Technology

If it was not already clear, securities regulators are giving Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, a laundry list of things he cannot riff about on Twitter. A revised agreement between Mr. Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission, filed in federal court in Manhattan on Friday, spells out just when Mr. Musk must […]

Exxon Mobil Corp. agreed to pay a $1.05 million penalty to settle alleged federal water pollution violations from an oil pipeline break into Montana’s Yellowstone River, according to court documents filed Friday. Approval of the agreement by U.S. District Judge Susan Watters would resolve the last outstanding federal enforcement case against the oil giant stemming

A group of Microsoft workers is demanding the company cancel a contract supplying the U.S. Army with HoloLens headsets that they say would turn real-world battlefields into a video game. Microsoft’s head-mounted HoloLens displays use augmented reality, which means viewers can see virtual imagery superimposed over the scenery in front of them. A letter signed

Magic Leap, the maker of augmented-reality goggles, has already raised $2.3 billion, an extraordinary amount for a start-up. Now it has secured yet another investment — and could raise still more cash. The company said Friday that it had garnered $280 million from NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s biggest cellphone service provider, as part of a new

Thousands of students from dozens of countries are in Detroit this week competing in the biggest youth robotics event in the world. Still, organizers of the FIRST Championship hope it gets a lot bigger. President Don Bossi (BOH’-see) says FIRST has a presence in only 12% of U.S. schools. He and others with the Manchester,

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a new “privacy-focused” vision for social networking. He promised to transform Facebook from a company known for devouring the personal information shared by its users to one that gives people more ways to communicate in truly private fashion, with their intimate thoughts and pictures shielded

SAN FRANCISCO — Slack, the workplace messaging start-up, disclosed the details of its business in an offering prospectus on Friday as it joined the parade of tech companies that plan to publicly list their shares this year. Sharing its financial results widely for the first time, Slack said that it collected $400.6 million in revenue

The Latest on measles quarantines at two Los Angeles universities (all times local): 7:25 a.m. The quarantine order for students and staff who may have been exposed to measles at two Los Angeles universities requires them to remain at home until they provide evidence of immunity or the risk period expires. The order issued this

Britain’s 92-year-old monarch on Thursday published her first photographs to the verified @theroyalfamily Instagram account from London’s Science Museum. The queen posted two archive images of a letter that Charles Babbage — who is “credited as the world’s first computer pioneer,” according to the caption — wrote to her great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert, in 1843. Perhaps

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber expects to be worth as much as $91 billion when it starts selling shares next month, making its initial public offering one of the largest in the history of the technology industry. The amended prospectus, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, kicks off the last stage of the