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President Joe Biden has been in office for nearly a month. He hit the ground running on his legislative agenda, pushing for Congress to pass a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package . And now he's preparing to introduce his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, which promises to include funding for broadband deployment to help close the digital divide. Biden generally kept mum on the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which ended Saturday with an acquittal on the charge of inciting an insurrection. Instead, Biden stayed focused his biggest and most immediate challenge: the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden's top priority has been the vaccination of Americans against the deadly virus, which has claimed the lives of more than 485,000 Americans . He has set a goal of administering at least 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office. With current vaccines requiring two shots, that would mean fully vaccinating 50 million Americans. The pandemic has … [Read more...] about The Biden presidency: What it means for tech

Disney 's plan for streaming Marvel 's Black Widow after it hits theaters May 7 remained a mystery Thursday, as the company completed its investor day without detailing any adjusted release plans for the movie or other Marvel flicks next year, like Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Eternals . The fogginess around Marvel releases means Disney, which has racked up more epic blockbusters than any other in the past five years, is still uncertain about aggressively bringing its biggest-budget movies to streaming while the pandemic continues to keep film fans out of cinema seats. "Over the 100 titles that we announced today, 80% of them are going first to Disney Plus, which I think says something about our pivot over to Disney Plus," Disney CEO Bob Chapek said Thursday. "But at the same time, we had $13 billion of box office last year. That's obviously not something to sneeze at... We build [Disney] franchises through the theatrical-exhibition window." "So for us, … [Read more...] about When will Disney Plus stream Black Widow? We still don’t know

We learned an awful lot about Twitter in 2013. With a tell-all book , the company's highly anticipated IPO , and more than 500 million daily tweets from Twitter users, little was left to the imagination. See also: 25 Twitter Accounts to Make You Laugh We saw, once again, how quickly Twitter can spread news, both accurate and damaging. We saw the power a tweet can exert when a brand uses it right ( Oreo's "Dunk in the Dark" during the Super Bowl), and the anguish it can cause when a brand uses it wrong (we're looking at you, Epicurious ). For all of the content that Twitter brought forth this year, it was the first tell-all book about the company that may have given us the most food for thought when it comes to sending 140-character updates. (More on that below.) From the laudable to the laughable, here's a look at the tweets, story lines, and business decisions that made 2013 Twitter's biggest year yet. The Tweets Top Tweets of 2013 Twitter unveiled the … [Read more...] about The Year in Twitter: Top Milestones of 2013