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The president of a Silicon Valley medical technology company was charged Tuesday with misleading investors by falsely claiming the company had developed a government-approved blood test for the new coronavirus — the first criminal securities fraud prosecution related to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal officials said. Mark Schena, the president of Ar...

Known for sparking curiosity in children, San Francisco’s Exploratorium is now the birthplace of a very grown-up effort to manufacture personal protective equipment on a massive scale. In Sunnyvale, Maker Nexus has another set of open-source designs that volunteers are cranking out by the truckload.

Facebook employees are using Twitter to register their frustration over CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to leave up posts by President Donald Trump that suggested protesters in Minneapolis could be shot.

Apple and Google have released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus

Wells Fargo is directing employees to delete TikTok from their work phones amid growing concerns over security and privacy from the short-form Chinese-owned video app, NBC News reports. “We have identified a small number of Wells Fargo employees with corporate-owned devices who had installed the TikTok application on their device,” Well...

Amazon says it mistakenly sent an email to employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones

A two-year audit of Facebook’s civil rights record found “serious setbacks” that have marred the social network’s progress on matters such as hate speech, misinformation and bias

The leaders of four civil rights groups called for advertisers to continue boycotting Facebook on Tuesday after a meeting with the company’s top executives that left them feeling unconvinced of the social media giant’s commitment to stopping hate speech.

Facebook is slated to meet today with the organizers of an ad boycott group, which had caused hundreds of large businesses to pull ads from the social media giant’s platform over its lack of regulation on hate speech.

TikTok says it will stop operations in Hong Kong after the city enacted a sweeping national security law last week

Frontier Communications, which provides internet service for rural and suburban areas in California, Florida, Connecticut, and 23 other states, is currently experiencing outages.

A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders have now pivoted to new targets.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is feverishly working to develop a social media force that can compete with President Donald Trump’s well-established digital “army” of meme makers and political influencers who retweet campaign messages in support of him