This week is big news in tech: Uber behaved badly. A huge document dump reveals that it deliberately broke laws to roll out its services… Read More »How can your data be used to collect costs from you?
Behavior that we would consider intelligent is strangely widespread in the animal kingdom. Animals with very different brains from ours – some kind of octopus… Read More »Brain Size vs Body Size and the Roots of Intelligence
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For years, scientists in labs from Silicon Valley to Boston have searched for an elusive potion of chemicals, minerals and metals… Read More »Advanced batteries move from labs to mass production
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated a call on China to comply with a 2016 arbitration ruling invalidating Beijing’s massive… Read More »US warns it will defend ally if China breaks sea rule
In a new scam targeting restaurants, criminals leave negative reviews on restaurants’ Google pages as a bargaining chip to extort digital gift cards. Restaurateurs from… Read More »The Google One-Star Review Scam Targeting Restaurants
The most ambitious tax reform in a century faced another setback on Monday when the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, which oversees global negotiations,… Read More »A global deal to tax large corporations is delayed for a year
Getty Elon Musk fired back at Donald Trump Monday night in a series of scathing tweets, urging the former president to give up his ambitions… Read More »Elon Musk Tears Trump, Says He Should ‘Hang Up His Hat’
enlarge † Image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s first deep field image. NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI More than three decades have… Read More »Webb’s first image reveals fine details of galaxies from billions of years ago
Two years after he founded the largest special purpose company ever, or SPAC, billionaire Bill Ackman has concluded that he will not be able to… Read More »Bill Ackman’s SPAC to Return $4 Billion to Investors
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Twitter was the number two social media company. It never grew to the size and scale of a Facebook or… Read More »How Elon Musk Corrupted Twitter And Made It Worse
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Paolo Banchero showed off the Orlando Magic in his two Summer League appearances. And the Magic decided that was enough. The… Read More »Banchero’s Summer League is over; Jefferson picks up a whistle
A number of executives have already left the company after Musk launched his takeover bid, affecting countless others further down the food chain. “Internally, the… Read More »While Elon Musk Walks, Twitter Employees Say No One Is In Charge
Media outlets have only just begun to dig up all the dirt buried in the so-called Uber files. The more than 124,000 confidential files collected… Read More »Uber emails: Exec admits ‘we’re not legal’, another claims we’re all ‘pirates’
Francis X. Clines, a reporter, columnist and foreign correspondent for The New York Times whose news commentary and lyrical profiles of ordinary New Yorkers were… Read More »Francis X. Clines, lyric writer for The Times, dies at 84
