The Senate Judiciary Committee voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to advance the Open App Markets Act, an antitrust bill that targets big tech. Bill S.2710 addresses Apple and Google in particular, who oversee the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, which together mediate access to the vast majority of apps used by smartphone users. The bipartisan bill is sponsored by Senators Richard Blumenthal, Amy Klobuchar, and Marsha Blackburn. The committee voted 20-2 to advance the legislation, with Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tyllis being the only dissenting votes within the Judiciary Committee. The new legislation is an attempt to curtail the power of the two major app store providers, who have a long history of using their domination of the market to exert power over information, content, and capital on the internet. Apple temporarily banned both Tumblr and Telegram in 2018, claiming that they did so because of the availability … » Read full article

Multinational study finds alarming link between CT scans in youths and cancer risks
by: Patrick Tims, staff writer | November 17, 2023 (NaturalHealth365) Repeated X-rays are widely acknowledged to subject the human body to potentially harmful radiation levels. However, a lesser-known fact is that CT