Watch Live: Tech Executives Testify on Biden Administration Internet Censorship

Executives from Google and Meta testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on internet censorship under the Biden administration on Wednesday, October 29. “The First Amendment is a powerful weapon that protects against government’s efforts to silence its own citizens. However, we have seen the government trample on this right through third parties,…

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effries: I ‘Agree’ with My 2013 Shutdown Criticism, ‘From the Standpoint’ that GOP Should Negotiate

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded to his past criticism of government shutdowns by saying he “agrees with the Hakeem Jeffries of yesterday, from the standpoint of, listen, we’ve said to Republicans, get to the negotiating table, we want to find a bipartisan path forward.” Host…

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Waymo Co-CEO Confident Society Will Accept Robotaxi Fatalities as the Price of Technology Advancing

SFGate reports that during an onstage discussion with TechCrunch’s transportation editor Kirsten Korosec at the annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO of Waymo, addressed the hypothetical scenario of a fatal crash involving a self-driving car. Despite the company’s unwavering focus on safety, Mawakana acknowledged that achieving perfection in autonomous vehicle technology is…

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