The owner of Gravity Payments became a prominent progressive figure on social media after raising the minimum pay at his company to $70,000.
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Tech’s Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades
Apple’s chief executive has gone from winning President Trump’s praise to drawing his ire, deepening the company’s woes in a very bad year.
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SpaceX Starship Loses Control on Test Flight 9 as Rocket Re-enters Earth
Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into the Atlantic Ocean, disrupting air travel.
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(BPRW) NBNA Awards $26,000 to 13 Chapters to Advance Vaccine Equity and Education
(Black PR Wire) Silver Spring, MD –The National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 NBNA Vaccine Awareness and Education Grant. Thirteen NBNA chapters have each been awarded $2,000 to implement co…
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Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site
“The biggest risk is data escape.” Eric Ingebretsen, chief commercial officer at SK TES, an IT asset disposition provider, tells me this early on during a tour of a 128,000-square-foot facility in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He will restate this a few times. A big part of this site’s pitch to its clients, including the “hyperscale” customers...
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(BPRW) ABFF 2025 Speaker Lineup Announced: Gabrielle Union, Jermaine Dupri, Ashanti, And More
(Black PR Wire) LOS ANGELES, CA – The American Black Film Festival (ABFF) today announced its 2025 Talks Series lineup, featuring conversations and panels with industry leading directors, producers, and talent, including Chris Pa…
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(BPRW) Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Joint Center Release Black Policy Playbook
(Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) and Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank, published Forward Together: Black Policy Playbook for …
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Why Making an iPhone in the U.S. Would Be So Difficult
Apple has resisted pressure to make its most important product in the United States since 2016, and instead has moved some production to India.
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Trump Threatens 50% Tariff on E.U. and 25% Tariff on Apple
The president threatened both Apple and the European Union with higher tariffs on Friday, saying trade talks with the Europeans had stalled.
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Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on AGI, Innovation and More
Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, says that “we’re quite close” to human-level artificial intelligence. After that, all bets are off.