Google signed a contract last year with Amazon to provide cloud services to the Israeli government. Israel is using the contract in various government agencies for purposes such as education, health care, and transportation. Many Google employees have argued that…
The year is 2030. Most humans have been replaced by machines in U.S. warehouses and factories. Millions of Americans are out of work and struggling to find jobs as robots pack, sort, ship, and carry out the myriad duties that…
Facebook made the metaverse a kitchen table topic when it changed its name to Meta. What is the metaverse, exactly? It’s a virtual world where you can be Snoop Dogg’s neighbor without physically living next to him — yes, you…
What are we to make of Taylor Lorenz condemning those who challenge her views on social media as universally hateful (to the point of causing her PTSD) while almost simultaneously “outing” the semi-anonymous Libs of TikTok account’s owner? Taylor Lorenz…
The entire world is atwitter with Elon Musk’s proposed buyout of Twitter. If Twitter accepts Musk’s proposal, it will allow the free market to ensure a marketplace of ideas in big tech rather than employing big government to do so….
In its invasion, Russia still possesses, for the time being, a multitude of material advantages over Ukraine. Its air force fields more planes and launches more sorties, though it has largely failed to achieve air supremacy. Its navy has blockaded…
Last Sunday evening, tech billionaire and entrepreneur extraordinaire Elon Musk tweeted, “Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart dormant nuclear power stations and increase power output of existing ones.” His full-throated support for nuclear energy comes at…
The Senate Judiciary Committee has dispatched a blitzkrieg on consumer security and privacy in the tech sector. It has in the last month rubber-stamped the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and the Open App Markets Act, justifying reckless market…
Facebook, now Meta Platforms, has just announced its cryptosetback, as reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The Switzerland-based consortium, formed in 2019 by Facebook to promote a cryptocurrency known as Libra, is selling its technology to Silvergate Capital Corporation…
So much for starting out 2022 in the spirit of unity. The nation’s leading newspaper used the fresh beginning of New Year’s Day to once again insist that Donald Trump and his supporters are an existential threat to our beloved,…