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Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on “An Examination of Facebook and Its Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors” in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on October 23, 2019. MANDEL NGAN | AFP | Getty Images Russia’s media regulator said Friday it would

Popular Google software engineer Anthony D. Mays leaves the search giant to pursue diversity and inclusion full-time. Anthony D. Mays The year after Anthony D. Mays joined Google as a software engineer in 2013, the company publicly released its diversity numbers for the first time. He knew the numbers were likely low, but he didn’t

An avatar making his way through the metaverse platform Decentraland The metaverse mogul behind a record investment in virtual land is about to start development. Tokens.com paid more than $2 million for space in Decentraland, one of several burgeoning platforms in the metaverse, in November of last year. In an interview, Tokens.com co-founder and CEO

Russian army military vehicles are seen in Armyansk, Crimea, on February 25, 2022. Stringer | AFP | Getty Images Donations being funneled to the Ukrainian army in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are in the millions of dollars, according to new data from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. Research shows that $4.1 million in crypto has been raised

A Ukrainian serviceman holds a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher at fighting positions outside the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine February 24, 2022. Maksim Levin | Reuters Ukraine’s central bank is cracking down on digital money transfers in one of the latest measures implemented in connection with a nationwide declaration of martial law. The National Bank of

In this article PANW TLS CRWD MNDT Cybersecurity stocks were a rare bright spot Thursday as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent major indices down. The conflict has prompted concerns of cyber attacks, especially against critical infrastructure companies. Since last week, Ukraine has already experienced two cyber attacks that impacted government websites. The U.S. attributed the

In this article BTC.CM= Bitcoin on a mound of gold. bodnarchuk | iStock Editorial | Getty Images A key investment case for bitcoin is deteriorating as geopolitical uncertainty and rising inflation hammer cryptocurrency prices. The price of bitcoin fell to a two-week low Tuesday after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Donetsk and Luhansk,

Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images A bipartisan group of 30 lawmakers is urging President Joe Biden to push European leaders to alter language in their proposed Digital Markets Act so that it does not unfairly target U.S. tech companies. In a letter sent

In this article AMZN Packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against two companies that allegedly acted as “fake review brokers.” The lawsuits filed in King

In this article CRM Dado Ruvic | Reuters Salesforce-owned Slack is down for some users, according to the company’s status page. The service began experiencing outages early Tuesday morning when users were unable to log in, send messages or files or receive notifications. It’s not immediately clear what is causing the outage. “We’re investigating the

A Tesla Model S car equipped with Autopilot David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla’s automated lane changing system, known as Autopilot, is being probed by German regulators, newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday, citing a spokesperson for the agency. The Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (Federal Motor Transport Authority) is reportedly assessing whether the technology, which

In this article TATAPOWER-IN RWE-DE This image shows onshore wind turbines in Gujarat, India. Shiv Mer | Istock | Getty Images German energy giant RWE and India’s Tata Power on Monday announced a collaboration that will focus on developing offshore wind projects in India. The firms said a memorandum of understanding relating to the plans

In this article BTC.CM= Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images Bitcoin may not see a bull market until late 2024 or the beginning of 2025, if past price cycles are any indication, according to the co-founder of Huobi, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. Du Jun told CNBC that bitcoin bull markets are

DENVER — The Denver Broncos are up for sale, and a group of crypto enthusiasts is aiming to raise more than $4 billion using a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO, to make it their own. You can think of a DAO like a group of individuals acting in concert with no single leader. Unlike a

In this article AMZN In this Feb. 21, 2020 photo, Dilip Kumar, vice president of physical retail and technology for Amazon, poses for a photo inside an Amazon Go Grocery store set to open soon in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Ted S. Warren | AP Amazon has spent almost three decades perfecting the art of

In this article T AndreyPopov | iStock | Getty Images As many Americans begin to adopt newer and faster 5G wireless service, an earlier-generation wireless network is winding down next week. The shutdown presents enormous consequences for certain products that still use the older 3G networks, such as alarm systems and personal emergency response systems

Bobby Kotick, chief executive officer of Activision Blizzard, attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 10, 2019, in Sun Valley, Idaho. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Microsoft first reached out to game publisher Activision Blizzard about a possible tie-up the same week a media report landed asserting that Activision CEO Bobby Kotick

In this article ROKU People pass by a video sign display with the logo for Roku, a Fox-backed video streaming firm, that held it’s IPO at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York, September 28, 2017. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Roku shares dropped as much as 25% on Friday after the streaming company reported fourth-quarter revenue