Technology

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” which could allow new kinds of computers to do calculations at speeds that are inconceivable with today’s technology. In a paper published in the science journal Nature, Google said its research lab in Santa Barbara, Calif., had reached […]

WeWork is accepting a financial rescue package that hands control of the company to Japanese tech giant SoftBank and pushes aside co-founder Adam Neumann and his grandiose vision of changing the world through communal working. WeWork said in a statement that Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank will infuse the We Company with more than $5 billion

A congressman who attended Harvard at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg accused the Facebook co-founder of “rewriting history” amid an ongoing whirlwind over the social media giant’s declaration that it will not police political speech, even if it contains outright lies. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), a former Marine Corps reservist who served in Iraq,

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg hopes that one day, in the not too distant future, billions of people will use a cryptocurrency created by Facebook to send money to friends and family around the world. Mr. Zuckerberg also recognizes that his company is a major impediment to that vision. Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of

Amy Webb is a renowned futurist – she looks back at the past and scours data to figure out what might be round the corner. These are the three things she thinks are most important for us to know about right now, to help make 2030 a better place. BBC 100 Women names 100 influential

Defense Secretary Mark Esper has removed himself from decision-making on a cloud computing contract potentially worth $10 billion, citing his son’s employment with one of the original contract bidders. In a written statement Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Esper recused himself from decisions on the so-called JEDI contract “out of an abundance of caution

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress Wednesday that the company’s planned Libra cryptocurrency won’t launch unless all U.S. regulators approve. In prepared remarks released Tuesday ahead of a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee, Zuckerberg says that Facebook will not be part of launching the new digital currency anywhere in the world

Facebook’s latest foes: nearly every U.S. state. New York Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday that a state-level antitrust investigation into the social network now has the backing of a bipartisan group of 47 attorneys general. The Democrat and a handful of states launched the probe last month. It focuses on whether Facebook‘s dominance is

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Tuesday it would give $1 billion in a package of grants, loans and land toward easing California’s severe housing crunch by building an estimated 20,000 new housing units for middle- and lower-income households. The move is the latest in a series of efforts by technology companies to put their

Verizon is offering new and current customers a free year of Disney+ as the battle for streaming customers heats up. The offer extends to certain new and existing unlimited 4G and 5G customers as well as the vast majority of new home-internet customers. The promotion beginning Nov. 12 will provide access to Disney, Pixar, Marvel,