Jeff Bezos reignites battle for NASA moon contract
Jeff Bezos is offering NASA up to $2 billion in a bid to reignite the battle for space between his rocket company Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.…
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Jeff Bezos offers NASA $2 billion to get Blue Origin back in the moon race
By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business Jeff Bezos wants to spot NASA up to $2 billion in a bid to reignite the battle for space between his rocket company…
Continue ReadingWeChat suspends new user registrations as China cracks down on tech
By Eric Cheung and Hanna Ziady, CNN Business WeChat is suspending all new user registrations until early August, the popular social messaging app…
Continue ReadingActivision Blizzard employees sign petition denouncing company’s ‘abhorrent’ response to lawsuit
By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Pressure on Activision Blizzard is mounting as more than 2,000 current and former employees signed a petition slamming…
Continue ReadingGlobal phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
The Washington Post’s Dana Priest talks about the sophisticated technology used to spy on journalists, activists and two women linked to Jamal…
Continue ReadingGlobal phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
By Hadas Gold, CNN Business Audacious Mossad spy operations around the world. The plucky “startup nation” home to reams of billion-dollar…
Continue ReadingGlobal phone hacks expose darker side of Israel’s ‘startup nation’ image
Journalists from 17 news outlets are working together to expose evidence of spyware that specifically targets journalists, activists and politicians,…
Continue ReadingHow Taiwan is trying to defend against a cyber ‘World War III’
By Eric Cheung, Will Ripley and Gladys Tsai, CNN Business As China steps up military pressure on Taiwan, the self-governing island is preparing for…
Continue ReadingSoftware company’s unveiling of decryption key comes too late for many victims of devastating ransomware attack
By Brian Fung, Natasha Bertrand and Alex Marquardt, CNN On Thursday, the software company Kaseya announced that it could help unlock any of its…
Continue ReadingAmazon hires outside investigators after employee petition alleges discrimination and harassment
By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Amazon has hired outside investigators to probe the internal culture of part of its cloud computing…
Continue ReadingA reporter tried the AI Instagram wants to use to verify age. Here’s what it found
CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Instagram is testing new ways to verify its youngest users’ ages, including by using artificial…
Continue ReadingWant your unemployment benefits? You may have to submit to facial recognition first
By Rachel Metz, CNN Business After being let go from his job as a software quality-assurance engineer in April, Eric Watkins said he filed for…
Continue ReadingSoftware vendor caught up in ransomware attack obtains decryptor key
By Brian Fung and Geneva Sands, CNN Business Kaseya, the software firm whose remote access tool was used to deliver REvil ransomware to hundreds of…
Continue ReadingMassive internet outage: FedEx, Delta and McDonald’s go down
By Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Business A sweeping internet disruption on Thursday briefly took out a wide range of major corporate websites —…
Continue ReadingTikTok, Biden administration agree to drop litigation over Trump-era app store ban
By Brian Fung, CNN Business TikTok and the US government agreed on Wednesday to drop a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s attempt…
Continue ReadingThe FTC vows to ‘root out’ illegal repair restrictions on phones, fridges, tractors and more
By Brian Fung, CNN US regulators are vowing to make it easier for consumers and independent service shops to repair commercial products like…
Continue ReadingCalifornia sues Activision Blizzard, alleging culture of sexual harassment
By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Business California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against one of…
Continue ReadingElon Musk says he’s invested in bitcoin and wants to ‘see it succeed’
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Tesla founder Elon Musk is one of the loudest voices in the cryptocurrency world. He frequently uses his massive…
Continue ReadingBitcoin and crypto’s ‘Elon Musk problem’
When Elon Musk tweets, the crypto world listens. CNN’s Jon Sarlin explores the contradictions of crypto’s decentralized networks alongside the very…
Continue ReadingJeff Bezos and Richard Branson went to space. What’s next?
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson each took a spin in their supersonic, suborbital rockets over the past two weeks,…
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