Coinbase rides cryptomania to a $1.6 billion quarterly profit.
Coinbase has shown that a large, profitable and legal business can be built to service the growing groups of people who want to use...
Year: 2021
Tech Can’t Fix It
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Climate change and other big problems won’t be solved by tech alone.Read More
Google to Increase Privacy for Teenagers in Search and on YouTube
The tech giant becomes the latest to adopt tougher standards as the industry comes under fire for not doing enough to protect children.Read More
BMW Has Fallen Behind in the Electric Vehicle Race
Unlike its global rivals, the German carmaker has not set a date to phase out gas-powered cars, and investors aren’t pleased. BMW says its...
Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for 7 days over vaccine misinformation.
Ms. Greene violated Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy with a tweet on Monday, the platform said. She could be permanently barred if she violates the...
Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion
The company, founded by scientists at M.I.T., has been testing an extremely powerful magnet necessary to generate immense heat.Read More
Inside the White House-Facebook Rift Over Vaccine Misinformation
Frustrations grew behind the scenes among top leaders on both sides, potentially hurting the government’s efforts to overcome the pandemic.Read More
Virus Misinformation Spikes as Delta Cases Surge
Researchers have recorded a new burst of false and misleading information about the coronavirus after a decline in the spring.Read More
President Biden has made conversion to E.V.s a pillar of climate policy. But government incentives mostly help affluent buyers, not average families.Read More
Fueled by Gen Z, text-heavy meme posts, often paired with nonsensically unrelated pictures, are turning the photo and video app into a destination for...