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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk resumed testifying in his own defense on Wednesday in a defamation lawsuit filed by Vernon Unsworth, the British caver who he called a “pedo guy” on Twitter. Musk apologized for the “pedo guy” tweet during his first day of testimony in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Tuesday. […]

U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has broadened scrutiny of Amazon.com Inc beyond its retail operations to include cloud-computing business, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The U.S. antitrust enforcers have been asking software companies about practices around Amazon’s cloud unit Amazon Web Services, the report said. Big tech companies such as […]

Since 1978, researchers have scooped up and measured tens of thousands of birds that died after crashing into buildings in Chicago during spring and fall migrations. Their work has documented what might be called the incredible shrinking bird. A study published on Wednesday involving 70,716 birds killed from 1978 through 2016 in such collisions in […]

Huawei is looking to overturn a ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that bars a government fund from being used to buy equipment from the Chinese telecommunications giant. Last month, the FCC banned the use of the $8.5 billion a year Universal Service Fund (USF) to purchase equipment and services from companies that […]

Amazon.com last month filed to overturn a $10 billion cloud computing contract that the Pentagon awarded to Microsoft. Some analysts argued that Microsoft was favored because President Trump dislikes Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns the liberal Washington Post. Focusing on the politics around the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) contract overlooks important differences […]

Twenty years ago, Amazon.com Inc. was an online bookstore that was powered by the same servers and systems that other companies used. In trying to expand beyond books, Amazon AMZN, -0.65%  developed a new way to power its website, pushing it to the most important e-commerce site of the new millennium. In doing so, it developed Amazon Web […]

Speaking in a press briefing prior to NASA’s next Cargo Dragon launch, a SpaceX official shed some light on a surprise Falcon 9 drone ship landing planned for Wednesday, revealing the circumstances behind the unique decision. A few days ago, it became clear that SpaceX and NASA and decided to perform a drone ship booster […]

Alphabet (GOOG) announced on Tuesday that co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin would relinquish full control of both Google and its parent company to CEO Sundar Pichai, formally ending their reign atop one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies. Citing the tech giant’s evolution from its beginnings during the height of the Internet bubble, Brin […]

Washington (AFP) – India’s Vikram lunar lander, which crashed on its final approach to the Moon’s surface in September, has been found thanks in part to the sleuthing efforts of an amateur space enthusiast. NASA made the announcement on Monday, releasing an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that showed the site of […]

It’s hard to imagine that simply doing something that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people did over this weekend would be worthy of a warning from the FBI, but if you bought a smart TV you might want to read on. The FBI says your new TV might be the thing hackers use […]