Inside a secretive set of buildings in Santa Barbara, California, scientists at Alphabet are working on one of the company’s most ambitious bets yet. They’re attempting to develop the world’s most advanced quantum computers. “In the future, quantum and AI, they could really complement each other back and forth,” said Julian Kelly, director of hardware […]
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An employee walks past a quilt displaying Etsy Inc. signage at the company’s headquarters in the Brooklyn. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images Etsy is trying to make it easier for shoppers to purchase products from local merchants and avoid the extra cost of imports as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs raise concerns about soaring
Jason Citron, CEO of Discord in Washington, DC, on January 31, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The New Jersey attorney general sued Discord on Thursday, alleging that the company misled consumers about child safety features on the gaming-centric social messaging app. The lawsuit, filed in the New Jersey Superior Court by attorney
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The Global Payments Company logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Igor Golovniov | LightRocket | Getty Images Global Payments shares tumbled 17% on Thursday after the company said it’s buying Worldpay for more than $24 billion while simultaneously selling its Issuer Solutions business to Fidelity National Information Services. The company said that in acquiring Worldpay,
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Array from Precision Neuroscience. Source: Precision Neuroscience Neurotech startup Precision Neuroscience on Thursday announced that a core component of its brain implant system has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a major win for the four-year-old company. Precision is building a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, which is a system that decodes
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Google’s Munich headquarters on Jan. 31, 2025 in Munich, Germany. The company’s development center is located in Arnulfpark. More than 2,500 employees work for the US company at various locations in Germany. Matthias Balk | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Alphabet‘s Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a federal judge said on Thursday, dealing
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A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Daniel Ceng | Anadolu | Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company denied reports that the semiconductor giant was in active discussions with Intel
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A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Daniel Ceng | Anadolu | Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Thursday beat profit expectations for the first quarter, thanks to a
Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing to examine claims of voter irregularities in the 2020 election, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2020. Jim Lo Scalzo | Reuters A week ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive
In just 17 days after launch, Temu surpassed Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat and Shein on the Apple App Store in the U.S., according to Apptopia data shared with CNBC. Stefani Reynolds | Afp | Getty Images Chinese online retailer Temu, whose “Shop like a billionaire” marketing campaign made its way to last year’s Super Bowl, has
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