Technology

Beyond fresh insights into Alphabet’s quarterly earnings on Monday, financial analysts could press executives for details on the US antitrust probe by 48 states. They should expect a common refrain during the company conference call: it’s deja vu all over again. Late this summer Texas announced it was leading a group of 48 state attorneys general to probe allegations of …

FACEBOOK and Twitter are not the neutral bulletin boards they claim to be, but are instead carefully created hierarchies of intervention made by those who run these tech giants, said Senator Sherry Rehman during a panel discussion at the London edition of the Lahore Literature Festival (LLF) this weekend. The session, which discussed the dark side of social platforms such …

The streaming television war is set to enter a new phase as titans Apple and Disney take direct aim at market leader Netflix, vying for consumers abandoning their cable TV bundles for on-demand services. The shift away from “linear” television is likely to escalate with powerful new entrants to streaming coming this year and in early 2020. The new landscape …

NASA lost its ability to launch humans from U.S. soil when the space shuttle retired. Now, companies and billionaire entrepreneurs are defining a new space age. Christian Davenport, Jonathan Newton, Whitney Leaming, Whitney Shefte, Courtney Kan, Thomas Simonetti, Robert Miller and Julie Vitkovskaya

Are you exceptionally fond of your face? More specifically: Are you so fond of your face that you would like to see it plastered on a global fleet of humanoid robots for years to come? If you answered “yes” to both questions — which would hardly be surprising in the “selfie” era — a British engineering and manufacturing firm wants …

Enduring a lengthy checkout line is a potential annoyance each time you set foot inside a busy grocery store. That’s particularly true during the evening rush, when shoppers descend on grocery stores for last-minute dinner items. Instead of opening more aisles and hiring more cashiers, a Canadian grocery chain says its introducing an innovative pilot program for helping customers bypass lines …

WASHINGTON: Microsoft has won the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon. The contracting process had long been mired in conflict of interest allegations, even drawing the attention of President Donald Trump, who has publicly taken swipes at Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos. Trump in August said his administration was …

Facebook said on Saturday that it had removed an ad which falsely claimed that US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham supported the Green New Deal, demonstrating that it will fact-check ads from political groups but not politicians. The ad, which ran on Friday, was put up as a stunt by a left-leaning Political Action Committee, or PAC, called The Really Online …

President Donald Trump took a swipe at Apple chief Tim Cook with a Tweet lamenting the removal of the iPhone home button. “To Tim: The Button on the IPhone was FAR better than the Swipe!” he tweeted Friday. Trump switched from an Android mobile to an iPhone in March 2017, the same year Apple dropped the physical home button from …

NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.