Technology

U.S. President Joe Biden is applauded as he holds the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act during a signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, June 17, 2021. Carlos Barria | Reuters Big tech companies will observe Juneteenth by offering education resources during the week of the newly official U.S. holiday.

In this article ROKU Anthony Wood of Roku and Reed Hastings of Netflix CNBC; Ernesto S. Ruscio | Getty Images When Netflix founder Reed Hastings spun off the streaming video box he was developing to a little-known start-up called Roku in 2008, he thought it would probably fail. “There was Xbox and PlayStation and Samsung

MIAMI – Mayor Francis Suarez says Miami’s doors are open to bitcoin miners in China who are currently scrambling to find a new home after Beijing made it clear that their days are numbered.  Mining is the energy-intensive process which both creates new coins and updates the digital ledger of all transactions of existing tokens.

Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks at the Microsoft Annual Shareholders Meeting in Bellevue, Washington, on November 30, 2016. Jason Redmond | AFP | Getty Images Microsoft on Thursday announced enhancements to its Whiteboard app that will make it easier for multiple people to doodle, leave sticky notes and paste images on

In this article MSFT Satya Nadella speaking at the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. David A. Grogan | CNBC Microsoft said Wednesday that CEO Satya Nadella is becoming the chair of the company’s board, replacing independent director John Thompson, following a unanimous vote of the software company’s board. The change reflects the success

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) (L), and Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) Getty Images Democrats and Republicans don’t seem to agree on much these days, but a committed group of lawmakers are aligned on one goal: Reining in the power of Big Tech. That alliance was on display Wednesday when a bipartisan group of House lawmakers spoke

Technicians make repairs to bitcoin mining machines at a mining facility operated by Bitmain in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images China has long been home to more than half the world’s bitcoin miners, but now, Beijing wants them out ASAP.  In May, the government

Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 21, 2021. Saul Loeb | Pool | Reuters The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan, the young progressive

SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell Jay Westcott / NASA SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell returned to her alma mater on Monday and delivered Northwestern University’s commencement address to the class of 2021. Speaking virtually, Shotwell gave Northwestern’s students an overview of her career, especially focusing on the nearly two decades that she’s worked for Elon

In this article CRM GOOGL AMZN ADSK EBAY FB INTC Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019, in Washington. Paul Morigi | Getty Images | Amazon A group of seven tech companies urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to require businesses to

In this article TSLA Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla. Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said the company will resume bitcoin transactions once it confirms there is reasonable clean energy usage by miners. “When there’s confirmation of reasonable (~50%) clean energy usage by miners with positive future trend, Tesla

System administrator Alexander Landmann carries a server in the computer centre of Deutsche Bahn in Berlin on Oct. 22, 2020. Britta Pedersen | picture alliance | Getty Images Microsoft employees slept in the software company’s data centers during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, an executive said on Wednesday. While many top technology companies directed

Dado Ruvic | Reuters The first bitcoin upgrade in four years has just been approved by miners around the world. It is a rare moment of consensus among stakeholders, and crypto experts tell CNBC it’s a pretty big deal for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency.  The upgrade is called Taproot, and it’s due to take

People protest in the street outside a protest to defund the police in a place they are calling the “City Hall Autonomous Zone” in support of “Black Lives Matter” in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 30, 2020. Carlo Allegri | Reuters In June of last year, following pressure from

In this article MSFT Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple, speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an American Technology Council roundtable in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Monday, June 19, 2017, in Washington. Alex Brandon | AP Apple said Friday it didn’t know former President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice

Traders working at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on May 19, 2021. NYSE Is the great value rotation over?  The S&P 500 is at a historic high, but investors who earlier this year overweighted their portfolios into reopening stocks like Caterpillar and banks, and away from tech and other growth stocks, appear to be

Getty Images Some of the 12,000 attendees who flew into Miami last weekend for the biggest bitcoin event in history have started testing positive for Covid. Bitcoin 2021 drew crypto enthusiasts from around the world to the Mana Wynwood convention center in Miami’s arts and entertainment district. For three days, conference goers packed into crowded

In this article MSFT A gamer plays soccer title Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 on an Xbox console. Sezgin Pancar | Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Microsoft is developing dedicated streaming hardware that people will be able to hook up to their TVs to use its Netflix-like cloud gaming service. The company is betting the future

In this article GOOGL FB AAPL AMZN U.S. House Impeachment manager David Cicilline (D-RI) speaks on the second day of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on February 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. congress.gov via Getty Images A group of House Democrats is circulating discussion drafts of antitrust bills that

President Donald Trump has agreed to a deal in which Oracle and Walmart will take a minority stake in a U.S.-headquartered company called TikTok Global. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, says it will have an 80% stake. Nicolas Economou | NurPhoto | Getty Images President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that sets criteria