Credit: Amazon Amazon employees have long worked alongside robots—but the company is now testing a very lifelike, two-legged machine to help its human co-workers with some tasks. Amazon announced Wednesday…
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Foxconn under tax and land use investigations in China
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn is under tax and land use investigations at several of its sites in China, state media reported on Sunday. Chinese authorities are…
the Frenchman taking on US big tech
Thierry Breton’s star is in the ascendant as the EU’s powerful legal weaponry against tech titans comes into force. The European Union’s self-styled digital enforcer, Thierry Breton, doesn’t mince his…
Suit charges crypto firms with billion-dollar fraud
Gemini crypto exchange founded by Tyler Winklevoss (L) and Cameron Winklevoss could be barred from New York’s financial industry if a lawsuit filed by that state’s attorney general succeeds in…
Australian safety watchdog fines social platform X $385,000 for not tackling child abuse content
The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Australia’s online safety watchdog has fined X, formerly known as Twitter, $385,000…
If the first solar entrepreneur hadn’t been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century?
George Cove stands next to his third solar array. Credit: Popular Electricity Magazine, April 1910 / Low Tech Magazine One argument put forward in defense of fossil fuels is that…
Microsoft spent two years trying to buy Activision Blizzard. For Xbox CEO, that was the easy part
Xbox CEO Phil Spencer arrives at the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on June 28, 2023 in San Francisco. After two years co-piloting the biggest acquisition in video…
French taxi drivers bring unfair competition case against Uber
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Around 2,480 taxi drivers will embark on another round of their latest legal fight against Uber in Paris on Friday accusing the American giant of unfair…
Musk’s X rebuffs disinfo claims on Israel violence
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s social media platform X has defended itself against claims from the European Union that it was failing to tackle disinformation around the violence between…
