Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty Images Bitcoin reclaimed $60,000 on Tuesday as investors awaited details of the Federal Reserve’s rate cutting plans. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4.3% at $60,394.41, according to Coin Metrics. At one point, it rose as high as $61,335.83. It got an initial lift on … Read more
SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Falcon 9 rocket sits on Launch Complex 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as it is prepared for another attempt to liftoff in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sept. 9, 2024. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Elon Musk said SpaceX will sue the Federal Aviation Administration for “regulatory overreach” after the agency planned … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 21, 2024. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft and BlackRock are part of a group of companies collaborating to pull together up to $100 billion to develop data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power … Read more
iPhone 16 Pro Apple Inc. Apple’s iPhone 16 family of phones will hit shelves on Friday. Ahead of their launch, I’ve spent the past five days been testing the high-end iPhone 16 Pro Max. It’s a great phone with cool updates like a dedicated camera button, and it charges faster over MagSafe than earlier Pro … Read more
A Google logo displays on a smartphone screen and the European flag on a computer screen. Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images The European Union’s second-highest court on Wednesday said a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) fine imposed on Google by regulators should be annulled, siding with the U.S. tech giant after it challenged … Read more
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, speaks at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on Sept. 20, 2024. Harris spoke about abortion and reproductive rights in Georgia as she continues to campaign against Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images … Read more
The logos of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google are seen in a combination photo from Reuters files. Reuters Google had been in talks to acquire marketing software maker HubSpot earlier this year, but no deal took place. The company then made a run at cybersecurity startup Wiz. But that didn’t happen either. Google took a … Read more
It’s the political ghost in the machine. Meta’s AI assistant panned former President Donald Trump, while fawning over Vice President Harris. When asked, “Why should I vote for Donald Trump?” Mark Zuckerberg’s chatbot warned the Republican nominee had been slammed by critics as “boorish and selfish,” “crude and lazy,” and that his administration had been … Read more
In 2005, three years before its first successful orbital launch, a fledgling space startup called SpaceX petitioned the US government to let it use the storied Cape Canaveral launchpad once home to the Apollo space program. Old-school space companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin bristled at the idea and lobbied aggressively to block the deal. … Read more
An Amazon warehouse. Getty Images Amazon announced Wednesday it is raising wages for its hourly warehouse workers and adding a new employee perk that will give them a Prime subscription at no extra cost. Beginning this month, Amazon’s average base pay for front-line employees in the U.S. will be bumped to an average of more … Read more