Technology
Why Meta had to ‘bend the knee to Trump’ ahead of his inauguration
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week that Meta would pivot its moderation policies to allow more “free expression” was widely viewed as the company’s latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump. More than any of its Silicon Valley peers, Meta has taken numerous public steps to make amends with […]
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Apple’s market share slides in China as iPhone shipments decline, analyst Kuo says
Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Apple is losing market share in China due to declining iPhone shipments, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a report on Friday. The stock slid 2.4%. “Apple has adopted a cautious stance when discussing 2025 iPhone production plans with key suppliers,” Kuo, an analyst at TF Securities, […]
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Zuckerberg says Biden administration pushed Meta ‘super hard’ to take down vaccine content
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, Sept. 25, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published Friday that his company was pressured by the Biden administration to remove content on side effects of Covid vaccines. […]
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Meta announces end of DEI programs. Read the internal memo
Meta on Friday told employees that its plans to end a number of internal programs designed to increase the company’s hiring of diverse candidates, the latest dramatic change ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second White House term. Janelle Gale, Meta’s vice president of people, made the announcement on the company’s Workplace internal communications forum. Among […]
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Amazon to shut down ‘Try Before You Buy’ rival to Stitch Fix
Packages with the logo of Amazon are transported at a packing station of a redistribution centre of US online retail giant Amazon in Horn-Bad Meinberg, western Germany, on December 9, 2024. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Amazon is shutting down “Prime Try Before You Buy,” a competitor to Stitch Fix that allowed Prime […]
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Tesla launches refreshed Model Y in China to fend off domestic rivals
Tesla launched a revamped version of its Model Y in China. Tesla Tesla on Friday announced a revamped version of its popular Model Y in China, as the U.S. electric car giant looks to fend off challenges from domestic rivals. The Model Y will start at 263,500 Chinese yuan ($35,935), with deliveries set to begin […]
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Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments on challenge to TikTok ban
Tik Tok creators gather before a press conference to voice their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” pending crackdown legislation on TikTok in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2024. Craig Hudson | Reuters The Supreme Court on Friday will hear oral arguments in […]
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Nvidia’s tiny $3,000 computer steals the show at CES
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks about Project Digits personal AI supercomputer for researchers and students during a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. Gadgets, robots and vehicles imbued with artificial intelligence will once again vie for attention at the Consumer Electronics Show, as vendors behind […]
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Elon Musk promotes far-right Alternative for Germany candidate, hosts discussion on X
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party, arrives to speak to the media with AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla shortly after the AfD leadership confirmed Weidel as the party’s candidate for chancellor on December 07, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Maryam Majd | Getty Images Elon Musk used his social network X […]
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Microsoft contributes $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an American Technology Council roundtable at the White House in Washington on June 19, 2017. Nicholas Kamm | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft said Thursday that it’s contributing $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. The software maker is now more closely aligned […]
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