How the U.S. tries to keep the country safe and competitive as the future of technology becomes less American.
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Zillow, facing big losses, quits flipping houses and will lay off a quarter of its staff.
The real estate website had been relying on its algorithm that estimates home values to buy and resell homes. That part of its business lost about $420 million in three months.
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Starlink nightmare: Moving service location a few feet delays orders until 2023
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish. (credit: Starlink) Some people who preordered Starlink broadband say they made tiny changes to their service locations on the Starlink website and immediately had their delivery dates delayed by a year or more. This isn’t a case of changing an address from one city to another; people say that using...
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Roblox Goes Down, Forcing Children Outside for Halloween
After three days offline, the popular gaming site said Sunday that it was back. In the meantime, children were freaking out.
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Learning to Live With Mark Zuckerberg
Journalists and tech executives seem to be fighting each other to a draw in a battle that has no end in sight.
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Amazon’s satellite launch schedule puts it nearly 4 years behind Starlink
Enlarge / Illustration of an ABL RS1 rocket that will carry Amazon broadband satellites. (credit: Amazon) Amazon plans to launch its first prototype broadband satellites in Q4 2022, which would be nearly four years after SpaceX launched its first prototype Starlink satellites. “This morning, we filed an experimental license application with the Federal Communications Commission...
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SpaceX: Chip shortage is impacting “our ability to fulfill” Starlink orders
Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish’s printed circuit board. (credit: Ken Keiter) If you ordered Starlink broadband service and don’t receive your “Dishy McFlatface” satellite dish any time soon, the global chip shortage may be one reason why. “Silicon shortages have delayed production which has impacted our ability to fulfill orders. Please visit your Account...
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Dell spins off $64 billion VMware as it battles debt hangover
Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) PC pioneer Michael Dell is set to cap his climb back to the top of the computing world on Monday with one of the largest corporate spin-offs. Dell Technologies will shed its 81 percent stake in publicly traded VMware, creating an independent software company with a stock market value...
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Why Did Facebook Become Meta?
If his new strategy works — a big if — it could help address several of Facebook’s biggest problems.
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John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans
John Carmack, seen here wearing an early prototype Oculus Rift headset. Oculus consulting CTO John Carmack has been bullish on the idea of “the metaverse” for a long time, as he’ll be among the first to point out. But the id Software co-founder spent a good chunk of his wide-ranging Connect keynote Thursday sounding pretty...