WASHINGTON—NASA officials said on Wednesday the two astronauts delivered to the International Space Station in June by Boeing’s Starliner could return on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon in February 2025 if Starliner is still deemed unsafe to return to Earth. The U.S. space agency has been discussing potential plans with SpaceX to leave two seats empty on […]
Apple’s lucrative deal with Google could be under threat after a U.S. judge ruled that the Alphabet-owned search giant was operating an illegal monopoly. A potential remedy for Google to avoid antitrust actions could involve terminating the agreement, which makes its search engine a default on Apple devices, Wall Street analysts said on Tuesday. Google […]
NASA is delaying its next astronaut launch to buy more time at the International Space Station for Boeing’s troubled new crew capsule. The space agency said Tuesday it’s bumping SpaceX’s four-person flight from this month to next. It’s now targeted for Sept. 24 at the earliest. Officials said that will give them more time to […]
A federal judge ruled “Google is a monopolist” after a lengthy legal battle between the company and the Justice Department in league with multiple state attorneys general. NTD spoke with trial attorney Jeremy Rosenthal about the case that addressed Google’s search engine and online advertising business.
TikTok withdrew a rewards program it had been offering from the European market amid European Union nations’ concerns for users’ mental health just days after the U.S. Department of Justice sued TikTok over child privacy concerns. NTD spoke with social media professor Andrew Selepak to find out more on the latest challenges TikTok is facing.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, X, and SpaceX, has reignited a legal battle against OpenAI and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, months after initially dropping his lawsuit. The revived complaint, filed Aug. 5 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses the defendants of multiple counts, including fraud, […]
Elon Musk’s X social media platform filed an antitrust lawsuit against Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), a cross-industry organization that includes the likes of Mastercard, Protcer & Gamble, and Unilever, accusing the group of a “massive advertiser boycott” against X. X CEO Linda Yaccarino also confirmed Tuesday in an open letter to advertisers that […]
Cutting-edge weapons powered by artificial intelligence are emerging as a global security hazard, especially in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to several experts. Eager to militarily surpass the United States, the CCP is unlikely to heed safeguards around lethal AI technologies, which are increasingly dangerous in their own right, the experts […]
In the closest finish ever seen in the 100 meter dash at the Paris Olympics, U.S. sprint star Noah Lyles took the gold medal by a minuscule five-thousandths of a second from Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson—an indiscernible difference were it not for some brand new technology. In addition to highly accurate electronic photocells, a camera shooting […]
A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet and the closest to the sun, according to new research. The diamonds might have formed soon after Mercury itself coalesced into a planet about 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling […]
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-21 Cargo resupply mission launches to the International Space Station (ISS) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 10:45 a.m. ET on Aug. 4. SCHEDULE: 10:45 ET—NASA TV coverage begins 11:02 ET APPROX—Launch scheduled
China’s strict audits and censorship of speech and other freedoms are known worldwide. But now, a digital ID system is making waves. It’s designed to locate the names, faces, and personal info behind social media posts. And it’s being seen as the harshest of its kind. An expert on China affairs sheds light on the new […]
Chipmaker Intel says it is cutting 15 percent of its huge workforce—about 15,000 jobs—as it tries to turn its business around to compete with more successful rivals like Nvidia and AMD. In a memo to staff, Intel Corp. CEO Pat Gelsinger said Thursday the company plans to save $10 billion in 2025. “Simply put, we […]
A U.S. appeals court on Aug. 1 temporarily blocked the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) reinstatement of Obama-era net neutrality regulations that would reclassify broadband internet. The court found that several broadband companies will likely succeed in a legal challenge against reinstating the FCC rules that would classify broadband internet providers as common carriers and subject them […]
Meta shares rose and remained high after Meta reported a strong quarter with stable next-quarter projections. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says investments in AI are already paying off financially. Zuckerberg gave details on his plans to invest in new AI technology.
Austin-based Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike is facing a class action lawsuit from shareholders who claim the company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause a global computer outage, resulting in a big hit to the share price and overall market value. On July 19, an outage, allegedly sparked by a software update, […]
After two record-breaking years of sea turtles nesting on Florida beaches, researchers say they’re optimistic about the future of marine life. But this year, their nesting season coincides with what’s predicted to be a more active than normal hurricane season. NTD’s Natasha Holt got down with researchers to learn about how the extreme weather this […]
WASHINGTON—In the moments before NASA’s DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a landmark planetary defense test in 2022, it took high-resolution images of this small celestial object and its larger companion Didymos. These images have enabled scientists to unravel the complicated history of these two rocky bodies located in the vicinity of Earth […]
The Senate has passed the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children’s and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act. One requires social media companies to provide better protection for users under the age of 17 and the other requires stronger online privacy for minors. If the bill becomes law, how would social media companies implement these […]
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas over its unauthorized capture and use of the personal biometric data of Facebook users, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced Tuesday. In a 2022 lawsuit, Mr. Paxton accused Facebook’s parent company of using facial recognition technology […]
