twitter rebuilds its ad server  —  Twitter really wants a piece of the performance advertising pie.  —  On Tuesday, Twitter said it has acquired interactive mobile ad company CrossInstall.  No deal price was disclosed. Twitter acquires interactive mobile ad

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    • Yep, Slack is down

    Illustration by Alex Castro / Th No, it’s not just you. Slack is indeed down due to an outage of some sort that appears to have begun happening some time around 7:30PM ET. User-reported issues have spiked on DownDetector.com, and the app is largely inaccessible, with posts not getting marked as read or not going

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    • Democrats introduce bills in House and Senate making it illegal for telcos to shut off internet service during pandemic, a step beyond FCC's voluntary pledge (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

    Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Democrats introduce bills in House and Senate making it illegal for telcos to shut off internet service during pandemic, a step beyond FCC’s voluntary pledge  —  Democrats also pitch $50 monthly discounts with low-income broadband fund.  —  A proposed US law would make it illegal … Democrats introduce bills in

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