The Nintendo Switch 2 docked with a TV behind it. Nintendo Nintendo on Thursday said its long-awaited new Switch 2 hybrid will be available this year, touting a bigger screen and controllers, as the company looks to breathe new life into its struggling hardware business. The business showed off the Switch 2 in a video trailer. The start of the clip […]
Bitcoin approaches $100,000 again as a cool inflation reading fuels risk appetite
Mustafa Ciftci | Anadolu via Getty Images Bitcoin extended its rebound on Wednesday, hovering just below $100,000 after another encouraging inflation report fueled investors’ risk appetite. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by more than 3% at $99,444.43, bringing its 2-day gain to about 7%, according to Coin Metrics. The CoinDesk 20 […]
Britain wants to become global AI leader, build domestic OpenAI rival
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a media interview while attending the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, U.S. September 25, 2024. Leon Neal | Via Reuters LONDON — The U.K is looking to build a homegrown challenger to OpenAI and drastically increase national computing infrastructure, as Prime […]
New tool will help fight health insurance denials
The Waystar team celebrates its IPO at the Nasdaq 2024 Nasdaq, Inc. / Vanja Savic Health-care payments company Waystar on Monday announced a new generative artificial intelligence tool that can help hospitals quickly tackle one of their most costly and tedious responsibilities: fighting insurance denials. Hospitals and health systems spend nearly $20 billion a year […]
TikTok creators ask followers to migrate ahead of ban to Meta, YouTube
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Before Jack Nader started posting beauty videos on TikTok in 2023, he was working as a Starbucks barista in Chicago and living at home with his parents. But after Nader, who’s now 21, started taking his videos seriously in April of that year, his TikTok account blew up. […]
Meta had to ‘bend the knee to Trump’ ahead of inauguration
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement this week that Meta would pivot its moderation policies to allow more “free expression” was widely viewed as the company’s latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump. More than any of its Silicon Valley peers, Meta has taken numerous public steps to make amends with […]
Supreme Court hears free speech arguments
Tik Tok creators gather before a press conference to voice their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” pending crackdown legislation on TikTok in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2024. Craig Hudson | Reuters The Supreme Court on Friday will hear oral arguments in […]
Billionaire Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty bids for TikTok
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Just 10 days before the U.S. ban on TikTok goes into effect, businessman Frank McCourt’s internet advocacy nonprofit Project Liberty announced Thursday it has submitted a proposal to buy the social media site from Chinese technology company ByteDance. Project Liberty and its partners, known as “The People’s Bid […]
Amazon workers in North Carolina to hold union vote next month
An Amazon employee works to fulfill same-day orders during Cyber Monday, one of the company’s busiest days, at an Amazon fulfillment center in Orlando, Florida, on Dec. 2, 2024. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo | Getty Images Amazon warehouse workers at a site in North Carolina will vote next month on whether to join a union, […]
Hims & Hers donates $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund
Hims & Hers Health has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, CNBC confirmed Tuesday. The company, which offers a range of direct-to-consumer treatments for conditions like weight loss, erectile dysfunction and hair loss, is the latest in a string of tech companies that have tried to curry favor with the incoming administration. […]