The US government just banned Roombas
When the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was banning “advanced robotic devices” from entering the United States,…
eBay’s bizarre cyberstalking saga ends with a $56 million settlement
eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple…
Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search?
A Georgia man was charged with a felony for allegedly wiping his phone while being questioned by Customs…
The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a “duress password” that wiped…
The US government can’t enforce its own drone ban
In Pasadena, California, there’s a cute red brick courtyard where one storefront isn’t like the rest. The glass…
The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
The Trump administration unveiled the first “Genesis Mission” grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven…
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the…
Google hit with $1 billion fine for breaking EU antitrust rules
The European Union has fined Google’s parent company Alphabet €890 million (about $1 billion) for two separate violations…
Judge pauses Paramount’s attempt to buy Warner Bros. Discovery
A judge partially granted the request from a dozen state attorneys general to temporarily place the $110 billion…
China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
China’s leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models…
America’s biggest housing law in 30 years, explained
Physicists have longed for a theory of everything, a single framework that would explain every force in the…
Taylor Farms pulls iceberg lettuce from the US market after cyclosporiasis outbreak
Food producer Taylor Farms released a statement on the Cyclospora outbreak Friday, confirming that it’s “voluntarily removing all…