Technology

SAN FRANCISCO: On October 29, 1969, professor Leonard Kleinrock and a team at the University of California at Los Angeles got a computer to “talk” to a machine in what is now known as Silicon Valley. The event gave birth to a network that later became known as the internet — hailed at first as a boon to equality and …

BRUSSELS: Facebook, Google and Twitter must do more to tackle fake news or face regulatory action, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The threat by the EU executive came a year after the US tech giants together with Mozilla, Microsoft and seven European trade bodies signed up to a voluntary code of conduct to combat fake news in a move …

Tesla’s third-quarter revenue fell 39 percent in the United States, a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday. Sales in the country, the electric car maker’s biggest market, fell to $3.13 billion from $5.13 billion, a year earlier. Earlier this month, Tesla said its revenue fell nearly 8 percent to $6.30 billion for the quarter ended September 30, missing analysts’ estimate of $6.33 billion, …

Chinese internet start-up ByteDance, whose globally popular app TikTok has raised US security concerns, on Tuesday denied reports that it was considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong in the first quarter of next year. ByteDance, which is said to be valued at up to $75 billion, was reported by the Financial Times to be eyeing a listing in the city …

PARIS: Movie nights once required driving to the local video store to rent, rewind and return the latest blockbuster. Now on-demand video content providers offer countless binge-worthy options at the touch of a finger. But experts say the ease of streaming services comes with a hefty environmental price tag. Watching a half-hour show would lead to emissions of 1.6 kilograms …

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 …