Technology

PALO ALTO - Tesla’s general counsel Dane Butswinkas is leaving his post in the electric car company after just two months on the job, Reuters reported. The former general counsel is one of dozens of top Tesla executives…

NEW YORK - Children two-years-old and under watched more than twice as much TV in 2014 than in 1997 even with the rise of other technology like smartphones and tablets, according to study published online Monday. The study, “…

Larry Page (left) and Sergey Brin in their friend Susan Wojcicki’s garage. NEW YORK, NY – In the early 1990’s, the Internet was in its infancy. At that time, a great majority of information on this new and interesting “World Wide…

WASHINGTON - Federal regulators dinged an Obama-era rule that beefed up regulations on the Internet slightly more than a year ago. Democrats are now discussing ways to revive at least a portion of the regulation. Democratic…

CALIFORNIA - Tech guru Elon Musk announced he is leaving OpenAI after the artificial intelligence research group developed a program demonstrating how easy it is for a robot to produce fake news. The California billionaire co-founded…

WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller subpoenaed another former employee of a data analytics firm that worked closely with President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016, The Guardian reported Sunday. Brittany Kaiser, a former…

SILICON VALLEY - Twitter suspended conservative political consultant Luke Thompson’s account on Friday after he revealed that Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend, Riley Roberts, has a government email account.…

NEW YORK - Financial powerhouse JPMorgan is launching its own digital coin — even though JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a “fraud” in 2017. “JPM Coin” will have a fixed value of $1. It will only be available for major…

NEW YORK - Amazon backed out of a planned deal Thursday to create a campus in New York after local politicians and critics panned the idea. “After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to…

NEW YORK - Amazon may forfeit part or all of its $3 billion incentive package to build a new headquarters in New York City after local residents put up a spirited resistance to the company’s plans. The fallout between Amazon and the…

NEW YORK - The U.S. solar industry lost roughly 18,000 jobs in the past two years, from roughly 260,000 jobs in 2016 to about 242,000 jobs in November 2018, according to the National Solar Jobs Census. The Solar Foundation has…

CALIFORNIA - Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom abandoned a high-speed rail project Tuesday that sought to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. He suggested the high cost of the project made the idea a pipe dream. Newsom…

SILICON VALLEY - Canadian feminist writer Meghan Murphy is suing Twitter after she was banned for her tweets about transgender people. Attorneys for Murphy on Monday filed suit in the Superior Court of California for the County of…

WASHINGTON - Recently released documents about the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) show the agency spent millions researching invisibility cloaks, high energy laser weapons, wormholes and more between 2007 and 2012. The…

Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said on “Morning with Maria” Monday that the National Enquirer’s parent company could have committed blackmail but not extortion if Jeff Bezos’s allegations are true. “If the…

NEW YORK - Amazon is reportedly rethinking its promise to build a headquarters in New York City after receiving pushback from local officials and residents, sources told The Washington Post. New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and NYC…

NEW YORK, NY – As a business owner, especially a small business owner, your time is as valuable as any other commodity; it’s hard to give it up when running the ship means managing your team, meeting with new and current clients,…

CALIFORNIA - Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s longtime private security consultant investigated an expose of the Amazon head’s affair and has determined it was a political hit job, The Washington Post reported Tuesday night. Consultant…

NEW YORK, NY – Facebook is using company executives to personally answer questions from policy makers about the nature of the social media giant’s data sharing empire, Axios reported Tuesday. The platform typically uses lobbyists…

NEW YORK, NY - Seventy-four percent of Facebook users have no idea the website keeps a list of their interests, preferences and traits according to a Wednesday survey revealing that many users are wholly unaware of the media space in…

NEW YORK, NY - Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio introduced legislation Wednesday that would give the Federal Trade Commission wide latitude to make rules regulating Facebook’s privacy sharing empire. The American Data…

NEW YORK, NY - The standard subscription plan at Netflix is seeing its largest price hike since inception, surging $2 from $11 to $13, which will affect approximately 58 million subscribers across the U.S., The Associated Press…

MARYLAND – Giant Food Stores announced Monday it will be introducing “Marty,” a robotic assistant, into 172 of its stores across four states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The announcement comes as part of a…

CALIFORNIA - Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX is cutting 10 percent of its workforce in an effort to cut down on costs and waste, The Los Angeles Times reported. Musk – as SpaceX CEO – and company President Gwynne…