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The Tesla Inc chief executive officer is now the platform’s biggest shareholder.

Rep. Jerry McNerney uncorked a cascade of political recalibration on Tuesday.

Huawei Technologies has taken the wraps off its latest high-end foldable smartphone, hoping to stake out a place in a fast-expanding category despite dwindling expectations that Washington will roll back Trump-era sanctions anytime soon. Huawei’s Mate X2 features an 8-inch screen when opened out and a 6.45-inch one when closed. It’s powered by the company’s own 5G Kirin 9000 chip and came days after Huawei’s billionaire founder Ren Zhengfei vowed to keep its smartphone business, dismiss...

Facebook’s WhatsApp has begun alerting its two billion users of an update to its privacy policy — and if they want to keep using the popular messaging app, they have to accept it. The new terms, delivered in early 2021, have caused an outcry among technology experts, privacy advocates, billionaire entrepreneurs and government organisations, and triggered a wave of defections to rival services. WhatsApp says the change is necessary to help it integrate better with other Facebook products. 1....

Microsoft backs development of smart cane that will help the visually impaired By Bloomberg By Nate Lanxon Jean Marc Feghali has Lebers Congenital Amaurosis, a disease that reduces his peripheral vision and renders him effectively blind at night. But the intelligent walking cane hes helping to develop has been life-changing, he says. Its also won support from Microsoft. "Weve come to a world where we talk about autonomous vehicles and yet were still sending visually impaired people out with wh...

Technology by Matt Young 15th Dec 2020 6:18 AM Google and YouTube are returning to normal but the internet giant has provided little detail about the major outage of multiple services that simultaneously crashed across the world for millions of users, sending the internet into a spin. According to the website Down Detector, which tracks reports of major online service outages, almost all of Googles major services shut down overni...