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After years of research and development efforts, tech startups want to see the Pentagon commit to real production work.

With the pandemic digitizing every aspect of our lives, the Creator Economy has taken off like never before, with some estimates saying it’s now a $100 billion+ market. And yet, managing your professional life as a model, actor, writer or designer remains a mish-mash of emails, manual booking processes and dreaded PDFs. Creatives face late […]

Anduril buys tube-launched drone-developer Area-I 1 hour ago An Area-I Agile-Launched, Tube-Integrated, Unmanned System, or ALTIUS, is launched from a UH-60 Black Hawk at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, March 4, where the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center led a demonstration that highlighted the forward air launch of the ALTIUS. (Photo courtesy of Yuma Proving Ground) WASHINGTON — Anduril Industries, a venture-backed defense technology company, has ...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. The US wants VCs and founders to blow the whistle on suspicious investments in American tech firms. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the US created a "tip line" in the summer. But VCs and techies unawareness of it poses a challenge to efforts to block China from US tech. For an informant calling in with a hot tip about a national security threat, the gen...

Florida businessman convicted of $1BILLION Medicare fraud spent NYE dancing at his daughters wedding days after Trump commuted his 20-year prison sentence citing his declining health Philip Esformes was among the slew of convicts pardoned by President Trump in the final days of his presidency  Esformes, 51, was convicted on 20 criminal counts in a $1billion Medicare fraud scheme in 2019  The healthcare executive was sentenced to 20 years in prison but only served 4 White House claimed the mo...

Pardon for Ex-Google Exec Who Took Self-Driving Car Secrets to Uber A long-running Silicon Valley soap opera took an unexpected twist on Wednesday after outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned a former Google engineer for stealing self-driving car secrets shortly before joining Uber. Trump’s surprise pardon of Anthony Levandowski enables him to avoid serving an 18-month sentence in federal prison that U.S. District Judge William Alsup left no doubt last summer he believed was warranted. “T...

A long-running Silicon Valley soap opera took an unexpected twist on Jan 20 after outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned a former Google engineer for stealing self-driving car secrets shortly before joining Uber.

In his final hours of office, Donald Trump pardoned a former Google engineer who was convicted of stealing trade secrets from the company before taking up a new role with competitor Uber. Anthony Levandowski, 40, had been sentenced in August 2020 to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to inappropriately downloading trade secrets from Google’s self-driving car operation Waymo, where he was an engineer. The surprise pardon was remarkable for...

Albert Pirro had been among those expected to be on the list issued in the early hours of Wednesday morning. But when he was not, his ex-wife lobbied Trump directly.

Here is a look at all 143 people President Donald Trump granted pardons or commutations to on the final day of his presidency.