News
2021
March
20
- Conoce a los jóvenes inversionistas del sur de Los Ángeles ansiosos por construir riqueza en su comunidad. A la 1 a.m. suena la primera alarma. Blanca López se sacude el sueño. Durante los últimos ocho meses, se ha estado repitiendo lo mismo.
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- Amazon lanza servicio de salud para empresas. Amazon anunció el miércoles el lanzamiento de sus servicios de salud, diciendo que ofrecerá su programa de telemedicina Amazon Care a empresas en todo Estados Unidos.
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- Nest Hub de Google monitorea el sueño del usuario. Google lanzó un dispositivo que monitoreará cuánto duerme el usuario, una novedad que ayudaría a quienes tienen problemas para conciliar el sueño pero a la vez suscita
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- Social Security imposters use fake badges to fool victims. The Social Security Administration warns that phone scammers are creating “fake versions” of identification badges. “The scammers will text or email photos of the fake badges to convince potential victims of their
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- Coronavirus relief could net you $50 toward your broadband bill. A new bill, The Accessible, Affordable Internet for All Act, set to be introduced Thursday in the U.S. House and Senate, devotes more than $94 billion to connect currently unserved and underserved communities with
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- America, your privacy settings are all wrong. Americans have become inured to the relentless collection of their personal information. Every minute a person spends online helps countless companies build a thicker dossier about that person. One straightforward solution is to let people
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- Amazon’s new rotating, follow-you camera is useful—and invasive. The covid-19 Zoom boom has turned us into camera operators. Making sure everyone’s face can be seen in the videoconference is a daily struggle. Along comes Amazon’s new Echo Show 10,
- Por qué las aplicaciones de pago no son tan seguras como las tarjetas de crédito. Puede ser que CashApp, Venmo y Zelle sean convenientes, pero no ofrecen la protección contra el fraude que ofrecen Mastercard y Visa.
- Europeos consiguen el “derecho a reparar” objetos eléctricos. Las empresas que venden neveras, lavadoras, secadores de pelo o televisores en la Unión Europea tendrán que asegurarse de que sus electrodomésticos pueden repararse durante hasta 10 años,
February
27
- Government agencies increasingly are accessing private information. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have tapped a private database containing hundreds of millions of phone, water, electricity and other utility records while pursuing immigration violations, according to public documents uncovered by
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- California can enforce its internet equal access law. A federal judge ruled that California can for the first time enforce its tough net neutrality law, clearing the way for the state to ban internet providers from slowing down or blocking access to websites
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- Civil rights groups ask Biden to oppose facial recognition. The American Civil Liberties Union and more than 40 other groups urged President Biden in a letter to freeze federal use of facial recognition and block federal funds from being used by state and local governments
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- How the GameStop frenzy sabotaged a bid to ‘democratize’ finance. The episode with Robinhood Financial has unearthed a growing sentiment on the left: “Fintech” is just a fancy word for everything they already hate about finance.
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- Lacking a Lifeline: How help to pay low-income Americans' phone bills failed. The coronavirus has reinforced the Internet as the fabric of modern American life, a luxury-turned-necessity for a generation now forced to work, learn and communicate primarily through the Web. But it also has laid bare
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- Tips on how to master the vaccine-appointment website. Starting this week, there will be even more places you need to look for appointments online. Pharmacy chains including CVS and Walgreens are beginning to distribute vaccine supply they’re getting directly from the
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- App de audio Clubhouse llama la atención de CEOs y usuarios. La aplicación de audio Clubhouse fue lanzada hace menos de un año y ya ha llamado la atención de peces gordos de la industria tecnológica e incluso
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- Consumer protection agency investigating Venmo. The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is investigating money transfer app Venmo over the way it handles collections, a new regulatory filing shows. First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the filing shows Venmo owner PayPal
- Koji, la herramienta que ayuda a vender productos y servicios a los seguidores en redes sociales. Koji ofrece plantillas personalizables para interfaces de venta, recaudación de fondos y juegos que pueden publicarse fácilmente en las redes sociales.
January
30
- Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false.. You go to your iPhone’s App Store to download a game. Under a new “App Privacy” label added last month, there’s a blue check mark, signaling that the app
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- ‘Es una locura’: los pequeños inversionistas conmocionan a Wall Street con las acciones de GameStop. Las acciones de las tiendas de videojuegos se han disparado 1700 por ciento mientras millones de pequeños inversionistas, incitados por las redes sociales, emplean una táctica clásica de Wall Street
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