President-elect Donald Trump chose Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that regulates broadcasting, telecommunications, and broadband.
Here’s what you need to know about the cabinet pick.
He’s a longtime FCC member
Carr has history with the FCC. He’s worked at the agency since 2012, including as its general counsel. Trump appointment Carr to commis
The U.S. antitrust watchdogs that pounced on Big Tech and deterred corporate deal-making throughout President Joe Biden’s administration may be kept on a shorter leash by Donald Trump after he returns to the
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications, and
A new, AI-powered platform called Aggie wants to manage your brand’s social media.
Aggie is a product of Audience Genomics, which has since 2018 offered audience data analytics to big brands like Universal Studios, AMC Television, and Fenty Beauty. The company soon also worked with private equity investors to evaluate the quality of marketing by companies they were considering investing in, which led to advising some small and med
Four years after Quibi’s $1.75 billion crashout, its successors are flying high.
Apps like DramaBox and ReelShort are betting on short-form. They present feature-length films, diced into consumable minutes-long bites akin to a TikTok. The more clips you want to see, the more you’ll have to pay. And it’s worked: Both apps report over $20 million in revenue from in-app purchases, and have climbed the chart
Elon Musk has big plans for his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) once Donald Trump takes the White House in January. Prior to the election, the Tesla CEO said he would help cut $2 trillion from the federal budget. “This will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!” Musk said in a statement. (DOGE, which Musk will co-lea
Following recent questions about child safety issues on the platform, Roblox announced Monday a number of changes designed to protect young users and increase parental control over the content they see.
To start, users under 13 will no longer be able to direct-message other users, outside of particular experiences and games. And by defaul
The weeks after an election are open season for pet political theories. An electorate as massive and sprawling as America’s will never swing on just one thing. But that’s no fun to admit. So why not share your one thing—you can be as right as anyone else. But among the Monday-morning quarterbacks of social media, one strain of analysis seems poised to rule them all: that liberals need to find their own version of Jo
Some 2.3 million U.S. adults over 65—more than 4%—have a diagnosis of dementia. But even without a diagnosis, a certain amount of cognitive decline is normal as age sets in.
And whether it’s due to fear of cognitive decline or noticing lapses in cognition when we are stressed, many of us have had moments when we thought we could use an extra cognitive boost.
The good news is research has shown that people can ma
On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump named Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as cochairs of a new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. This appointment allows Musk the opportunity to simultaneously do two things that are very important to him: publicly complain about government policies that cost him money, and tweet deeply unfunny jokes about the fact that the acronym is also the name