Ed Markey

For weeks, people have wondered if Elon Musk wanted to break Twitter. It looks like he may succeed soon.Illustration: Sergei Elagin (Shutterstock)Twitter employees are abandoning Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner and self-described ‘chief twit,’ in droves after his messy first few weeks at the blue bird app.Earlier this week, Musk presented his new employees with an ultimatum: commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter, which involved “working long hours at high intensity” and delivering only “exceptional” performance, or leave with…

Pharma company Eli Lilly has been criticized heavily in the past for the price of insulin, but the company has claimed it is not profiting off those increases.Photo: Darron Cummings (AP)As much as last week’s $8 Twitter verification chaos warped many public faces into gross parodies of their sterilized brands, one pharma company that has long hiked the price of a life-saving drug was caught in the crossfire and may have lost millions because of one fake post. New reports reveal just how much chaos one single tweet from a…

Watch who you troll, Elon.Photo: Britta Pedersen-Pool (Getty Images)Although at times it seems like no one can stop Twitter owner Elon Musk from doing whatever he wants with the platform, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey recently reminded the billionaire that there is still something called “laws,” telling him on Sunday to fix his companies “or Congress will.” Markey’s beef with Musk began last Friday, when the Democratic senator tweeted at the billionaire and informed him that a Washington Post reporter was able to create a…

The Twitter logo is seen on the awning of the building that houses the Twitter office in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Photo: Mary Altaffer (AP)A hodgepodge of Twitter’s worst individuals were sporting shiny blue check marks on Friday, including notorious punching bag and literal neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, thanks to the ill-conceived money grab of the platform’s new owner, Elon Musk.In addition to Spencer, who’s argued on behalf of turning the U.S. into a white ethnostate, Musk’s new blue check marks are being donned…

Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images)An alarming share of drivers using partially automated driver assistance features overestimate their vehicles’ supposed self-driving capabilities. Around one in four Tesla Autopilot drivers and an even higher 53% of Cadillac Super Cruise users surveyed in a new report said they feel “comfortable” treating their vehicles as full-self driving even as those systems technically fall far short of meeting that characterization.The survey results, collected by the Insurance Institute for…

Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images)Amazon-owned home surveillance camera king Ring is making good on its promise to bring end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to a wider range of its devices. This week, the company added the encryption secretive for audio and video to its lower-cost battery-powered doorbells and cameras which were left out of the company’s previous E2EE rollout. The addition marks Ring’s latest attempt to correct course on a product history littered with privacy and security blunders.Privacy advocates and…

Photo: Jack Taylor (Getty Images)The Brazilian government’s going to battle with Apple over its chargers, or more aptly, its lack of them. On Tuesday, Brazil’s Justice Ministry reportedly hit the smartphone giant for 12.275 million reais (or around $2.38 million) and ordered Apple to cease selling models that don’t ship with a charger. That sudden cancellation, according toReuters, would affect Apple’s iPhone 12 and 13 models. The iPhone 12 hasn’t shipped with a charger since 2020.Apple and other device makers claim the…

Taiwan wants to ensure its partners have reliable supplies of semiconductors, or "democracy chips", President Tsai Ing-wen told the governor of the US state of Indiana, saying China's threats mean fellow democracies have to cooperate. Governor Eric Holcomb, a Republican, is making the third trip to Taiwan this month by a US delegation after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited briefly, infuriating China, which views Taiwan as its own territory. A week after Pelosi's visit, five US lawmakers, led by Senator Ed Markey,…

Photo: Chip Somodevilla (Getty Images) Do you remember net neutrlaity? It may seem like ancient history now, but there was a time when regulators actually came together to put in place guardrails preventing greedy telecoms from segregating internet access to the highest bidders. Then Trump and Ajit Pai happened. Now, nearly five years after the Federal Communications Commission voted to gut net neutrality protections, a handful of Democratic lawmakers are working to codify the protections into law. This week Democratic S…

It’s always a gamble leaving the house with your smartphone. Even as batteries get bigger, the threat of being out in the world with little time left on your device can create a panic akin to witnessing a natural disaster. And the worst part is when you go to someone to ask for a charging cord only to find that they don’t have your cable type!This week on Gadgettes, we’ll womansplain how Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are working to eliminate this headache for…