TikTok sued on Tuesday to block a new law that requires the sale of the app from its Chinese parent company or its ban from app stores and web-hosting services. About two weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed the bill, which passed both legislative chambers with broad bipartisan support. In a filing with a federal […]
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station was scrubbed Monday night when an oxygen relief valve malfunctioned during a preflight observation on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Centaur second stage. NASA announced in a blog post that the mission would now be delayed until at least Friday while the valve […]
China’s efforts to acquire U.S. technology is getting harder to detect alongside a million-dollar award used as bait to lure U.S. innovation. A new case reveals that Chinese tech giant Huawei has been secretly funding researchers at top U.S. schools, including Harvard, according to a report from Bloomberg.
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department’s (DOJ) prosecution of Google in Washington is headed toward an end with closing arguments on May 2 and 3—roughly three years since the DOJ brought the indictment and various state governments joined. Attorneys sparred on May 3 in attempts to convince D.C. Judge Amit Mehta of whether Google held an illegal and […]
AI “nudification” apps are being used by teenagers to generate and share fake explicit photos of their classmates. These apps are designed to turn regular images of people into fake revealing ones, or the app can put people’s faces onto intimate AI-generated bodies.
Apple says it is working as fast as it can to fix an issue that causes some iPhone alarms to not play a sound, or play alarms too quietly for people to wake up, leading to an outpouring of complaints online. Many who use their iPhone as their default alarm clock were met with an […]
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas to continue enforcing a law requiring online age verification to access pornographic websites. The one-sentence order was handed down by the high court without comment or public dissent on April 30. Challengers of the law argue that it compromises free speech and opens users to privacy violations. The […]
Dozens of Google workers who were fired for protesting the tech giant’s cloud deal with the Israeli government filed a complaint on Monday with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over their termination. The complaint, obtained by The Washington Post, alleges that Google violated the workers’ rights by “terminating and/or placing them on administrative leave […]
Several of the nation’s largest cellphone carriers have been collectively fined $200 million by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for illegally sharing access to customer location data without consent and failing to protect that information from unauthorized disclosures. In an April 29 press release, the FCC said that T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon violated the […]
Americans’ trust in artificial intelligence is falling. The share of employed adults with at least a bachelor’s degree who say that AI is not well-regulated is up by 25 percentage points since 2021, according to a 2024 study by the Stevens Institute of Technology.
The Supreme Court on April 29 turned away billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s attempt to contest a deal he reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that required a legal monitor to review his social media posts. Mr. Musk claimed in court papers that the SEC has been engaged in an “ongoing campaign” against […]
Through conveniences like digital purchases and streaming services, Big Tech is consuming enormous amounts of both water and electricity in the United States. In 2022, for example, data warehouses consumed 4 percent of U.S. electricity. NTD spoke to Kevin Stocklin, a reporter for The Epoch Times, the producer of the documentary “The Shadow State,” and […]
Undocking of SpaceX Dragon cargo craft from the International Space Station is scheduled at 12:45 p.m. ET on April 28. SCHEDULE: 12:45 ET – NASA coverage begins 13:05 ET – Undocking TIME AND DATE SUBJECT TO CHANGE (postponed from April 26)
SYDNEY—Elon Musk’s social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as “part of public discussion,” rejecting a regulator’s order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X’s “global government affairs” account said the video taken by an […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will serve as test pilots for Boeing’s Starliner capsule, which is making its debut with crew after years of delay. They flew from Houston […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y.—President Joe Biden traveled to upstate New York on Thursday to promote his administration’s efforts to bring chip manufacturing back to America. He announced that Micron, an American memory chipmaker, would receive $6.14 billion in federal grants through the CHIPS and Science Act, which he signed into law in 2022. Besides the direct funding, […]
PARIS—The sails of the landmark red windmill atop the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated cabaret club in Paris, fell to the ground overnight in the early hours of Thursday, much to the sorrow of tourists. “The Moulin Rouge, in 135 years of history, has experienced many adventures but it is true that for the wings, […]
WASHINGTON—Magnetars are among the universe’s most extreme objects—a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields. Once in a while, they produce enormous eruptions of gamma rays in the strongest nondestructive release of energy known in the cosmos. Scientists have now detected the most distant-known instance of one […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory […]
