In this photo illustration an Airbnb logo is displayed on a smartphone on January 26, 2024 in Unspecified, United Kingdom. John Keeble | Getty Images Airbnb announced it will ban the use of indoor security cameras in any property listed on its site, and bring in new restrictions on outdoor cameras and noise monitoring devices. … Read more
Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi revealed Thurs., Dec. 28, 2023, its long-awaited electric car, but declined to share its price or specific release date. CNBC | Evelyn Cheng BEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi announced Tuesday it would formally launch its long-awaited electric car on March 28. The company claimed in a social media post … Read more
Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. But he has been dissatisfied with the way his original vision for the web has panned out. Rita Franca | Nurphoto | Getty Images Personal artificial intelligence assistants that know our health status and legal history inside out. The ability to transfer your … Read more
USA and China trade relations, cooperation strategy. US America and China flags on chess king on a chessboard. Prasit Photo | Moment | Getty Images The U.S. is likely to impose more curbs to check competition from China as “the decoupling is really in full force,” said Steven Okun, founder and CEO of consultancy APAC … Read more
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks at the Atreju convention in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. The annual event, organized by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, began in 1998 as a convention for right-wing youths and has evolved into a political kermesse, including ministers and members of the opposition. … Read more
Heidi, Marc, Charli, and Dixie D’Amelio at Shopify’s D’Amelio Footwear Pop-up in New York City Shopify Charli D’Amelio is the second-most followed creator on TikTok, where the 19-year-old former competitive dancer and her sister Dixie have made tens of millions of dollars. But D’Amelio can’t be certain how long she’ll be able to serve up … Read more
Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle reported quarterly earnings on Monday that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations. The shares rose over 8% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did: Earnings: … Read more
The U.S., despite decades of research and studies, remains without authentic high-speed rail options. Since 1987, investors have attempted to introduce bullet train service to Texas. In 2014, a group organized under the name Texas Central launched the most recent attempt to connect Dallas to Houston with a bullet train that travels more than 200 … Read more
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday raised concerns about efforts to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok in the U.S., saying it would only serve to empower Meta’s Facebook platform. “Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump, who was formerly U.S. … Read more
In this photo illustration, the Reddit logo is displayed on a cell phone and computer monitor on February 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Reddit aims to raise up to $748 million as part of its upcoming IPO, in which the social media company is seeking a valuation of about … Read more
