One person is dead and four were injured, including a student, in a shooting at a hookah lounge near the Virginia Tech campus late Friday, police say. Police responded to a report of shots fired at 11:53 p.m. at the Melody Hookah Lounge on Main Street in downtown Blacksburg, Virginia, […]
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Facebook, Google and Twitter logos are seen in this combination photo from Reuters files. REUTERS Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register India ticks off tech firms for not removing “fake news”-sources Indian officials tell Google to relook at internal rules India worried takedown orders damage public image-sources […]
YouTube banned Fox News host Dan Bongino, forever deplatforming one of the internet’s most popular conservative commentators. The popular video service run by Google said Bongino tried to circumvent a one-week ban for spreading COVID-19 misinformation on one channel by posting on another channel, resulting in a permanent suspension. “We […]
In the fall of 2019, Google told the world it had reached “quantum supremacy.” It was a significant scientific milestone that some compared to the first flight at Kitty Hawk. Harnessing the mysterious powers of quantum mechanics, Google had built a computer that needed only three minutes and 20 seconds […]
Intel’s Fab 42 in Chandler, Arizona Stephen Shankland/CNET Intel has selected a 1,000-acre site in New Albany, Ohio, to be its third major US chipmaking location, with construction beginning this year and operations starting in 2025. Intel has committed to spend $20 billion on two chip fabrication facilities, or fabs, […]
As part of its 14th Five Year Plan, China plans to increase support for research and development into 6G or sixth generation internet. 6G is said to come after current 5G technology though no global standards or definition have been agreed upon yet. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket […]
If you unwrapped a brand-new iPhone or Fitbit over the holidays, what are you going to do with your old device? Or perhaps you treated yourself to a shiny new digital single-lens reflex camera or mirrorless camera on Black Friday and so you no longer need to hold onto your […]
Shares in major Chinese technology companies like JD.com Inc. and Meituan 3690 9.13% jumped Wednesday, adding to a recent rebound that suggests some investors see good value in the sector after a bruising 2021. Analysts and investors said there was no clear catalyst for the rally in Hong Kong-listed Chinese […]
Maskot/Getty Images This story is part of The Year Ahead, CNET’s look at how the world will continue to evolve starting in 2022 and beyond. If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s how to take our health into our own hands. We’ve become our own triage nurse, analyzing […]
The lack of compatibility has created long-term issues. An Apple-compatible lock isn’t useful for the family member or future tenant who prefers Android. It would also be more convenient one day if our home devices could actually talk to one another, like a washing machine telling a dryer that a […]
