(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX suffered an anomaly in one of its Crew Dragon capsules while conducting engine tests at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday, the company…
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Mir card payment system looks beyond Russia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – After Western sanctions gutted Russia’s financial system five years ago, a new bank card began appearing in the wallets of many Russians. CEO of Russian National Payment Card System…
Nintendo shares jump 13 percent after Tencent gains Switch sales approval in China
FILE PHOTO – The Nintendo booth is shown at the E3 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2017. REUTERS/ Mike Blake TOKYO (Reuters) – Nintendo shares jumped…
Facebook Decides Now Would Be A Good Time To Drop More Bad News
About a month ago, word leaked that Facebook had failed to properly store the passwords of up to 600 million users, logging and storing them in unencrypted plain text. At the time,…
Pinterest valued at $12.7 billion in IPO, sign of tech demand after Lyft struggles
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pinterest Inc’s initial public offering set the online scrapbook company’s valuation at $12.7 billion on Wednesday, above its expectations and a sign of strength for the tech IPO…
YouTube And Google Algorithms Promoted Notre Dame Conspiracy Theories
As Notre Dame burned on Monday, the internet was ablaze with conspiracy theories. Trolls made baseless claims that the flames ravaging Paris’ iconic cathedral were the result of an act of terrorism,…
Facebook’s Struggle To Manage Content Detailed In Troubling New Report
In early 2018, nearly two years after Facebook’s historically botched performance in the 2016 presidential election, the social media giant was still grappling with the fallout. It had yet to fully realize…
Far-Right Activists Are Taking Their Message To Gen Z On TikTok
As Facebook, YouTube and Twitter continue a slow purge of users who violate their policies prohibiting hate speech, some extremists kicked off those platforms have found a safe space on TikTok, the…
Foxconn’s Gou says may run for Taiwan president, step back from daily business
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Foxconn’s Chairman Terry Gou said on Tuesday he is considering whether to run for Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election, a day after Reuters reported the tycoon planned to step down…
In quest for electric supercars, engineers head to start-ups
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Rene-Christopher Wollmann, head of Mercedes-AMG’s 2.75 million euros Project One supercar program, has moved to a job at Automobili Pininfarina in a sign that innovation in high end electric…