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Trump picks Brendan Carr as FCC chairman
Carr vowed to take on “censorship” by Big Tech companies in Project 2025, which laid out a conservative agenda for Donald Trump’s second term.
By Eva Dou and Cristiano Lima-StrongNovember 17, 2024
iPhones and AirPods now come with hearing health tools. Here’s how they work.
Apple’s $249 wireless earbuds may now help some hear the world better, not just block it out.
By Chris VelazcoNovember 16, 2024
Trump’s win has bitcoin soaring. The ‘normies’ want in.
Expectation that the new Trump administration will be favorable to cryptocurrency has sent prices soaring, luring in some investors for the first time.
By Lisa BonosNovember 16, 2024
Musk expands legal assault on OpenAI to also target Microsoft
Billionaire Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI but now says the ChatGPT developer has betrayed its original mission of helping humanity with artificial intelligence.
By Gerrit De VynckNovember 15, 2024
Love buying cheap stuff online? Thank a law that avoids Trump’s tariffs.
A tax-free law used by American tourists also turbocharged bargain apps like Temu and Shein. The next White House could change everything.
By Shira OvideNovember 15, 2024
U.S. locks in $6.6 billion grant to Taiwanese chipmaker
The new Arizona factories of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. are expected to create thousands of jobs.
By Aaron Gregg and Eva DouNovember 15, 2024
GM’s robot car unit Cruise will pay $500,000 over falsified crash report
General Motors’ robot car unit Cruise will pay $500,000 to resolve criminal charges from the DOJ for falsifying a federal report after a grisly 2023 crash.
By Trisha ThadaniNovember 14, 2024
The FTC is preparing to investigate Microsoft’s cloud business
The agency’s antitrust investigation continues Biden administration scrutiny of Big Tech as the industry waits to discover what policies Donald Trump adopts.
By Gerrit De Vynck and Cat ZakrzewskiNovember 14, 2024
Diversity will suffer with five-day office mandates, research suggests
Researchers say RTO mandates could hurt women and underrepresented workers, who are more likely to avoid companies that don’t offer flexibility.
By Danielle AbrilNovember 14, 2024
ChatGPT is a poet. A new study shows people prefer its verses.
A new study finds that people prefer poems written by ChatGPT, a chatbot, over those written by human writers.
By Carolyn Y. JohnsonNovember 14, 2024
E.U. fines Meta $840 million for ‘abusive practices’ on Facebook Marketplace
European enforcers accused the tech giant of using its popular social network to unfairly advantage its classified-ads business.
By Cristiano Lima-StrongNovember 14, 2024
How to get started on Bluesky, the app some X users are defecting to
After X owner Elon Musk helped Donald Trump successfully run for office, some X users are jumping ship for the decentralized Twitter clone Bluesky.
By Tatum HunterNovember 14, 2024
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Trump’s AG pick Matt Gaetz could be bad news for Big Tech
The Washington Post’s essential guide to tech policy news.
By Cristiano Lima-Strong and Andrea JiménezNovember 14, 2024
Silicon Valley eyes a windfall from Trump’s plans to gut regulation
Some tech start-ups and investors anticipate a golden era when Donald Trump returns to office, thanks to government contracts and deregulation.
By Gerrit De Vynck and Nitasha TikuNovember 14, 2024
Trump set to deepen tech Cold War with China
The containment policy set in the first Trump administration and continued under President Biden will get a harder edge, former officials say.
By Eva DouNovember 14, 2024
Liberals are fleeing X again — this time for Bluesky
An upstart social network attracts news junkies and politicos from larger rivals.
By Will OremusNovember 14, 2024
FTC antitrust case against Meta can move to trial, court rules
The decision marks a victory for the agency and its Democratic chair, Lina Khan, after early legal setbacks.
By Cristiano Lima-StrongNovember 13, 2024
Trump pledged to gut Biden’s AI rules, as OpenAI eyes landmark infusion
OpenAI’s policy proposal warns that if the United States will lose its technological edge to China without investing in artificial intelligence, potentially aligning with Trump.
By Pranshu Verma and Gerrit De VynckNovember 13, 2024
So you want to ride a self-driving taxi? How Waymo compares in our tests.
Robotaxi services are slowly expanding to new cities — so we put one to the test.
By Chris Velazco, Andrea Jimenez and Danielle AbrilNovember 13, 2024
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Trump’s win turns online censorship case upside-down
Missouri v. Biden “jawboning” case moves forward even as the Biden administration winds down.
By Will Oremus, Andrea Jiménez and Aaron SchafferNovember 13, 2024
