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SAN FRANCISCO—More than a thousand Google employees have signed a letter protesting the company’s secretive plan to build a search engine that would comply with Chinese censorship. The letter calls on executives to review ethics and transparency at the company. The letter’s contents were confirmed by a Google employee who helped organize it but who […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Google has revised an erroneous description on its website of how its “Location History” setting works, clarifying that it continues to track users even if they’ve disabled the setting. The change came three days after an Associated Press investigation revealed that several Google apps and websites store user location even if users have turned off Location History. Google […]

Tesla Inc is on its way to make 8,000 Model 3 cars per week even as it burns more cash, Evercore analysts wrote in a note on Thursday, August 16, following their visit to the electric-car maker’s California facility. Tesla produced 5,031 Model 3 electric cars in the last seven days of the second quarter, […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Google’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China requires more “transparency, oversight and accountability,” hundreds of employees at the Alphabet Inc unit said in an internal petition seen by Reuters on Aug. 16. Hoping to gain approval from the Chinese government to provide a mobile search service, the company plans to block […]

Investors have told Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] it would be wise to sell off its self-driving car unit after it racked up losses of $125 million to $200 million each quarter for the past 18 months, tech news site The Information reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed person familiar with the issue. Uber did not […]

Santa Clara County prosecutors are warning residents of a blackmail scheme that aims to collect money in the form of Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency that is difficult to track. Some county residents have received letters that claim the recipient is hiding something from their families and must pay the sender to avoid having their secret revealed. […]

HSN, once known as the Home Shopping Network, is getting an image makeover. A U.S. television network where shoppers can buy everything from electronics to kitchen gadgets, HSN is overhauling its lineup to offer more beauty products while adding streamed video content to win over shoppers without cable TV. A division of Qurate Retail Group, […]

U.S. entrepreneur and cryptocurrency investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit on Wednesday against telecommunications company AT&T, accusing it of fraud and gross negligence in connection with the theft of digital currency tokens from his personal account. In a 69-page complaint filed with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Terpin alleged that on January […]

Chinese electric vehicle startup NIO on Monday filed for a $1.8 billion initial public offering of its American depositary shares, the biggest U.S. listing by a Chinese automaker. The company, backed by Chinese tech heavyweight Tencent Holdings Ltd, applied for a float of up to $1.8 billion, according to its filing with the Securities and […]

Netflix Inc Chief Financial Officer David Wells will step down after eight years in the role, the video streaming company said on Monday. Wells will remain with Netflix until his successor is found, a search that will consider both internal and external candidates, Netflix said. “Personally, I intend my next chapter to focus more on […]

Tesla Inc.’s handling of Chief Executive Elon Musk’s proposal to take the carmaker private and its failure to promptly file a formal disclosure has raised governance concerns and sparked questions about how companies use social media. Musk stunned investors last Tuesday by announcing on Twitter that he was considering taking Tesla private in a potential […]

Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s top contract electronics maker and an Apple supplier, posted surprisingly lower quarterly net profit on Monday, extending a downward streak to a second quarter in a row. The tepid results from Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd., underline a muddy outlook for sales in a plateauing global […]

BERLIN—A Munich-based start-up has taken advantage of the strong Bavarian sun this summer to test the final development of the charging system of its Sion car, an all-electric solar vehicle that lets you charge as you drive. Germany will likely miss its target of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2020 but […]

News Analysis  While the debate about artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality rages, virtual terrorists—those who operate primarily on the dark web—are getting smarter and thinking of new ways to benefit from both, creating methods to operate autonomously in this brave new world. Malware is being designed with adaptive, success-based learning to improve the accuracy […]

Def Con, one of the world’s largest hacker conventions, will serve as a laboratory for breaking into voting machines this week, extending its efforts to identify potential security flaws in technology that may be used in the November U.S. elections. The three-day “Voting Village,” which opens in Las Vegas on Friday, also aims to expose […]

The 2018 Flash Memory Summit featured a variety of big-name companies and smaller companies. Flash Memory Summit was an opportunity for these companies to meet with other companies and network with people interested in solid-state drive (SSD) technology. “A good reason to come here is just to showcase our products, meet with customers, find new customers,” […]

Apple Inc. said on Wednesday that an app belonging to popular conspiracy theorist Alex Jones remains in the company’s mobile App Store because it has not been found to be in violation of any content policies. The Infowars Official app has become the App Store’s third most-downloaded news app this week after Apple removed access on Sunday to some of Jones’ podcasts from its digital store. Apple had said the podcasts violated the […]

Shipping group Maersk said on Thursday 94 companies and organizations have so far joined a blockchain platform developed with IBM aimed at boosting efficiency and limiting the enormous paper trail of global container shipping. The industry has seen little innovation since the container was invented in the 1950s, and cross-border trade still leaves an enormous […]

The Flash Memory Summit is being held from August 7 to August 9 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The summit features trends, innovations, and influencers driving the adoption of flash memory in enterprise storage applications, as well as in smartphones, tablets, mobile, and embedded systems. It showcases the mainstream applications, key technologies, and leading […]

SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled the Galaxy Note 9 “phablet” in New York on Aug. 9 in a key product launch that it hopes will attract younger customers with stepped-up features and services for gamers and music-lovers. Launching the Note 9 at 11 a.m. in New York, or Friday midnight in Seoul, Samsung also announced […]