SAN RAMON, California: Pacific Gas & Electric plans to bury 16,000km of its power lines in an effort to prevent its fraying grid from sparking wildfires when electrical equipment collides with millions of trees and other vegetation across drought-stricken California. The daunting project announced ...
YouTube said on Wednesday it had removed videos from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's channel for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak, becoming the latest tech giant to pull his pandemic pronouncements.
The World Health Organization on Wednesday (Jul 21) sought to reassure pharmaceutical companies that a proposal to suspend patent rights on Covid-19 vaccines was not a bid to "snatch" their intellecutual property rights.
Business software maker Salesforce.com on Wednesday closed its US$27.7 billion purchase of Slack Technologies Inc, a massive bet that Slack's workplace app will become popular for collaborations within and between companies.
Live audio app Clubhouse has removed its invite system so that anyone can join the platform, it said on Wednesday.
PARIS: French cyber-security watchdog ANSSI warned on Wednesday of what it said were ongoing attacks against a large number of French organizations led by the China-linked APT31 hacking group. "ANSSI is currently handling a large intrusion campaign impacting numerous French entities. Attacks ...
:Core Scientific Holding Co said on Wednesday it would go public through a merger with a blank-check company backed by BlackRock Inc, in a deal that values the cryptocurrency miner at US$4.3 billion.
Stocks and oil rose while bond yields eased on Wednesday as risk appetite returned, despite fears about rising cases of the Delta coronavirus variant worldwide and lingering concerns over inflation that had prompted an earlier flight to safety.
Five Democratic U.S. senators on Wednesday urged the Federal Communications Commission ensure Verizon's proposed US$6.9 billion acquisition of TracFone does not raise prices or impact government programs to provide access to mobile phones for low-income Americans.
SAN JOSE: Intel Costa Rica said on Wednesday that it almost doubled a proposed investment in a micro chip plant in the Central American country to US$600 million, and aims to triple the number of new jobs created over the coming months. High demand for chips led the United...
