Elon Musk buys 9.2% stake in Twitter, sending shares higher
The Tesla Inc chief executive officer is now the platform’s biggest shareholder.
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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, dismissing reports China’s largest tech company is considering selling the business because of US restric...
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. What does the policy say? WhatsApp is now reserving the right to share data it collects about you w...
Microsoft backs development of smart cane that will help the visually impaired By Bloomberg By Nate Lanxon Jean Marc Feghali has Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, a disease that reduces his peripheral vision and renders him effectively blind at night. But the intelligent walking cane he's helping to develop has been life-changing, he says. It's also won support from Microsoft. "We've come to a world where we talk about autonomous vehicles and yet we're still sending visually impaired people out with what is essentially a stick," Feghali said. "It doesn't take you anywhere. It doesn't take you to...