Last fall, Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, asked his counterpart at Microsoft, Satya Nadella, if the tech giant would invest billions of dollars in the start-up. Microsoft had already pumped $ 13 billion into OpenAI, and Mr. Nadella was initially willing to keep the cash spigot flowing. But after OpenAI’s board of directors briefly ousted […]
Gov. Ralph Northam signed data privacy legislation into law on Tuesday, making Virginia the second state in the nation to adopt its own data protection rules. The law, known as the Consumer Data Protection Act, had broad support from the tech industry, including Amazon, which is building an Arlington, Va., headquarters. The legislation will allow […]
Taking his campaign against Chinese technology down to the wire, President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with a number of Chinese mobile apps, including Alipay and WeChat Pay. The order will take effect in 45 days, after the start of the Biden administration, leaving its fate unclear. The order follows a […]
North American esports has its first $ 6 million man. TSM has signed Hu “SwordArt” Shuo-Chieh to a two-year contract that will pay him $ 3 million for both 2021 and 2022, giving the professional “League of Legends” player what is believed to be the richest salary in the LCS and among any esports team […]
There are many pain points when it comes to the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19. One of them is how exactly to test people for it when the necessary testing kits are in short supply and, according to at least some theories, many more people may have already had it than current estimates suggest. One […]
(Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department late on Sunday filed suit after California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to restore open internet protections known as net neutrality in the state after the Trump administration repealed the rules in December 2017. This marked the latest clash between the Trump administration and California, which have sparred over […]
[embedded content] At the AAAS 2018 conference, Loon’s Sal Candido shared this video aid when the time came to explain how Project Loon functions. “The team back in Mountain View knows presentations aren’t my strength.” Project Loon, the Internet-delivering balloon system that grew out of Alphabet’s Project X division, has announced its first commercial deal. […]