Meta shares close at a record as last year’s rally continues

Meta shares close at a record as last year’s rally continues

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta’s stock price has fully rebounded from its awful year in 2022. The share rose almost 2% Friday to close at $383.45, setting a new … Read more

Apple offers rivals access to tap-and-go payments in EU antitrust case

Apple offers rivals access to tap-and-go payments in EU antitrust case

Apple CEO Tim Cook attends the “Senior Chinese Leader Event” held by the National Committee on US-China Relations and the US-China Business Council on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week in San Francisco, California, on November 15, 2023. Carlos Barria | AFP | Getty Images Apple has offered to give rivals … Read more

How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data

How to Opt Out of Comcast’s Xfinity Storing Your Sensitive Data

Your internet service provider could have a good idea of who you’re planning to vote for in the 2024 election as well as the gender of the last person you slept with—and it’s saving that information for later. Major internet providers, like Comcast’s Xfinity, stockpile more revealing data than users might initially realize. For example, … Read more

Infiniti Dealers Are Desperate To Get Actual Good Cars

Infiniti Dealers Are Desperate To Get Actual Good Cars

Compared to 2022, Infiniti actually had a pretty good year last year, at least in terms of sales. A year-over-year increase of nearly 40 percent sounds incredible until you realize it only sold about 65,000 vehicles. For comparison, Acura moved more than 145,000 units in 2023. Apparently, a dated, uncompetitive lineup will do that to … Read more

Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions on Nvidia AI chips

Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions on Nvidia AI chips

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Meta Connect event at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia’s popular computer chips, which are at the heart of artificial intelligence research and projects. In an Instagram … Read more

Amazon names logistics head as new AWS CFO

Amazon names logistics head as new AWS CFO

The Amazon Web Services logo at the Web Summit in Lisbon. Henrique Casinhas | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Amazon said Thursday John Felton, the company’s top logistics executive, will take over as chief financial officer of its AWS cloud computing unit. In a blog post, Doug Herrington, Amazon’s worldwide retail chief, said … Read more

Amazon layoffs hit its Buy with Prime unit

Amazon layoffs hit its Buy with Prime unit

A worker delivers Amazon packages in San Francisco on Oct. 5, 2022. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is laying off some employees in its Buy with Prime unit, the company confirmed, as it continues to look for ways to trim costs. The cuts affect fewer than 5% of staff in the Buy with … Read more

Tesla Buyers Are Much More Likely To Crash, And The Repairs Are More Expensive

Tesla Buyers Are Much More Likely To Crash, And The Repairs Are More Expensive

If you’ve never driven a Tesla before, it’s something of an immediately alien experience. The tip-in acceleration isn’t like any gasoline-powered car on the market, because it doesn’t need to ramp up. If you stomp on the throttle in an EV, it goes right when you tell it to go. Quicker acceleration is a major … Read more

I Can’t Get Enough Of This YouTuber Who Builds Tiny, Fully Functional Scale-Model Cars

I Can’t Get Enough Of This YouTuber Who Builds Tiny, Fully Functional Scale-Model Cars

I love tiny, functional versions of already-small things. I have a cat that is roughly half the size of a normal cat, and she’s perfect. I own a 2013 Mazda2, which is like the miniature version of a normal-sized vehicle (at least here in Texas) — but beyond that, I also own a Hot Wheels … Read more

Google CEO says job cuts needed in 2024 to serve ‘ambitious goals’

Google CEO says job cuts needed in 2024 to serve ‘ambitious goals’

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, speaks on artificial intelligence during a Bruegel think tank conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 20, 2020. Yves Herman | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai is warning employees that more job cuts are coming this year as the company continues to shift investments toward areas like artificial intelligence. … Read more