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The Michigan-based election software company Konnech filed a defamation lawsuit against the Texas-based group True the Vote in September.True the Vote had accused the company of being both “owned by the Chinese Communist Party” and involved in “subversion of our elections.” Konnech denied the allegations, though its credibility is now […]

Western suppliers have started cutting ties to some Chinese chipmakers in response to new U.S.export controls, in another sign of the partial technology divorce the Biden administration is mandating to stymie China’s military development.Get the full experience.Choose your plan ArrowRight One large supplier of chip-making equipment, ASML, told U.S.employees to […]

Enlarge this image Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has agreed to purchase the social media site Parler, the company announced on Monday.Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has agreed to purchase the social media site […]

Pete Couste said it was his wife who first noticed that he was turning up the TV louder than she liked. “I couldn’t hear the words in movies as much anymore,” admitted Couste, who lives just outside Washington, DC. Watching TV isn’t Couste’s only problem.In his church choir, he can’t […]

Saudi Arabia’s megadevelopment Neom is paying senior executives roughly $1.1 million each annually, according to an internal Neom document, showing how the kingdom is using large pay packages to lure global talent to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s national transformation plan.Neom is the most ambitious project in Saudi Arabia and […]

Apple’s new iPhone 14 has car crash detection technology, but it’s been mistakenly alerting 9-1-1 and causing relatives to panic, only for there to be no real danger..

New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing farm animals’ greenhouse gas emissions as part of its efforts to reduce the pollution that is causing climate change. The tax would be the world’s first on animal emissions, including those from burps and urination, which contribute to rising global temperatures.The plan, according […]

Researchers put radio backpacks on bumblebees in Tasmania in insect-tracking trial A team of researchers are attaching radio transmitters to bumblebee queens in Tasmania’s far south to learn how they could be interacting with native species, and to test the limits of insect-tracking technology. Key points: Invasive bumblebees in Tasmania […]

CHICAGO — The secret to a more secure and powerful internet — one potentially impossible to hack — might be residing in a basement closet seemingly suited for brooms and mops.The 3-foot-wide cubby, in the bowels of a University of Chicago laboratory, contains a slim rack of hardware discreetly firing […]

Tom Cruise Might Actually Be Going to Space for Upcoming Film Over two years after it was first reported that Tom Cruise might shoot a film aboard the International Space Station, it appears that the actor is inching closer to becoming “the first civilian to do a spacewalk.” Back in […]