• How Benjamin Franklin tried—and failed—to form a union

    How Benjamin Franklin tried—and failed—to form a union

    It was a concept borrowed from the Iroquois, and one that America never quite mastered.
  • Water may naturally occur as rocky planets form, new study suggests

    Water may naturally occur as rocky planets form, new study suggests

    An ancient Martian meteorite carries with it some compelling implications.
  • Virgin Hyperloop completes world's first human test

    Virgin Hyperloop completes world's first human test

    How many hurdles stand in the way of hyperloops becoming a commercial reality?
  • Home-security startup Ring recalls doorbells that can catch on fire

    Home-security startup Ring recalls doorbells that can catch on fire

    The camera-equipped doorbells' batteries can overheat if the wrong screws are used to mount them, the Amazon-owned company said in a recall notice.
  • TikTok’s deal with Oracle may not include app’s key algorithm

    TikTok’s deal with Oracle may not include app’s key algorithm

    TikTok’s Chinese parent company reportedly doesn’t want to sell its signature algorithm — meaning Oracle’s deal to take over parts of the app may not include its secret sauce. The American software giant has struck a deal to become TikTok’s so-called technology partner ahead of the Trump administration’s looming deadline for Beijing-based ByteDance to sell …
  • US sanctions on Huawei hit chip supply and growth, exec says

    US sanctions on Huawei hit chip supply and growth, exec says

    A Huawei executive says that recent US sanctions against the company have caused a shortage of computer chips for the company, hurting the growth of its smartphone business. Richard Yu, president of Huawei Technologies’ consumer business, said at a company conference for developers on Thursday that the company has still managed to gain a 51 …
  • China adopts new rules that thwart TikTok sale ahead of US ban

    China adopts new rules that thwart TikTok sale ahead of US ban

    China appears to be putting up roadblocks to TikTok parent ByteDance’s efforts to divest the video-sharing app’s US operations to comply with President Trump’s orders to sell it to a US company by September 15 or see it shut down in the US. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce added 23 items Friday to a list …
  • Peter Thiel’s Palantir reveals $580 million losses in bid to go public

    Peter Thiel’s Palantir reveals $580 million losses in bid to go public

    Big-data firm Palantir revealed it lost more than half a billon dollars in each of the last two years as it prepared to go public. The secretive data-mining titan co-founded by tech tycoon Peter Thiel pulled back the curtain on its finances in a Tuesday filing for a direct listing that showed net losses of …
  • Controversial trading app Robinhood now worth $11.2B

    Controversial trading app Robinhood now worth $11.2B

    Love it or hate it, Robinhood is now worth more than $11 billion. The controversial trading app announced on Monday that it raised a new $200 million round of funding that now values the startup at $11.2 billion. Robinhood’s newest windfall, its second major round this year, comes months after the app and its more …
  • TikTok Collected User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google

    TikTok Collected User Data Using Tactic Banned by Google

    TikTok collected user data from millions of smartphones using a tactic banned by Google and without notifying users for over a year before the Chinese video-sharing app ended the practice last year. TikTok tracked the unique MAC (media access control) addresses of Androids, which are often used for advertising purposes, and concealed its activity with …