‘Dune: Part Two’ Gives Sci-Fi-Obsessed Silicon Valley a Reason to Party
In a top-floor atrium in downtown San Francisco on Thursday evening, tech workers from Google, Slack, X and Mozilla mingled…
Google Settles Smaller Lawsuits as It Prepares for More Antitrust Fights
In December, Google spent $700 million to resolve states’ claims that its Play Store had strong-armed app makers into high…
American Airlines Orders 260 Planes From Airbus, Boeing and Embraer
American Airlines on Monday said it had placed an order for 260 new planes in roughly equal numbers from Airbus,…
Apple Fined $2 Billion by E.U. for Using App Store to Thwart Competition
Apple on Monday was fined 1.8 billion euros ($1.95 billion) by European Union regulators for thwarting competition among music streaming…
Anthropic Challenges OpenAI and Google With New Chatbot
The high-profile A.I. start-up Anthropic released a new version of its Claude chatbot on Monday, saying it outperforms other leading…
JetBlue and Spirit Call Off Their Merger
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines announced on Monday that they would walk away from their planned $3.8 billion merger after…
Lampang: a Thai City With Charm and Without the Crowds
Thailand is renowned among hard-charging tourists for nightlife in Bangkok, full moon parties on Koh Phangan island and hedonistic walking…
Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules
For decades, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta barreled forward with few rules and limits. As their power, riches and…
How Regulations Fractured Apple’s App Store
Since introducing the App Store in 2008, Apple has run it largely the same way across 175 countries, right down…
A New Gondola Takes Visitors to a Vanishing Alpine Glacier. Is That a Good Thing?
Claude Folmer was about 40 years old the first time he visited the Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in…