The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc, in the next phase of its crackdown on toxic social media content and dodgy ecommerce products that began last year by targeting the most popular services.
The EU’s trailblazing Digital Services Act (DSA) has already kicked in for nearly two dozen of the biggest online platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Amazon, and Wikipedia. The DSA imposes a set
Every day, our modern lives are powered by thousands of Earth-orbiting satellites that enable everything from GPS signals to banking transactions to weather forecasts.
Those mundane, yet critical, functions of modern society could be upended instantly if the satellites were disrupted. According to multiple reports, Russia might now be trying to develop a space-based, nuclear-powered anti-satellite weapon that could do exactly that.
On Wednesday, House Intelligence chairman
Luxury travel is getting a new perk. Beond, a new carrier that bills itself as “the world’s first premium leisure airline,” has announced plans to offer select passengers the use of Apple’s Vision Pro on flights, expected to start in July.
Founded in 2022, the Maldivian-based airline currently operates three routes to and from the Maldives. It does not currently have any routes that include the United States.
Passengers who get an opportunity to
President Joe Biden’s campaign is embracing TikTok to court younger voters ahead of the presidential elections, but U.S. adults have mixed views about whether the video-sharing app should even operate in the country.
A new poll by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds a three-way split when it comes to banning the app, with 31% of U.S. adults saying they would favor a nationwide ban on TikTok use, while 35% say they would oppose that
Investors in cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase are waking up to some welcome news. As of the time of the writing, shares of Coinbase (ticker: COIN) are up over 12% to above $186 per share. That’s a price COIN shares haven’t seen since March 2022.
Shares rose on the reporting of Coinbase’s Q4 2023 financial results, which were announced yesterday after the bell. The main headline from Coinbase’s Q4 was that the company reported its first profit in t
Dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Grindr have made finding romance easier over the past decade. Half of Americans under 30 have used a dating app or website, according to the Pew Research Center, with one in five dabbling with Hinge, which launched in 2012. One in ten currently partnered couples met their partner or spouse on an app or website, according to Pew.
But amid growth that places dating apps front and center in our lives, one of those apps, Hinge, faces a problem.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022, he promised to stick up a middle finger to propriety. He ran roughshod over the platform, pulling hosting servers while they were still operational and ultimately firing about 80% of the company’s staff. Twitter’s eventual rebrand as X was then positioned by both Musk and his CEO, Linda Yaccarino, as a move toward a radically different app—one that goes beyond social media to also offer messaging, banking
The U.S. is at risk of losing leadership in low Earth orbit to China if commercial space stations do not come to fruition before the International Space Station plunges into the sea, two industry officials told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Background
The ISS is set to be decommissioned in 2030 and commercial providers are preparing to pick up the mantle of hosting people and experiments aboard commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) destinations. At the hearing, off
DoorDash stock hit a 52-week high Thursday, but quickly fell from that peak in after-hours trading as investors digested the company’s fourth-quarter earnings.
The delivery company reported a 39-cent-per-share loss, compared to analyst expectations of just 16 cents. That sent shares down more than 9.5% in the post-market at one point. The company, however, attempted to shift investor focus to the overall adjusted EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes and amortization). That
With the unveiling of a new text-to-video tool called Sora, OpenAI has joined Runway, Meta, Google and others in the race toward AI video that nears the quality of traditional live-action video.
Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text