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Enlarge / If you're not already an Amazon or Whole Foods grocery delivery customer, don't try to sign up now; it won't work. reader comments 33 with 29 posters participatingShare this storyAs many consumers stay at home, limiting…

Enlarge / An Amazon Prime-branded delivery van and driver. reader comments 5 with 5 posters participatingShare this storyAs the novel coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, an otherwise marginalized class of workers is suddenly in the…

Emily de La Bruyère Contributor Emily de La Bruyère is co-founder of Horizon Advisory, a strategy consultancy focused on documenting the military, economic, and technological implications of China’s approach to global competition.…

reader comments 32 with 30 posters participatingShare this storyIn a bold and ambitious collaboration, Apple and Google are developing a smartphone platform that tries to track the spread of the novel coronavirus at scale and at the…

Enlarge / A student studying on his laptop with two friends after classes were cancelled.Phillipe Francois | Getty Imagesreader comments 49 with 37 posters participatingShare this storyLike many students around the world, Nora Medina…

reader comments 28 with 20 posters participatingShare this storyCiting the misrouting of US Internet traffic, malicious hacking and control by the Chinese government, a group of US executive agencies are recommending the FCC revoke the…

Enlarge / A Frontier Communications van. reader comments 41 with 33 posters participatingShare this storyFrontier Communications needs a lesson in how to redact documents. Frontier is trying to hide large portions of an audit report…

reader comments 33 with 24 posters participatingShare this storyThe US Senate has become the latest organization to tell its members not to use Zoom because of concerns about data security on the video conferencing platform that has…

reader comments 37 with 27 posters participatingShare this storyThe sharp growth in residential-broadband traffic seen during the pandemic is starting to level off, new data shows. While Internet speeds have slowed somewhat in many…

Enlarge / Security and privacy protip: Don't do your videoconference in the middle of an airport. reader comments 8 with 6 posters participatingShare this storyZoom's meteoric rise to prominence as the go-to teleconference tool of the…