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The White House, Uber and Lyft team up for free rides to COVID-19 vaccine sites
The program will start soon and run until July 4th.
Biden pledges to cut US greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030
The US has vowed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 ahead of President Biden's global summit on climate change.
Biden's first budget proposal would fight chip shortages with US factories
The Biden White House's first budget proposal includes funding for domestic manufacturing to tackle chip shortages.
US plans 'a mix of actions' against Russia over SolarWinds cyberattack
The government will reportedly start carrying those out within the next three weeks.
Big Tech critic and net neutrality advocate Tim Wu is joining the White House
The man who coined net neutrality is heading back to work for the government.
White House turns to Silicon Valley for help with COVID vaccine rollout
The US is in talks with Amazon to help roll out the COVID-19 vaccine.
Joe Biden will tackle global chip shortage with executive order
The Biden administration is planning “aggressive steps” to alleviate the global semiconductor shortage, Bloomberg reports.
President Biden brings back weekly addresses with a podcast-like format
President Biden is bringing back weekly addresses, but they'll adopt a podcast-style format that focuses on the internet rather than radio.
How Twitter will transition presidential accounts after Inauguration Day
Kamala Harris' husband, Douglas Emhoff, will become the first @SecondGentleman.
Twitter will reset the @POTUS follower count to zero after Biden takes office
The White House and press secretary accounts will also lose their followers.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump's order banning TikTok downloads
A US judge has ruled that a ban on TikTok ordered by the Trump administration will not go into effect as planned today. The decision means that the app will remain available to Americans for new downloads on Android and iOS stores.
US considers blocking deals with China's largest chip maker
The US is considering blacklisting China's largest chip maker, SMIC, in a move that could escalate an ongoing trade war.
Twitter hides Trump tweet for potentially discouraging voting
Twitter has once again flagged and hidden one of President Trump’s tweets, this time “for making misleading health claims that could potentially dissuade people from participation in voting.”
White House budget proposal would hike AI and quantum funding by 30 percent
A White House proposal for the 2021 budget would raise funding for AI and quantum computing by 30 percent.
TikTok vows to fight White House ban with ‘all remedies available’
TikTok has issued a statement on the White House’s plan to ban its popular app, saying it was “shocked” by the executive order and that it will respond in court, if necessary. The order, issued yesterday by President Trump, means that TikTok could disappear in the US in 45 days if nothing changes.
The Trojan Horse in Trump’s anti-Twitter executive order
The order’s gist centers on the White House belief (or rather, tactic) that fact-checking the White House or its allies constitutes anti-conservative bias. So yeah, here we go with Section 230 (again). FOSTA was vague and sought to neuter Section 230, too.
Twitter hides Trump and White House tweets over 'glorification of violence'
Twitter has hidden one of two recent tweets from US President Donald Trump, saying it “violated the Twitter rules about glorifying violence.”
White House said to be in talks with Intel, TSMC for US chip factories
The White House reportedly hopes to reduce its dependence on Asia for processors by having Intel and TSMC set up US factories.
IBM shares AI tools to better understand and treat COVID-19
It has released a series of new tools to aggregate data, help researchers explore potential therapies, advance the study of newly sequenced SARS-CoV-2 genomes and make the latest info available to healthcare professionals. Its AI deep search tool is ingesting data from the White House, a coalition of research groups and licensed databases from the DrugBank, Clinicaltrials.gov and GenBank. The cloud-based research tool is a repository of genes, proteins and other molecules from sequenced viral and bacterial organisms, and it’s meant to help researchers identify molecular targets necessary for drug design, test development and treatment.
Apple shows a White House coronavirus PSA to App Store users
Tech giants have been displaying prominent coronavirus alerts in various places, but Apple is stepping things up with its latest addition. Users have noticed that Apple is now displaying a White House public service announcement at the top of the App Store for US customers. Tap it and White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci offers guidance on the "dos and don'ts" of social distancing