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This story is part of Elections 2020 , CNET's coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. It's onto New Hampshire. After the confusing and frustrating Iowa caucuses , which were marred by glitches in an app designed to count the results , the Democrats vying to be their party's candidate for the White House this November are turning their attention to the northeast. On Tuesday, the Granite State holds the first primary in the US. A host of technology policies are among issues, including health care, climate change and immigration, the candidates will be campaigning on. In the highly polarized political climate, it's often easy to overlook that there's a lot of agreement on broad tech concerns. Democrats and Republicans agree online platforms like Amazon , Google and Facebook are too powerful and need to be reined in. They also believe the digital divide between rural and urban America needs to be closed , and that we need some net neutrality … [Read more...] about As New Hampshire primary nears, here are the biggest tech issues on the campaign trail

With CBS All Access morphing into Paramount Plus in just over a week, the company is announcing a new subscriber milestone for its streaming platforms: nearly 30 million global subscribers. The company also has 19.2 million subscribers domestically across its platforms, CBS All Access and Showtime. Pluto TV has 43 million monthly active users globally, and 30.1 million domestically. ViacomCBS CEO made the announcement ahead of today’s Paramount Plus event as part of its fourth quarter earnings. The last time CEO Bob Bakish previously reported subscriber numbers in November, noting that CBS All Access and Showtime had a combined subscriber base of 17.9 million subscribers domestically, up 73 percent year over year. Comparatively, some of ViacomCBS’s biggest competitors are lightyears ahead. Disney Plus is closing in on 100 million subscribers , and Netflix has a global subscriber base of 203 million customers. While both those streaming services are in international territories, … [Read more...] about ViacomCBS touts nearly 30 million global subscribers just before Paramount Plus launches

Imagine for a moment that you work remotely—as so many now do in the COVID era—from a comfortable spare bedroom in your New Jersey home. Your employer is nominally based in New York City, but thanks to the pandemic, you didn't even cross the Hudson River last year. So how is it that New York claims you owe it a pile of cash for state taxes? Maybe this doesn't sound terrible; after all, New York's tax rates don't differ so dramatically from New Jersey's. But imagine instead that you took the opportunity provided by telecommuting to move to a "no income tax" state like Texas. Come tax time, you are planning on a big fat nothingburger of a state tax bill. And yet, New York could still claim state tax on your earnings. Now we're talking a serious—and perhaps completely unplanned—financial hit. Welcome, telecommuters, to the nightmare that can result when you and the state disagree about "where" you work. Butts in seats Broadly speaking, you pay income tax not only to the federal … [Read more...] about Working from home now? Your 2020 state tax situation could suck