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Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.

In the tweets, posted Sunday and Monday, Greene made unsubstantiated claims about COVID-19 and the vaccination effort.

An investigation by a global media consortium alleges that military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents

When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board.

Google has separated with its VP of developer relations for Google Cloud after a contentious all-hands meeting where employees voiced concern about manifesto.

Facebook is asking that the new head of the Federal Trade Commission step away from decisions on whether to continue the agency’s antitrust case against the social network giant.

The warehouse club has used digital approaches to stand out from competitors and act as a tech incubator for parent company Walmart.

In the runup to electric car maker Tesla Inc.’s 2016 acquisition of SolarCity, Elon Musk called the combination a “no brainer,” a one-stop shop for electric cars and the solar panels to recharge them.

Virgin Galactic is about to become the first rocket company to launch the boss to space.

President Joe Biden says damage to U.S. businesses in the biggest ransomware attack on record appears to be minimal but information is still incomplete.

Nintendo announced a new Switch game console with a brighter and more colorful OLED screen, more storage and a new kickstand design.

The single biggest global ransomware attack yet continues to bite as more details emerge on how a Russia-linked gang breached the company whose software was exploited

The cyber insurance industry, once a profitable niche, is now in the crosshairs of ransomware criminals

Cybersecurity teams are working feverishly to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record

The relationship between law enforcement and Big Tech has drawn scrutiny recently after the revelation that federal prosecutors obtained phone records belonging to journalists and members of Congress

British designer Thomas Heatherwick tells CNBC that IM Motors is planning to build around 1 million Airo vehicles.

A prominent security robot company has cited little public evidence or specific, detailed examples of crimes that have been thwarted by its machines.

Millions of videos are typically made when Megan Thee Stallion drops a new song, but because of the strike, it appears her latest track, “Thot S—“, is lagging far behind

While podcasts and live audio have been outlets for racism and misinformation, Facebook says its rules on abuse will apply

Spacewalking astronauts have installed a powerful new solar panel outside the International Space Station

As ransomware attacks surge, the FBI is doubling down on its guidance to affected businesses: Don’t pay the cybercriminals

The store is Google’s first permanent retail location and shows that it aspires to create a place where consumers can come and buy its gadgets.

Software security company McAfee said it exposed a vulnerability in the Peloton Bike+ that allowed attackers to install malware through a USB port and potentially spy on riders.

JBS was hacked in May by REvil, one of a number of Russian-speaking hacker gangs, leading to meat plants across the U.S. and Australia shutting down for at least a day.

Officials say the White House has dropped Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China

U.S. cloud computing services provider Fastly said it was experiencing a technical issue.

Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered fuel shortages and, most recently, threatened global food supply chains

Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site, according to reports from the tech site The Verge, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Last year alone in the U.S., ransomware gangs hit more than 100 federal, state and municipal agencies, upwards of 500 health care centers, 1,680 educational institutions and untold thousands of businesses, according to the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft.

Electric cars, meet your competition: fully autonomous electric boats

Two key groups that offer automobile safety ratings have yanked their top endorsements from some Tesla vehicles because the company has stopped using radar on its safety systems.

Beginning Wednesday, Instagram users will be able to hide the numbers that show how many people liked their posts and photos. Users will also be able to hide the number of “likes” on other users’ posts. The feature will be available on Facebook in the coming weeks.

The “Charlie Bit My Finger” video, which shows Charlie, a baby, biting the finger of his older brother Harry, who cries out the titular phrase, appears to have since been taken down from YouTube as of Monday morning.

The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: Dating apps are starting to offer vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who’ve gotten their coronavirus shots

Twitter on Thursday reopened its verification application process to the public for the first time since putting it on pause in November 2017.

The first-ever Google store is in the Chelsea neighborhood, located in the building has Google’s NYC offices.

A Tesla vehicle on “autopilot” crashed into a parked Washington state deputy’s patrol vehicle Saturday, NBC News reports.

China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest step forward for its ambitious space program

Instead of using up precious character space in their bio, Instagram is now letting users select their pronouns in a specific section of their profile.

A seven-month investigation by the Associated Press and the Oxford Internet Institute, a department at Oxford University, found that China’s rise on Twitter has been powered by an army of fake accounts that have retweeted Chinese diplomats and state media tens of thousands of times.

While Elon Musk hosted SNL, the price of dogecoin fell off a cliff.

A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the United States over three nights earlier this week had callers frantically calling TV stations from Texas to Wisconsin and speculating that a fleet of UFOs was coming

Lurking beneath Facebook’s decision on whether to continue Donald Trump’s suspension from its platform is a far more complex and consequential question: Do the protections carved out for companies when the internet was in its infancy 25 years ago make sense when some of them have become global powerhouses with almost unlimited reach

NASA’s new administrator is big on tackling climate and diversifying the agency’s workforce, but hedging on whether the U.S. can put astronauts on the moon by 2024.

Apple’s lucrative app store was alternately portrayed as a price-gouging monopoly and a hub of world-changing innovation during the preamble to a trial that may reshape the technological landscape

Space-related news is not just flowing from the world’s richest, biggest nations

SpaceX has delivered four astronauts back to Earth, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot

Roku sent customers an email Monday morning saying they may lose access to YouTube TV due to recent negotiations with Google.

Roku sent customers an email Monday morning saying they may lose access to YouTube TV due to recent negotiations with Google.

IOS 14.5 adds a lot of new features, such as privacy changes, new Siri voices and the option to unlock your iPhone with an Apple Watch if you’re wearing a mask.

The campus is a sign of Apple’s continued expansion beyond its home in Cupertino, California, where most of its engineering has been based.

A hacker gang has stolen files from a company that manufactures Apple products and is openly trying to extort the tech giant in exchange for not leaking them.

Apple spruced up its product line at an event Tuesday while slipping in quiet notice of a software update, now due next week, designed to enhance the privacy of iPhone users at the expense of digital advertisers such as Facebook.

Apple will reinstate the Parler app. It was pulled from the App Store after it was used to publicize the Capitol riot and content featured calls for violence.

A 12-year-old boy from suburban Denver has died after his family said he tried a TikTok challenge that dared people to choke themselves until they lose consciousness.

Here’s how to use Coinbase to buy and sell cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin and others.

The slew of new regulations is seen as part of a broader effort by China to rein in the power of its internet giants such as Alibaba and Tencent.

Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers

Facebook said it will introduce a feature that will make it easier for users to choose how content is presented to them in their News Feed.

The CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google have faced a grilling as congressional lawmakers tried to draw them into acknowledging responsibility for helping fuel the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and rising COVID-19 vaccine misinformation

Facebook has allowed groups — many tied to QAnon and militia movements — to glorify violence during the 2020 election, a new report finds.

The electric vehicle maker has made Elon Musk the “Technoking of Tesla” and CFO Zach Kirkhorn the “Master of Coin.”

Facebook is adding informational labels to posts about vaccines as it expands efforts to counter COVID-19-related misinformation flourishing on its platforms

In a letter to the NHTSA last month, NTSB chief Robert Sumwalt named Tesla 16 times while urging the sister agency to set stricter standards.

With vaccination against COVID-19 in full swing, social platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter say they’ve stepped up their fight against misinformation that aims to undermine trust in vaccines.

When the Covid pandemic hit, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pivoted so his nonprofit foundation could still bring a STEM education to underserved students.

Russia has announced that it plans to throttle speeds on social media platform Twitter for failing to remove illegal content from its platform.

Twitter has filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Republican state lawmakers want social media giants to face costly lawsuits for policing content on their websites, taking aim at a federal law that prevents internet companies from being sued for removing posts

The U.S. has issued an emergency warning after Microsoft said it caught China hacking into its mail and calendar server program, called Exchange, NBC News reports.

A new icon that Amazon rolled out on its mobile app has quietly undergone an alteration after part of the logo drew some comparisons to the mustache worn by Adolf Hitler. The new logo, which debuted in January, features a cardboard box design with a blue strip of tape on it. Some said the tape, situated above the company’s...

Microsoft’s Mesh cloud service will enable applications in which people can share holograms, speak with one another, make doodles and appear as virtual avatars.

A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging without the permission of its users

Twitter on Thursday announced a number of new features that the company is experimenting with, including Super Follow subscriptions.

Military-controlled state and media companies will also be blocked, while army-linked commercial firms will not be able to advertise on Facebook and Instagram.

The decision follows negotiations between Facebook and Australia which is set to pass a new media law that will require digital platforms to pay for news.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that Uber drivers should be classed as “workers” and not self-employed

Facebook has started testing a tool that lets users move their images more easily to other online services, as it faces pressure from regulators to loosen its grip on data.

In 1989, a couple from Long Island, New York paid roughly $100 for an unclaimed storage unit. It was a blind auction, meaning neither they nor the seller had any idea what was inside. When the couple opened the unit, they were in for what would likely be the surprise of their lives: Buried under some old blankets sat a...

Online shoppers, beware. Scammers could be going after your money this holiday season as you try to take advantage of online deals.

Elon Musk says Tesla has received nearly 150,000 orders for its new electric pickup truck since the automaker revealed the futuristic vehicle earlier this week to mixed reviews.