U.S. President Joe Biden is applauded as he holds the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act during a signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, June 17, 2021. Carlos Barria | Reuters Big tech companies will observe Juneteenth by offering education resources during the week of the newly official U.S. holiday.
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In this article ROKU Anthony Wood, founder and chief executive officer of Roku Inc. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Roku co-founder and CEO Anthony Wood worked at Netflix in 2007, but he says his company’s cultural similarities to the streaming giant are mostly coincidental. “The culture at Roku was the same before
The Klarna logo displayed on a smartphone. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Europe’s tech sector has already attracted more venture capital investment so far this year than it did throughout the whole of 2020, according to data shared with CNBC. Start-ups in the continent have raised a whopping
David Silver, leader of the reinforcement learning research group at DeepMind, being awarded an honorary “ninth dan” professional ranking for AlphaGo. JUNG YEON-JE | AFP | Getty Images Computer scientists are questioning whether DeepMind, the Alphabet-owned U.K. firm that’s widely regarded as one of the world’s premier AI labs, will ever be able to make
In this article MSFT UBI-FR Bethesda’s Todd Howard introduces Starfield at the 2018 E3 trade show. Christian Petersen | Getty Images The video game industry’s annual trade show went virtual this year, giving publishers a new format to show off upcoming titles. The E3 gaming expo kicked off on Saturday and runs until Tuesday, when
In this article TSLA Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla. Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said the company will resume bitcoin transactions once it confirms there is reasonable clean energy usage by miners. “When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla
In this article MARA When the FBI successfully breached a crypto wallet held by the Colonial Pipeline hackers by following the money trail on bitcoin’s blockchain, it was a wake-up call for any cyber criminals who thought transacting in cryptocurrency automatically protected them from scrutiny. One of the core tenets of bitcoin is that its
In this article AMZN A parcel is prepared for shipment at Amazon’s warehouse in Hemel Hempstead, England. Getty Images Amazon warehouse workers could soon be joined by a couple new co-workers: Ernie and Bert. Those are the names of the new robots Amazon is testing with the goal of reducing strenuous movements for workers. While
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), holds her weekly press conference in the United States Capitol in Washington, May 13, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Trump Justice Department’s reported decision to subpoena tech companies for account data of U.S. lawmakers was a step that “goes even beyond Richard Nixon,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said
System administrator Alexander Landmann carries a server in the computer centre of Deutsche Bahn in Berlin on Oct. 22, 2020. Britta Pedersen | picture alliance | Getty Images Microsoft employees slept in the software company’s data centers during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, an executive said on Wednesday. While many top technology companies directed
Monday.com celebrates its IPO at the Nasdaq, June 10, 2021. Source: Nasdaq In April, Insight Partners’ Jeff Horing hopped on a flight to Israel for a breakfast with tech CEOs. It was also an opportunity to pay a visit to his firm’s first international office, which had opened less than two years before. Now, CEOs
In this article MSFT A gamer plays soccer title Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 on an Xbox console. Sezgin Pancar | Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Microsoft is developing dedicated streaming hardware that people will be able to hook up to their TVs to use its Netflix-like cloud gaming service. The company is betting the future
The Stripe logo pictured on a smartphone with U.S. dollar banknotes in in the background. Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — Stripe on Thursday debuted a new product that it says will make it easier for businesses to calculate and collect sales taxes, marking the digital payment giant’s latest
In this article BTC.CM= Chesnot | Getty Images Bitcoin surged on Thursday, a day after El Salvador passed a law to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. The cryptocurrency jumped more than 13% to trade above $37,000 before settling lower at $36,435.96 at about 4:48 a.m. ET, according to CoinDesk data. On Wednesday, lawmakers in the
In this article GOOGL FB AAPL AMZN U.S. House Impeachment manager David Cicilline (D-RI) speaks on the second day of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on February 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. congress.gov via Getty Images A group of House Democrats is circulating discussion drafts of antitrust bills that
In this article FB AAPL Apple Share Play Source: Apple Starting this fall, the decade-long spat between Apple and Facebook will start a new chapter. And this part of the story has Apple encroaching on Facebook’s territory in ways it never has before. On Monday, Apple revealed several new social features that will come to
In this article CMCSA Walter Cronkite broadcasting for CBS at the GOP Convention in Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida, 1968. Ben Martin | Archive Photos | Getty Images There has been an enormous amount of focus in the media world over the last 18 months about how TV and movie entertainment are
In this article AAPL FaceTime on Android Apple During its developer event on Monday, Apple announced that anyone — including Android and Windows users — will soon be able to join FaceTime calls. The feature, which will roll out this fall, could help Apple keep customers from defecting to competing video chat apps like Zoom
In this article CRM Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive officer of Salesforce.com speaks during the grand opening ceremonies for the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco on May 22, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said on Monday that he expects half or more of his company’s employees
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon 2 spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space Station lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. This is the 22nd resupply mission for NASA by SpaceX. Paul Hennessy | LightRocket | Getty Images Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said on Monday that he’s bullish on