The regulator suggested that the decision wasn’t just about protecting users' privacy but also to avoid the use of data "to influence voters' decisions to manipulate democratic choices", citing the upcoming 26 September parliamentary elections in Germany.

Bezos tried to hire Gwynne Shotwell to run Blue Origin in 2016. By as early as the fall of 2016, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had already started to worry deeply about the progress—or lack thereof—being made by his rocket company, Blue Origin.

"Algorithms have great potential for good. They can also be misused."

Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever?

China could stand to benefit economically if it can successfully replace coal with renewable energy, according to a report by financial analytics company TransitionZero. The study looked at the costs, or savings, that the Chinese government would incur if it replaced its existing coal-fired power plants with zero-carbon alternatives.

After bringing support for the systems programming language Rust to Android, Google is now looking to bring it to the Linux kernel to reduce security flaws.

India surpassed a somber COVID milestone Thursday, confirming more than 200,000 new cases in a single day as patients and doctors grapple with a shortage of beds and cities announce curfews.

You must be feeling that you are a badass expert of the Netflix show stranger things, but the reality is a lot of other people feel the same. The show stranger things is situated in Hawkins, Indiana, a fictional town, and the show got colossal recognition and won a lot of hearts of this generation and culture. The story of stranger things' characters has been quite relatable for a massive chunk of the population.

One of the great ironies of climate politics is that America continues to subsidize — to the tune of billions of dollars a year — the very industries that are most responsible for the warming of the planet. Biden wants to put an end to that.

Facebook will not notify the more than half a billion people caught up in a huge leak of personal information, it has said. Over the weekend, it emerged that a vast trove of data on more than 530 million users – containing information including their phone numbers and dates of birth – was being made freely available online.

A man calling himself Grandmaster Jay has raised a disciplined, heavily armed militia. It has yet to fire a shot at its enemies, but it’s prepared for war.

I was born a mere four months after the final Apollo astronauts brushed gray dust from their spacesuits and lifted off from the Moon. As my interest in space grew over the years, and writing about this industry became my profession, I felt a deepening sense of regret for missing that glorious moment of triumph in our shared space history. I lived with that regret for decades—right up until April 8, 2016.

When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared?

News that Google's long-awaited custom-made chipset "Whitechapel" may show up in the Pixel 6 still has us excited.

As the Alabama warehouse votes on whether to unionize, Amazon has been facing mounting pressure from progressive lawmakers — and on Friday, the company went on the offensive, calling out Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for their criticism of the company’s policies. Predictably, tweets provoked more tweets, turning into days of jousting between progressives and a corporate PR account.

Nike on Monday filed a lawsuit against MSCHF over its controversial “Satan shoes” collaboration with rapper Lil Nas X.

Marin County will become the second Bay Area community experimenting with a guaranteed income program designed to improve the fortunes of lower-income residents. The Marin program will provide $1,000 monthly grants to 125 low wage-earning women of color who are raising at least one child in Marin County. It is being run not by the county but by the non-profit Marin Community Foundation. However, the Marin County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to contribute $400,000 to the program...

See how Mathematica was used to solve one of the cryptograms sent in a letter by the Zodiac Killer.

Wormholes play an essential role in various science fiction films — connecting two distant points in space. However, According to physics, these tunnels in spacetime are purely theoretical. Dr. Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo from the University of Oldenburg supervised an international team that has now introduced a new theoretical model in the science journal Physical Review Letters that make microscopic wormholes appear less far-fetched than in earlier theories.