Apple Inc. is planning a new service that will let small businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The news could spell trouble for Square.

Google drops FLoC, reveals new Topics initiative to replace cookies.

Amazon’s influence campaign was widely mocked

The short-form video app will encourage users to visit an authoritative website about the Holocaust.

Machine was ‘significantly better’ than humans at tricky procedure to connect two ends of intestine

You probably won't have to subscribe for heated seats in your Ford, but that doesn't mean all subscriptions are off the table.

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The 'GFT' collection is being created to celebrate its 50th anniversary…

Elon Musk has been promising that cars are about to be fully autonomous for years — a promise he made once again on the Tesla's latest earnings call.

People are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into metaverse land, but experts told Insider it's not the same thing as real-world real estate.

The surge of interest in the new subreddit follows a storm that emerged on Wednesday after moderators for r/antiwork made the group private.

A tacked-on provision aims to let the Treasury block cryptocurrency transactions it believes are tied to money laundering.

The particle was found by smashing billions of lead atoms into each other at extreme speeds.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered $5,000 to a 19-year-old to shut down a Twitter account that tracks his private flights, the teenager

There’s a new study regarding what Generation Z is into, and it shows that 87% of teens in the US have an iPhone, which is an absolutely staggering percentage of young people.

Washington's attorney general said Amazon "unreasonably restrained competition in order to maximize its own profits off third-party sales."

The White House on Thursday unveiled a plan to beef up cybersecurity in the nation's water sector, an extension of its efforts to thwart attacks against critical infrastructure including electricity and natural gas pipeline operators.

Microsoft's Teams communications and collaboration platform topped 270 million monthly active users in the December quarter, continuing to add users but at a much slower pace than in the initial…

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China Unicom is the latest Chinese company to be banned in the US over national security concerns.