Technology

According to a post on a dark web site, hackers are being accused of extorting hundreds of companies around the world late Sunday night. They demanded $70 million in ransom to recover their data.The request was made on a...

President Joe Biden signed Friday's executive order, which targeted anticompetitive practices within tech, health care, and other areas of the economy. He stated that it would strengthen America's ideal of "true capitalism depends upon fair and open competition."Biden stated...

In real-time, the tech takes into account hundreds of variablesWalmart, a big-box retailer, is using artificial intelligence (AI), to help customers and personal shoppers. It also helps with the still-increasing online grocery demand in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.Srini...

Ron DeSantis (Republican governor of Florida) called on President Joe Biden this week to approve a plan to send the internet to Cubans via high-altitude balloons.IS INTERNET AVAILABLE BY BALLOON?Yes. Yes. It ended this project in January because it was not financially viable.Loon...

The labor movement is getting a new lease of life thanks to a recommendation to nullify election results from an Amazon union vote in Bessemer (Alabama).Monday's recommendation was made by the National Labor Relations Board hearing officer. He stated...

Ask for a roast beef sandwich from an Arby's drive thru east of Los Angeles. You may be speaking to Tori, an artificially intelligent voice assistant. She will take your order and forward it to the line cooks.Amir Siddiqi...

Jennifer Sherlock met a few men through dating apps early in the coronavirus epidemic. She said that the dates were "weird" because they were unmasked, distant, and out in nature.Sherlock found it reckless that a date kept their identities secret...

Bill Spence became suddenly and catastrophically ill in March 2017. One part of his pancreas was destroyed. His gall bladder was damaged. The doctors discovered that he had kidney cancer when he arrived at the emergency room. His doctor advised him to wait...

China's most famous social media site has removed accounts that were created on LGBT topics by students and other non-government organizations. This raises concerns about the tightening of control by China's ruling Communist Party over gay and lesbian content.WeChat...

European Union and British authorities opened dual antitrust investigations Friday into whether Facebook distorts competition in the classified advertising marketplace using data to compete against rival services.German officials, meanwhile, launched a new evaluation of Google using awakened forces to...