Technology

Wouldn’t it be great if video game consoles went away and we could play games on any device? After all, the games — not the machines — are what we care about. That is Google’s ambition with Stadia, the streaming game service that the company plans to release on Tuesday. The product is not the […]

John Legere, the colorful and longtime chief executive of T-Mobile, will step down at the end of April after his contract expires. He will be succeeded by Mike Sievert, the president and chief operating officer of the wireless company, the company said Monday. Mr. Legere, who has been credited with reviving T-Mobile since becoming its

TOKYO — Two weeks ago, SoftBank Group of Japan announced it had lost billions on soured investments in some of the world’s biggest tech start-ups. On Monday, it said it was ready to roll the dice again. The company announced an agreement to merge its subsidiary, Yahoo Japan, with Line, a dominant messaging app company,

The European Space Agency says putting astronauts into a state of suspended animation could make it easier to reach other planets November 18, 2019, 12:55 PM 1 min read The European Space Agency says putting astronauts into a state of suspended animation could make it easier to reach other planets. The agency said Monday that

LOS ANGELES — Every three decades, or roughly once a generation, Hollywood experiences a seismic shift. The transition from silent films to talkies in the 1920s. The rise of broadcast television in the 1950s. The raucous “I Want My MTV” cable boom of the 1980s. It is happening again. The long-promised streaming revolution — the

Online services Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. have announced they are merging By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer November 18, 2019, 9:16 AM 3 min read Online services Yahoo Japan and Line Corp. have announced they are merging. Z Holdings Corp., which owns SoftBank Corp. that operates Yahoo Japan, and Naver Corp. of South Korea,

The Innocence Project, a nonprofit dedicated to clearing the innocent, seeks to allow use of DNA evidence in effort to exonerate a Tennessee man executed 13 years ago for a woman’s 1985 rape and murder November 18, 2019, 6:39 AM 4 min read Sedley Alley was strapped to a gurney and put to death in

Ford Motor’s latest offering seems like an oxymoron twice over: It’s a sport utility vehicle that’s electric … that’s a Mustang. It’s also Detroit’s biggest bet yet on a mass-market future for battery-powered cars. The big automakers have been producing hybrid and fully electric vehicles for years. But almost all have been smaller models that

WeWork is preparing to cut at least 4,000 people from its work force as it tries to stabilize itself after the company’s breakneck growth racked up heavy losses and led it to the brink of collapse, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The cuts are expected to be announced as early as this

HP said on Sunday that it had turned down a takeover offer from Xerox, rejecting a deal that would have brought together two once-formidable printing companies that have faced business difficulties as demand for printed documents and ink has waned. The cash-and-stock offer from Xerox “significantly undervalues HP and is not in the best interests