The information economy has found its version of a casino with prediction markets. In today’s era of uncertainty, geopolitical instability, rapid technological change and other destabilizing macro forces, the ability to aggregate and price collective belief is being positioned as one of providing tangible value...
A bipartisan group of United States senators introduced a bill Thursday (Jan. 8) that would extend the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) by five years and expand its activities. The NQI was enacted in 2018 and has supported the U.S. quantum ecosystem, the emergence of dozens...
Samsung is warning that a chip shortage could drive up prices in the electronics sector. “There’s going to be issues around semiconductor supplies, and it’s going to affect everyone,” Wonjin Lee, the company’s president and head of global marketing, said in an interview in Bloomberg...
Big Tech started the new year with a series of artificial intelligence (AI) updates, including releases at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026 conference in Las Vegas, once again underscoring its omnipresence in an AI-driven world. Meta Enhances the Smart-Glasses Frontier At CES 2026, Meta...
Ocado Group is set to offer its grocery technology to more potential customers after its mutual exclusivity arrangements ended with retailers in most of the markets in which it operates, including Kroger in the United States. The company expects to add new partners in several...
The United States government reportedly paused its technology deal with the United Kingdom. The suspension of the “technology prosperity deal” comes amid rising frustration in Washington over the progress of trade discussions with the U.K., the Financial Times reported Monday (Dec. 15). The deal, announced...
Airbnb is using technology to stop disruptive parties before they start. The online marketplace for short-term rentals uses machine learning-powered “anti-party technology” to identify bookings that could be a higher risk for a disruptive party, it said in a Thursday (Dec. 11) press release. When...
Cloudflare said Friday (Dec. 5) that it resolved an incident in which its network became unavailable for several minutes earlier in the day. The company first announced what it called “Cloudflare service issues” in an 08:56 UTC Friday update on its status page, saying that...
For most of the past decade, the cloud landscape has resembled a giant, digital land grab. Hyperscalers fought for enterprise workloads one contract at a time, while the largest providers, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud foremost among them, built fortunes on tight...