Sky CEO Dana Strong announced in London the launch of Sky Glass, a broadband-powered smart-TV that will be available to U.K. customers of Sky later this month. Photo: Matt Crossick/PA Wire/Zuma Preess Comcast Corp. CMCSA -4.70% on Thursday said it has built a smart TV that will run on its own operating system, the company’s […]
The global auto industry is investing billions of dollars in chips made of silicon carbide, a more robust cousin of Silicon Valley’s namesake element that companies believe can help them build high-performance electric vehicles. Silicon carbide, or SiC, is silicon married to carbon, the material in a diamond. Using it in chips that control power—as […]
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Safeway Inc.’s former top executive testified Wednesday that the grocery-story chain relied on Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes’s promises when it decided to invest over $350 million in a partnership with the blood-testing company. The relationship between Ms. Holmes and Safeway’s then-chief executive, Steven Burd, started with a shared vision of making healthcare […]
Twitter said the transaction will allow it to better focus on its own platform. Photo: stephen lam/Reuters Twitter Inc. is selling mobile ad firm MoPub to AppLovin Corp. for $1.05 billion in cash, the company said Wednesday. MoPub allows app publishers to make money by selling ad slots on their apps, and helps advertisers reach […]
When Teiranni Kidd walked into Springhill Medical Center on July 16, 2019, to have her baby, she had no idea the Alabama hospital was deep in the midst of a ransomware attack. For nearly eight days, computers had been disabled on every floor. A real-time wireless tracker that could locate medical staff around the hospital […]
In Jon Stewart’s return to television after six years, he devotes 40 minutes to veterans and the effects of the military burning toxic waste. Then he closes the show with a joke about the streaming service presenting it, Apple TV+. “Thank you for watching,” he says, “but my guess is you didn’t. You’re probably just […]
YouTube said it would remove content that falsely alleges approved vaccines are dangerous and cause severe health effects, expanding the video platform’s efforts to curb Covid-19 misinformation to other vaccines. Examples of content that would be taken down include false claims that approved vaccines cause autism, cancer or infertility or that they don’t reduce transmission […]
Organizers of this week’s Ryder Cup are leaning on a multiyear technology overhaul to deliver real-time golf scores and stats, live crowd and course maps, and other data services, bringing advanced analytics to a tradition-bound sport. Ahead of the three-day tournament, which started Friday at Whistling Straits golf club in Wisconsin, tech crews from the […]
Apple Inc. is working on technology to help diagnose depression and cognitive decline, aiming for tools that could expand the scope of its burgeoning health portfolio, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Using an array of sensor data that includes mobility, physical activity, sleep patterns, typing […]
Sept. 15, 2021 9:37 am ET Facebook Inc. FB 1.71% knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online […]
