Google has reached an $8 million settlement with Texas over deceptive ads promoting the Pixel 4 smartphone, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today. Google’s… Read More »Google pays $8 million settlement for ‘lying to Texans’, says AG
Last October, construction plans for a colossal semiconductor factory of a major state-backed company in central China went haywire. The Biden administration had escalated the… Read More »‘De-Americanize’: how China is reshaping its chip business
Enlarge / Shareholders of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), take part in a demonstration against the central bank’s investments in the East African Crude Oil… Read More »The challenges and promises of climate litigation
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images My recent article on password keys attracted a lot of interest, with several of the 1,100+ comments raising questions about… Read More »Passkeys may not be for you, but they’re safe and easy – here’s why
A former executive of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, has accused the tech giant of a “culture of lawlessness,” which included stealing content… Read More »Ex-ByteDance Executive Accuses TikTok Parent Company of ‘Lawlessness’
Enlarge / “Backlit” image of Saturn and its rings, taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2006. NASA/Public domain Astronomers long assumed that Saturn’s distinctive rings… Read More »More evidence is emerging that Saturn’s rings are much younger than the planet
Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s advertising chief, was preparing to interview Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, on stage at a conference last month when she received… Read More »Linda Yaccarino is Twitter’s new CEO, confirms Elon Musk
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. Benj Edwards / Stable Spread On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announced that it has… Read More »Anthropic’s Claude AI can now process an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds
China has ordered Tesla, the world’s dominant electric vehicle manufacturer, to recall 1.1 million vehicles, citing a problem with the acceleration and braking systems of… Read More »China orders Tesla to recall 1.1 million vehicles over braking risks
Enlarge / Orbital view of the Utopia Planitia region of Mars. Most of Mars appears to be an endless expanse of alien desert, with no… Read More »Chinese Mars rover sends back images of recent watery crusts
Just over a week after thousands of television and film writers went to work, Netflix is feeling the heat. Late Wednesday night, Netflix abruptly said… Read More »Notable writers find their villain: Netflix
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix a Secure Boot bypass bug used by the BlackLotus bootkit we reported on in March. The… Read More »Microsoft will take almost a year to patch the new 0-day Secure Boot bug
Peloton, the maker of home exercise equipment, said Thursday it was recalling more than two million exercise bikes, an announcement that sent its stock down.… Read More »Peloton shares slide after it recalled two million exercise bikes
Enlarge / Wildfire smoke hovers over the Pacific coast of Northern New South Wales, Australia in September 2019. Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data/Gallo Images via Getty… Read More »Wildfire smoke from Australia fueled “super La Niña” for three years
For more than 50 years, computer chip designers have primarily used one tactic to improve performance: They shrunk electronic components to put more force on… Read More »US focuses on incentive ‘chiplets’ to stay at the forefront of technology
