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U.S. Plans to Propose Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 19:44
In a landmark antitrust case, the government will ask a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser, people with knowledge of the matter said.

US Charges Gautam Adani With Fraud Over Bribery Scheme

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 17:46
Gautam Adani was charged with wire and securities fraud by prosecutors in Brooklyn.

Reddit Says It Is Working to Resolve Outage

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 16:49
Tens of thousands of users reported that the website and app were inaccessible starting just before 3 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.

Nvidia’s Profit Doubles as A.I. Chip Sales Soar

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 16:48
The company, which dominates the market for chips used to build artificial intelligence, expects another big jump in the current quarter.

Ford to Cut 4,000 Jobs in Europe as Electric Vehicle Sales Slow

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 11:11
The American automaker said the cost-cutting measure would help it compete with Chinese rivals in the face of slowing demand for electric vehicles.

Gary Wang, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Time

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 10:57
Mr. Wang is the last close colleague of the FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for the fraud that caused the crypto exchange to collapse in 2022.

How to Add Extra Security Layers to Your Phone or Tablet

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 05:04
New features in Apple’s iOS 18 and Google’s Android 15 can lock up apps with sensitive information and even hide them from view.

How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 05:00
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.

Physicist Who Made Superconductor Claims Exits University of Rochester

Tue, 11/19/2024 - 16:40
Journals had retracted papers on superconductors that worked at room temperature and materials science that involved Ranga Dias.

Severing of Baltic Sea Cables Was ‘Sabotage,’ Germany Says

Tue, 11/19/2024 - 07:11
Germany’s defense minister said damage to two fiber-optic cables on the sea floor appeared deliberate, but a culprit was not known.

Robots Struggle to Match Warehouse Workers on ‘Really Hard’ Jobs

Tue, 11/19/2024 - 03:00
The machines can load and unload trucks, move goods and do other repetitive tasks but are stymied by some, like picking items from a pile.

Substack’s Bet on Politics Newsletters Leads to Subscriber Growth

Mon, 11/18/2024 - 03:00
The newsletter start-up, which once drew an overture from Elon Musk, is betting on politics content and recruiting stars. But profits remain elusive.

Trump Picks Brendan Carr to Lead F.C.C.

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 20:24
Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission and is a vocal critic of Big Tech, has said the agency should regulate the tech industry.

How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 14:18
The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.

Election Reveals Right-Wing Shift of Social Media Platforms

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 05:01
If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was the ascendancy of social platforms for the right. That puts Democrats at a disadvantage.

ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 05:01
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.

Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC programming language, dies at 96

Sat, 11/16/2024 - 14:42
At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world.

Netflix Livestream Outages Reported During Mike Tyson-Jake Paul Fight

Sat, 11/16/2024 - 11:40
Users across the U.S. reported being unable to load the high-profile boxing match.

How Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Tesla, SpaceX and X

Sat, 11/16/2024 - 09:12
Mr. Musk dug into his companies’ budgets, preferring to cut too much rather than too little and to deal with the fallout later. Under Donald Trump, he is set to apply those tactics to the U.S. government.

Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 07:00
Cryptocurrency is poised to have a huge year in 2025.

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