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Clearview AI has hired Floyd Abrams, a top lawyer, to help fight claims that selling its data to law enforcement agencies violates privacy laws.

Amazon said it was rebranding Twitch Prime, in another attempt to crack the video game market after a big-budget game effort failed.

The F.C.C. approved the company’s 3,236-satellite constellation, which aims to provide high-speed internet service around the world.

The doomsday warnings about tech start-ups failing in the pandemic have not yielded the shakeout that many expected a few months ago.

While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups.

One of the few women in the computer industry in its early days, she paved the way for the efficient, lightning-fast apps of today.

The therapy-by-text company made burner phones available for fake reviews and doesn’t adequately respect client privacy, former employees say.

The restrictions on the two Chinese-owned apps followed a familiar model for other policy announcements on China from the Trump administration.

The all-purpose app, which the administration is restricting along with TikTok, is how many Chinese living abroad stay in touch with one another, and with people back home.

Saying Apple forced changes during months of rejection, the social network is releasing a version for iPhone and iPad users today.

The government cited national security concerns in announcing sweeping restrictions on two popular Chinese social media networks, a move that is likely to be met with retaliation.

Uber said revenue fell 29 percent in the second quarter because people traveled less, but food deliveries soared.

Creators in Los Angeles say that hosting and posting about big social gatherings is part of their job, coronavirus or no.

The group started out as an online discussion of hobbies, schoolwork and sometimes politics. But then it was infiltrated by an informer for Russia’s all-powerful security services.