Now that the car is evolving into essentially a smartphone on wheels, it’s no wonder Apple is kicking the tires. First, there is the transition from internal combustion engines to electric motors, which have far fewer mechanical parts. Now, enabled by that change, a second shift is under way—one that’s a prerequisite for a self-driving […]
Across America, older fossil-fuel power plants are shutting down in favor of renewable energy. But some are getting a new lease on life—to mine bitcoin. In upstate New York, an idled coal plant has been restarted, fueled by natural gas, to mine cryptocurrency. A once-struggling Montana coal plant is now scaling up to do the […]
LONDON—Senior managers at Google artificial-intelligence unit DeepMind have been negotiating for years with the parent company for more autonomy, seeking an independent legal structure for the sensitive research they do. DeepMind told staff late last month that Google called off those talks, according to people familiar with the matter. The end of the long-running negotiations, […]
Kurtis Minder got into the ransomware negotiation business by accident early last year. The startup he co-founded, GroupSense Inc., monitors dark web forums and chat groups to see when hackers sell access to businesses’ computer networks. After Mr. Minder’s firm told a software company that criminals appeared to have targeted it, the company asked GroupSense […]
Param Sharma, 25, has posted multiple videos to Instagram in which he appears to operate a Tesla while in the back seat with nobody at the wheel. Police in California arrested Mr. Sharma on May 10 for alleged reckless driving after an officer said he saw him operating a Tesla Model 3 from the back […]
The move by the founder of TikTok’s parent company to step down as chief executive makes him the latest in a series of Chinese internet entrepreneurs to leave the spotlight as authorities tighten the reins on the nation’s tech giants. ByteDance Ltd., one of the world’s most valuable closely held tech companies, said Thursday that […]
Microsoft Corp. MSFT -0.53% said it plans to largely retire its Internet Explorer browser, adding to the digital scrap heap a product once at the center of one of the tech industry’s biggest battles. The software giant on Wednesday said its Internet Explorer 11 desktop application, the current version, will no longer be supported starting […]
The operator of the Colonial Pipeline learned it was in trouble at daybreak on May 7, when an employee found a ransom note from hackers on a control-room computer. By that night, the company’s chief executive officer came to a difficult conclusion: He had to pay. Joseph Blount, CEO of Colonial Pipeline Co., told The […]
SHANGHAI—Guests at a private August dinner hosted by billionaire entrepreneur Jack Ma were intrigued by a fellow diner who introduced himself as a humble car salesman. It was Xu Jiayin, better known as the chairman of China Evergrande Group, the country’s biggest real-estate developer and one of China’s most indebted companies. At the time of […]
The gap between the Mac and the iPad is the tightest it has ever been. The iPad Pro is now powered by the same M1 chip as the MacBook Pro, while the latest MacBooks can run many iOS apps. Wondering which you should get? For most people, it’s now a worthy question. You’re not a […]
