Technology

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., compared Big Tech to Big Tobacco following a report showing Facebook is aware of Instagram’s negative impact on teenagers’ mental health.

Parler CEO George Farmer slammed social media on Wednesday for giving “free rein” to Middle East terrorist groups, saying on Wednesday that he has no qualms about banning the Taliban from his platform.

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, argued that “positive” regulation for the cryptocurrency industry could start the next bull market.

The Biden administration has been “flagging” content for Facebook to remove.

From restaurant menus to grocery store aisles, food prices are climbing, and the outlook for rising prices and looming droughts means this problem won’t go away anytime soon.

MicroStrategy Inc. said Monday that it owns more than 105,000 bitcoins after spending $489 million on 13,005 additional tokens.

An outage at Fastly on Tuesday morning resulted in a number of top websites going offline.

Intel Corp.’s CEO reiterated on Monday that the global shortage of semiconductors could take a few years to resolve.

Big Tech and top chipmakers have formed a new lobbying group that is seeking government chip manufacturing subsidies.

Orders for durable goods, big-ticket items that last at least three years, returned to growth in March, boosting investor confidence that the U.S. economy continues to recover from its sharpest slowdown of the post-World War II era.

The e-commerce giant announced Wednesday that it will begin rolling out its new palm recognition technology, Amazon One, at Whole Foods Market stores in the Seattle area.

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire healthcare artificial intelligence software provider Nuance Communications in a deal valued at $19.7 billion, including debt.