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Harry Wilmerding Tesla chief executive Elon Musk sold another roughly $1 billion in Tesla shares, nearing his apparent target of selling 10% of his stake in the electric car company. Musk sold 934,090 shares, or roughly $1.02 billion of his holdings, according to financial filings published Tuesday. He…
Read More Elon Musk Unloads Another $1 Billion In Company Stock
Ailan Evans Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters is selling a line of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to finance his campaign, Axios reported. NFTs are unique packets of data stored on the blockchain, a decentralized public ledger distributed across multiple servers, that often correspond to media…
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Ailan Evans A majority of Americans don’t trust major social media platforms, including TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, to keep their data safe, according to a new poll. Over 70% of American internet users say they don’t trust Facebook to responsibly manage their personal information or…
Read More POLL: Most Americans Don’t Trust TikTok, Facebook To Keep Their Data Safe
Ailan Evans Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), experienced issues Wednesday, taking multiple internet services offline. AWS posted a notice on its service health dashboard early Wednesday saying it was “investigating increased EC2 launch failures and networking connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability…
Read More Amazon’s Cloud Goes Down, Causing Outages For Internet Services Across World
Ailan Evans Amazon was recently granted 17 patents for biometric doorbell technology that analyzes people’s faces, voice, skin texture and smell. Ring, Amazon’s doorbell and home surveillance business, was awarded a patent in July for facial recognition technology integrated with a doorbell camera that recognizes…
Read More Amazon’s Doorbell Cameras Recognize ‘Suspicious’ People By Their Face, Voice And Smell
Harry Wilmerding Google told its employees that they would lose pay and eventually their jobs if they did not abide by the company’s COVID-19 vaccination policy, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC. Employees had until Dec. 3 to state their vaccination status to…
Read More Tech Giant To Fire All Unvaccinated Employees
Trump Media & Technology Group (‘TMTG’) announced that it has entered into a wide-ranging technology and cloud services agreement with Rumble Inc. As part of the partnership, Rumble will deliver video and streaming for TRUTH Social. TMTG and Rumble are also in exclusive negotiations for…
Read More Trump’s Digital Company Partners With Rumble, Announces TMTG+
Ailan Evans A family safety app used to track children’s movements is selling location data to several different data brokers, according to an investigation by The Markup. Life360, which bills itself as a “family location sharing app” that purports to “simplify safety” for families, is…
Read More REPORT: Family Tracking App Life360 Is Selling Customers’ Locations To Data Brokers
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey will step down from his position leading the social media company. Twitter announced the transition, which CNBC first reported, in a press release Monday, confirming that Parag Agrawal, the social media platform’s current chief technology officer, will succeed Dorsey. “I’ve decided to leave…
Read More REPORT: Jack Dorsey To Step Down As Twitter CEO
Ailan Evans NASA and Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, launched a test rocket designed to crash into asteroids that may threaten the existence of life on Earth. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a kind of self-guiding spacecraft that seeks out asteroids, was launched early…
Read More NASA Launches Kamikaze Rocket To Collide With Threatening Asteroid