Nasdaq partners with Amazon to move market trading to the cloud next year

Nasdaq and Amazon are partnering to move the exchange's North American markets to the cloud. The move, which will begin next year, follows other exchanges utilizing the cloud.

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Swift selling local media assets to Ogden Newspapers

Swift Communications is selling its local media and publishing businesses to West Virginia-based Ogden Newspapers.

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Elizabeth Holmes gets emotional under fire by prosecutors

One-time entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday struggled to recall key events that led to her being charged with fraud as CEO of the failed blood-testing startup Theranos.

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Jim Warren, early influencer in personal computing, dies at 85

Jim Warren, a charismatic trade show impresario, editor and activist who personified the blend of technical enthusiasm and counterculture values that shaped the early days of personal computing, has died in Silverdale, Kitsap County. He was 85.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sells half his shares in the company

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold more than half his shares in the Redmond tech giant last week in a $285 million transaction that some suspect have been aimed at avoiding a market downturn or a new capital gains tax in Washington state.

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MI6 spy chief says China, Russia, Iran top UK threat list

The head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency saiys China, Russia and Iran pose three of the biggest threats facing the U.K. in a fast-changing, unstable world.

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UK watchdog orders Facebook to reverse purchase of Giphy

The United Kingdom’s antitrust watchdog has blocked Facebook’s acquisition of GIF-sharing platform Giphy and ordered the social network to reverse the deal.

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Hunt for the ‘blood diamond of batteries’ impedes green energy push

Dangerous mining conditions plague Congo, home to the world’s largest supply of cobalt, a key ingredient in electric cars. A leadership battle threatens reforms.

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Can a machine learn morality? Seattle researchers hope so

Researchers at an artificial intelligence lab in Seattle called the Allen Institute for AI unveiled new technology last month designed to make moral judgments. They called it Delphi, after the religious oracle consulted by the ancient Greeks.

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Elizabeth Holmes accuses ex-lover, business partner of abuse

Disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes on Monday cast herself as the abused puppet of her former lover and business partner Sunny Balwani during tearful testimony aimed at refuting accusations she lied about a flawed blood-testing technology that hailed as a major breakthrough.

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Elizabeth Holmes testifies that she was raped at Stanford, focused on Theranos

Elizabeth Holmes testified in court Monday that she was partly motivated to launch the company that would become Theranos after being raped at Stanford. The revelations of the rape and her relationship with Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani surfaced during Holmes' fourth day of testimony.

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Who is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s new CEO?

As Twitter’s new chief, Parag Agrawal has his work cut out for him. The company faces challenges, such as placating activist investors and calming an agitated Congress about its power, divisiveness and potential to censor free speech.

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UK spies seek help from tech firms against cyber threats

The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency says U.K. spies must give up some of their deep-rooted secrecy and seek help from tech firms to combat fast-moving cyber threats.

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New Twitter CEO steps from behind the scenes to high profile

Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile and politically volatile jobs as co-founder Jack Dorsey steps away from the company.

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Could Roads Recharge Electric Cars? The Technology May Be Close.

Electric vehicles are getting a lot of buzz. Yet sales of electric vehicles, or EVs, are expected to amount to less than 4% of passenger vehicle sales in the United States in 2021.

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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey steps down as CEO

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has stepped down as CEO of the social media platform.

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Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Replaced by CTO Parag Agrawal

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Twitter Inc., is stepping down, ceding the position to the company's Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal.

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Apple iOS privacy settings to change now

Apple has added a number of settings and reports to its iOS mobile operating system, which runs on iPhones and iPads, to make personal information more private from webpages, third-party apps and even Apple itself. Here's what you need to do.

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Italy, France deepen economic, defense cooperation

Italian Premier Mario Draghi says a bilateral treaty signed with French President Emmanuel Macron to deepen bilateral cooperation will in turn strengthen the European Union.

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EU to limit political ads, ban use of certain personal info

The European Union has drawn up plans to help people better understand when they are seeing political ads online and who is responsible for them.

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Collins Dictionary picks NFT as word of the year 2021

Collins Dictionary has chosen the term NFT as its word of the year after surging interest in the digital tokens that can sell for millions of dollars brought it into the mainstream.

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NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept

NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.

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Elizabeth Holmes denies deception at her criminal trial

Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of engineering a massive scam, expressed some remorse while on the witness stand Tuesday, but denied trying to conceal that her company’s blood-testing methods weren’t working as she had promised.

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Samsung says it will build $17B chip factory in Texas

Samsung said it plans to build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Texas amid a global shortage of chips used in phones, laptops, cars and other electronic devices.

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Apple accelerates work on car, aims for fully autonomous vehicle

Apple is pushing to speed development of its electric car and is refocusing the project around full self-driving capabilities, according to people familiar with the matter, aiming to solve a challenge that has bedeviled the auto industry.

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Big Tech is pushing smart home devices as the latest work-from-home tools

Big tech companies including Amazon, Facebook parent Meta and Google are expanding work applications for the smart home, one that's controlled by a group of connected devices that can be accessed remotely.

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A fix-it job for government tech

Technology dysfunction is also often a symptom of poor policies. People in government have promised similar changes before, and it’s not a quick fix.

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Taxi! To the airport — by air, please

Several companies are betting they can bring electric urban air travel to the masses — perhaps within the next few years. New aircraft, better batteries and massive investor interest may drive a transportation revolution.

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Is your Christmas present spying on you? How to assess gifts’ privacy risks

Thanks to interconnected, "smart" products and services, your gift may pose a threat to a friend or loved one's privacy. Interactive toys and gadgets often collect a boatload of data about users and surroundings. Here's what you need to know.

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Can advertisers track online users if they use a VPN? | Q&A with Patrick Marshall

Patrick Marshall answers reader questions about VPNs and cookies, plus hard drives and Windows upgrades.

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The best tech gifts that aren’t gadgets

Supply-chain disruptions may make it tough to buy devices, but the most thoughtful presents were never tangible to begin with. Writer Brian X. Chen's favorite holiday tech gift is not even a gadget, though it was made with technology.

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Italy, France deepen economic, defense cooperation

Italian Premier Mario Draghi said that a bilateral treaty signed Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron to deepen bilateral cooperation would in turn strengthen the European Union.

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How Amazon may change America’s chicken economy

The biggest chicken producers in the U.S. will have to overhaul their breeding programs within just a few years to meet tough new animal welfare guidelines promoted by Amazon and other major food sellers.

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EU to limit political ads, ban use of certain personal info

The European Union has drawn up plans to help people better understand when they are seeing political ads online and who is responsible for them.

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Collins Dictionary picks NFT as word of the year 2021

Collins Dictionary has chosen the term NFT as its word of the year after surging interest in the digital tokens that can sell for millions of dollars brought it into the mainstream.

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NASA just launched a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid

NASA is crashing DART into an asteroid to test, for the first time, a method of planetary defense that could one day save a city, or maybe the whole planet, from a catastrophic asteroid impact.

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Elizabeth Holmes points fingers at others and says she was a believer

In her most substantial day of testimony, Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, painted herself as someone whose best intentions were misinterpreted.

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NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept

NASA has launched a spacecraft on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.

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Elizabeth Holmes denies deception at her criminal trial

Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of engineering a massive scam, expressed some remorse while on the witness stand Tuesday, but denied trying to conceal that her company’s blood-testing methods weren’t working as she had promised.

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T-Mobile to pay $20M after outage led to failed 911 calls

Bellevue-based T-Mobile US is paying $19.5 million in a settlement with the FCC over a nationwide outage in 2020 that resulted in thousands of failed 911 calls. The FCC said the partial network failure was made worse by routing and software errors.

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Liberal Oregon resists dropping controversial investments

Oregon residents are increasingly pushing for the state to divest from fossil fuel companies and other controversial investments, but resistance from the state treasury is putting the onus on the Legislature.

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Elizabeth Holmes expresses remorse in her criminal trial

Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of engineering a massive scam, expressed some remorse while on the witness stand Tuesday, but denied trying to conceal that her company’s blood-testing methods weren’t working as she had promised.

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For some recipe apps, your personal data is gravy

Like a Thanksgiving turkey, popular recipe apps are stuffed — with creepy tracking technology. If you fall into the "keep your hands off my personal info" camp, there are ways to work around snooping recipe apps this holiday season.

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Bank regulators will team up to develop crypto rules next year

The Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency plan "to provide greater clarity on whether certain activities related to crypto-assets conducted by banking organizations are legally permissible," they said.

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Zoom tumbles amid signs of slowing growth

Video-conferencing company Zoom had a disappointing day on the market. Its shares tumbled nearly 15% on the news of its smaller-than-projected number of large customers.

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Samsung expected to build $17B chip factory in Texas

Samsung is planning to build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Texas amid a global shortage of chips used in phones, laptops, cars and other electronic devices.

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Apple says it is suing Israeli hacker-for-hire company

Tech giant Apple is suing Israel’s NSO Group, seeking to block the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire company from breaking into Apple’s products, like the iPhone.

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Italian competition watchdog fines Apple, Amazon $225M

Italy’s antitrust watchdog has fined Apple and Amazon more than 200 million euros, or $225 million, for cooperating to restrict competition in the sale of Apple and Beats branded products.

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Newsom names energy adviser as state’s top utility regulator

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named his senior adviser on energy policy as the next president of the powerful state body that regulates utilities.

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Ericsson to buy cloud service company Vonage in $6.2B deal

Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson says it’s buying U.S. cloud communications company Vonage. The $6.2 billion is set to close in the first of half of next year.

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