MOSCOW—Russia’s government was quick to use social media when it tried to steer the course of U.S. elections, American officials say. It isn’t quite as eager to see its own opponents at home try the same thing. Ahead of a parliamentary vote later this year, the Kremlin has been fine-tuning its strategy to pressure platforms […]
Bitcoin enthusiasts prize the cryptocurrency as beyond the reach of any government. Yet up to three-quarters of the world’s supply has been produced in just one country, China, where a government push to curtail output is now causing global bitcoin turbulence. The amount of electricity needed to power vast numbers of computers used to create […]
Facebook Inc. FB -0.20% said it is suspending Donald Trump’s accounts for two years, formalizing a long-term penalty for the former U.S. president after its independent Oversight Board said the company was wrong to keep the ban open-ended. The move immediately inflamed the long-running partisan debate over how much control tech companies should have over […]
A national laboratory in California, armed with a powerful supercomputer, is set to create a highly detailed, three-dimensional map of the universe. The customized HPE Cray EX supercomputer from Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was installed recently at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a U.S. Department of Energy facility. NERSC is located at Lawrence […]
FBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency was investigating about 100 different types of ransomware, many tracing back to hackers in Russia, and compared the current spate of cyberattacks with the challenge posed by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “There are a lot of parallels, there’s a lot of importance, and a lot of […]
The European Union and the U.K. opened formal antitrust investigations into Facebook Inc.’s FB 1.89% classified-ads service Marketplace, ramping up regulatory scrutiny for the company in Europe. Both the European Commission—the EU’s top antitrust enforcer—and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority said Friday they are investigating whether Facebook repurposes data it gathers from advertisers who […]
A soldier idles by a Russian-made T-72 tank. A moment later, a missile fired from a drone slams into the vehicle, exploding in an orange flash, blowing the man off his feet and leaving the tank a smoldering wreck. The scene is one of dozens of aerial videos that were posted online in Azerbaijan last […]
Palantir Technologies Inc. PLTR 2.37% and DoorDash Inc. DASH 2.83% gave their longtime chief executives special stock awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars in 2020, two of the biggest compensation packages ever awarded to corporate leaders. Alexander Karp, the chief executive officer and a co-founder of Palantir, a data-analysis company that went public in […]
An undated composite image of Venus, Earth’s nearest neighbor. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Reuters Updated June 2, 2021 9:13 pm ET The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said it had earmarked an initial $1 billion to send the first U.S. probes to Venus in over 30 years, an effort to study what made the Earth’s nearest neighbor inhospitable […]
A new venture fund has launched to invest in startups commercializing metamaterials, a budding area of materials science that could improve the performance and reduce the size and weight of devices such as lenses and sensors. San Francisco-based MetaVC Partners is raising $100 million for its first fund, and has already received capital from Bill […]
