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Tell Congress: To save America, your digital rights matter more than TikTok’s

For many technology critics, especially patriotic ones, the passage of the House bill banning TikTok is cause for celebration. But the most important laws to keep America in the digital age are very different. It hasn’t even been drafted yet — and if Congress keeps an eye on the TikTok soap opera, it never will. […]

Biden campaign launches digital ad with Trump’s ‘blood bath’ comments

President Biden’s re-election campaign has launched a digital ad highlighting former President Donald Trump’s comments that there would be a “bloodbath” if he is not elected, as well as other rhetoric from his Republican rivals. short advertisement President Trump told his supporters, “If I don’t win, it’s going to be a disaster. It’s going to […]

How Baby Boomers became unlikely digital addicts

Millennials, Zoomers, and Gen A, the first “iPad kid” generation, are more susceptible to screen addiction, but it’s perhaps even more so among baby boomers. Not bad in terms of frequency, but not bad in actuality. While 25-year-olds, or even 15-year-olds, will blithely ignore you and scroll, text, or go back and forth on TikTok […]

GOP blasts consumer agency over push to regulate digital wallets, payment apps

House Republicans attacked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) during a hearing Wednesday over proposed rules that would regulate financial services such as digital wallets and payment apps. The agency released a proposal to supervise nonbank financial technology in November, with CFPB Director Rohit Chopra saying the rule would “help ensure that large technology companies […]

Biden cuts digital ad attacking Trump over entitlements ‘cuts’ comment

President Biden’s campaign on Monday released a new digital ad targeting former President Trump over his recent comments about “cutting” eligibility. Advertisement We featured interviews Speaking with President Trump on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday, host Joe Kernen asked if the former president’s views had changed, saying, “There’s a lot that can be done.” There […]

SATs are now digital and 1 hour shorter, high school students have mixed feelings

SAT season begins this weekend, and for the first time, students across the country will take the SAT using computers and tablets rather than the pencils they’ve used since the college entrance exam was introduced nearly a century ago. Although it’s unfamiliar territory for today’s digital natives, some are still beginning to embrace the idea. […]

Fully digital SAT’s new ‘adaptive’ sections dumb down college admissions test

Put down your pencil and turn it on. Students taking the SAT this week will experience some high-tech changes as the university entrance exam becomes fully digital and employs an “adaptive” testing methodology. This means that the difficulty of the questions faced by students will vary depending on their performance in previous parts of the […]

Europe’s Digital Markets Act forces tech giants to make changes to be ‘fairer’

LONDON — Europeans scrolling through their phones and computers this week will have new choices about their default browser and search engine, where they download iPhone apps and how they use their personal online data. These are some of the changes required under the Digital Markets Act, which classifies six tech companies as “gatekeepers” including […]