Verizon bids more than $45 billion for licenses of the valuable mid-band spectrum in the C band auction to build its 5G network. The nation’s largest wireless carriers dominated the Federal Communications Commission’s latest 5G spectrum auction, pushing revenue to a record-shattering
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Bitcoin drops after Musk tweet, Yellen warns it’s ‘extremely inefficient’
The crypto coin takes a bit of a stumble after a long rally. Bitcoin’s recent surge in price appears to have hit a speed bump, thanks in part to a tweet from Tesla CEO Elon Musk and some words of caution from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
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Reddit and Elon Musk sparked a GameStop stock surge. Why AMC and BlackBerry are next
Online market players hatched a plan to make GameStop’s stock rocket up despite having little value, and it worked. Then Elon Musk tweeted about it too. GameStop isn’t just a store that sells video games. It’s also one of the biggest bets
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Apple’s MacBook Pro is an expensive joke, says Microsoft
In a new ad that some might find slightly sneaky, Redmond tries to explain why the Surface Pro 7 is far, far better than Apple’s sad little machine. We’re all supposed to be reaching for unity these days, but the
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Nuro set to be California’s first driverless delivery service
California has given the go-ahead for a commercial driverless delivery service for the first time. Robotics start-up Nuro plans to start its driverless delivery operations as early as next year. It previously tested its R2 vehicles in the state in
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‘Yes, people have Zoom fatigue but it’s not our fault’
Aparna Bawa says that she and fellow Zoom executives were so busy earlier this year that they had to take turns to go to bed. “Our CMO [chief marketing officer] and I… I remember back in April we would take
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The film crews being directed from a continent away
In a production studio in Kiev, Ukraine, a film director sits in front of a computer screen and yells, “Action!” Some 7,500 km (4,660 miles) away in Shanghai, China, his assistant relays the message to the crew filming a TV
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Inventors design high-tech helmets for Covid protection
For the past two months inventor Yezin Al-Qaysi has been riding the Toronto subway in Canada wearing a huge black “mad helmet”. The hazmat (hazardous materials) helmet completely encloses his head and upper torso, and has a visor that extends
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Facebook will start charging for WhatsApp Business services
Facebook said Thursday it will start charging for some of its WhatsApp for Business services. It’s a way for the encrypted messaging platform to generate meaningful revenue from WhatsApp. Facebook currently relies almost entirely on advertising on Facebook and Instagram
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Google hit by landmark competition lawsuit in US over search
The US government has filed charges against Google, accusing the company of violating competition law to preserve its monopoly over internet searches and online advertising. The lawsuit marks the biggest challenge brought by US regulators against a major tech company
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