California will be the first U.S. state to direct millions of dollars from taxpayer money and tech companies to help pay for journalism and AI research under a ne
An elections technology company is taking full responsibility for glitches that kept many Florida county elections officials from immediately posting primary results Tuesday night.
While the problem
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Most space mission systems historically have used one spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission independently. Whether it was a weather satellite or a human-crewed module like Apollo, nearly every spacecraft was deployed and performed its one-off mission completely on its own.
But today, space industry organizations are ex
With just weeks left until voters head to the polls, Democrats are increasingly prioritizing advertising on streaming services over traditional television.
Just days before the Democratic National Convention, the Harris campaign announced plans to reserve at least $370 million in advertising buys for the coming weeks; $200 million of that will be spent on digital ads, with much of it
The latest quarterly e-commerce sales report from the U.S. Department of Commerce shows that online sales are outperforming offline when it comes to the pace of growth.
American consumers bought $291.6 billion worth of goods through e-commerce retailers in the second quarter of 2024, up 1.3% from the first three months of the year, and up 6.7% from the same period in 2023. That 6.7% year-on-year growth is
The idea of a strategic reserve of Bitcoin is gaining steam on Capitol Hill, even if financial and regulatory experts are skeptical.
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis, a Republican from Wyoming and one of the crypto industry’s staunchest advocates, introduced late last month the BITCOIN Ac
In the tech world, executives rarely brag about the opportunities they’ve chosen not to seize. So earlier this week, it was a bit of a shocker when James Cuda declared that he @$*#! hated generative AI, and his company’s products wouldn’t adopt it.
And yet, it also made perfect sense. Cuda is the CEO of Procreate, the maker of a wondrous iPad app for drawing, painting, and animating with uncannily realis
There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what about the rest of the rules? When can we really remind someone of our old Venmo request? What happens when someone tries to flirt with you on LinkedIn?