Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Top Biden adviser seen as making tech regulation more likely
By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - President-elect Joe Biden's top technology adviser helped craft California's landmark online privacy law and recently condemned a controversial federal statute...
Nov 22, 2020
China to launch moon probe, seeking first lunar rock retrieval since 1970s
By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth's natural...
Nov 21, 2020
Twitter to hand over @POTUS account to Biden on January 20
By Aakriti Bhalla (Reuters) - Twitter Inc will transfer control of the @POTUS account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan. 20, the company said. The @POTUS account is the official account of the Pr...
Nov 21, 2020
Apple, AT&T ask for tough protection for data in Google lawsuit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple Inc and AT&T asked the judge hearing the Justice Department's lawsuit against Alphabet's Google on Friday to allow them to designate certain data in the complaint "highly ...
Nov 20, 2020
Exclusive: German draft IT security law strives for consensus on telecoms vendor risks
By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany would need to reach a consensus within government that a telecoms vendor poses a national security threat in order to exclude its equipment from national 5G...
Nov 20, 2020
Bitcoin rises to three-year peak, all-time high in sight
LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin rose to a three-year high of $18,600 on Friday, up 4.5% on the day and close to its all-time high of just under $20,000. Bitcoin has gained over 16% so far this week - its b...
Nov 20, 2020
Amazon pilot lifts stock exchanges into the cloud
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - A pilot by online giant Amazon and two stock exchanges showed how moving share trading from costly physical servers to cloud computing could save money and reduce the p...
Nov 20, 2020
Luminar to supply lidar sensors for Mobileye’s self-driving fleet
By Paul Lienert (Reuters) - Luminar Technologies, the self-driving sensor startup that is about to go public, said on Friday that it will supply laser-based lidar sensors to Intel Corp's Mobileye subs...
Nov 20, 2020
Daimler, Geely mull China as production hub for hybrid powertrains
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler AG and Geely Holding on Friday said China could emerge as a manufacturing and export hub for hybrid powertrains jointly developed for Volvo and Mercedes-Benz cars. Earlie...
Nov 20, 2020
How Airbnb’s CEO succumbed to an IPO he resisted
By Joshua Franklin and Anirban Sen (Reuters) - Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky resisted calls from his investors for years to follow the lead of other Silicon Valley unicorns and take the home rental startup ...
Nov 20, 2020
