WASHINGTON — Hacking a local election system in the United States wouldn’t be easy, and secretly altering votes on a scale massive enough to change the outcome of the presidential race would be impossible, election officials have said, thanks to decentralized systems, paper records for nearly all ballots, exhaustive reviews, legal due process and decades … Read more
Amazon will report results for the third quarter after the bell Thursday. Here’s what analysts are expecting: Earnings: $1.14 per share expected by LSEG Revenue: $157.2 billion expected by LSEG Amazon Web Services: $27.5 billion, according to StreetAccount Advertising: $14.3 billion, according to StreetAccount The company warned in its most recent earnings report that sales … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a smartphone, as he makes a keynote speech at the Meta Connect annual event, at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S. September 25, 2024. Manuel Orbegozo | Reuters Threads, Meta‘s rival to Elon Musk’s X app, now has nearly 275 million monthly users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday. … Read more
Search giant Google wants people to use its navigation app for more than just finding directions and avoiding traffic. The tech giant is adding generative AI features to Google Maps so people can easily get recommendations for places to go and activities to do. With 2 billion people using Google Maps every month, the company … Read more
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Google Maps is heading down a new road steered by artificial intelligence. The shift announced Thursday will bring more of the revolutionary AI technology that Google already has been baking into its dominant search engine to the digital maps service that the internet company launched nearly 20 years ago as part … Read more
A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles – a two followed by 36 zeroes – for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Despite being one of the world’s wealthiest companies, that is considerably more than the $2 trillion … Read more
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at a product launch event in San Francisco on Sept. 26, 2019. Philip Pacheco | AFP via Getty Images Uber reported third-quarter results on Thursday that beat Wall Street’s expectations for revenue but missed on analysts’ projections for gross bookings. Shares of the company were down more than 5% pre-market … Read more
ALBANY, N.Y. — A semiconductor research facility in upstate New York was selected as one of three national technology centers and will receive up to $825 million in funding as part of a broader federal effort to boost the United States’ competitiveness in the industry. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer made the announcement Thursday. The Albany … Read more
Marco Bello | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Block, the payments company owned by tech billionaire Jack Dorsey has launched its corporate card service in the U.K. in a bid to deepen its expansion into the country and take on big incumbents like American Express. The firm’s business-focused payments arm, Square, told CNBC that it … Read more
TOKYO — Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings’ former chairperson, who led the emergency response after a meltdown at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and was accused of being responsible for failing to prevent the disaster as top management, has died, with his trials still pending. He was 84. Tsunehisa Katsumata died on Oct. 21, TEPCO … Read more