Google has made its pitch to shape the next decades of digital regulation across the European Union, submitting a 135-page response yesterday to the consultation on the forthcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) — which will update the bloc’s long-standing rules around ecommerce. The package also looks set to introduce specific rules for so-called “gatekeeper platforms”…
Facebook joined the growing ranks of companies publicly complaining about the 30% fee that Apple collects on payments made through its App Store. Those complaints came midway through a blog post about the social network’s new feature supporting paid online events. Facebook said that to support struggling businesses, it won’t be collecting any fees on those…
Hollywood pop stars including Katy Perry, Ne-Yo, and the Black-Eyed Peas teamed up with the left-wing Rock the Vote on Thursday for an online voter registration drive called Democracy Summer 2020, in which celebrities pushed young people to cast their ballots in November and warned them about the specters of “systemic racism,” “white supremacy,” and…
Tesla is pushing back plans to produce and deliver its all-electric Class 8 truck until 2021, the company said in its quarter earnings report Wednesday. The move puts the Tesla Semi two years behind the automaker’s previous target. “We are shifting our first Tesla Semi deliveries to 2021,” the company said without providing any more…
The long-running Folding@Home program to crowdsource the enormously complex task of solving molecular interactions has hit a major milestone as thousands of new users sign up to put their computers to work. The network now comprises an “exaflop” of computing power: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second. Folding@Home started some 20 years ago as a way —…
Huawei may have just found itself an ally in the most unexpected of places. According to a new report out of The Wall Street Journal, both the Defense and Treasury Departments are pushing back on a Commerce Department-led ban on sales from the embattled Chinese hardware giant. That move, in turn, has reportedly led Commerce…
Hollywood figures freaked out Wednesday after Senate Democrats’ amendments to bring forth witnesses at the outset of the Senate impeachment trial failed in a series of votes on Tuesday night. “I know I shouldn’t be surprised by Mitch McConnell’s coverup, but still it shocks me that a man who looks like a character from the beloved…
Peter Navarro, a senior White House adviser to President Donald Trump and the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, is out with a new White House video provided exclusively to Breitbart News calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote this month in the House on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade…
Joe Biden pushed back against those doubting his fitness for office in the wake of a string of recent gaffes by claiming he is not “going nuts.” “I want to be clear; I’m not going nuts,” the 76-year-old former vice president told an audience in New Hampshire on Friday after being unable to recollect a…
Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates and all-round bitcoin evangelist is sticking to his quarter-million-dollar price prediction. Source:PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFPCrypto bull and venture capitalist Tim Draper has disclosed that it could take a little longer for his Bitcoin price target of $250,000 to be reached.Speaking to Yahoo Finance, Draper said that while…
