Artificial intelligence specialists warned the Defense Department on Thursday that China has caught up in the AI arms race and has even pulled ahead of America in some areas. The AI experts, who are working closely with the Pentagon, cautioned those attending a government-organized symposium on AI against overestimating America’s advantage in its high-tech competition […]
A substantial cellphone outage swept across the United States early Thursday, causing significant disruptions, including hindering some police departments’ ability to receive emergency 911 calls. The majority of these issues were reported by AT&T customers. DownDetector—a service that monitors outages by compiling status reports from various sources, including direct user feedback—logging nearly 32,000 problems around […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The collapse of a sand hole that killed a 5-year-old Indiana girl who was digging with her brother on a Florida beach is an underrecognized danger that kills and injures several children a year around the country. Sloan Mattingly died Tuesday afternoon at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea’s beach when a 4-to-5-foot-deep (1-to-1.5-meter) hole collapsed […]
WASHINGTON — With election season already underway, some state election officials are expressing frustration that Congress has yet to allocate federal money they have come to rely on to help cover the costs of securing their systems from attacks, updating equipment and training staff. Election officials face a long list of challenges this year, including […]
NEW YORK — Capital One Financial is buying Discover Financial Services for $35 billion, in a deal that would bring together two of the nation’s biggest lenders and credit card issuers. Discover Financial shareholders will receive Capital One shares valued at nearly $140, according to a news release issued by the companies Monday. Discover shares […]
A top Taiwanese technology expert with a front-row seat on the battle for online supremacy in the Pacific is warning that China is waging an increasingly effective and sophisticated information war to manipulate Americans online while many in the U.S. appear not to be taking the fight seriously. Ethan Tu ditched a comfortable post as […]
A new survey found that two-thirds of full-time American workers say their income has not kept up with the rate of inflation. Rasmussen Reports released new survey results on Feb. 15 showing that 66% of American adults with full-time jobs have incomes outpaced by the rate of inflation, which continues to increase (though allegedly […]
JERUSALEM — The families of two Palestinian-American teenagers killed in separate but eerily similar incidents in the West Bank say investigators from the American Embassy have visited their homes to look into the shootings. Launching American probes into the killings of Mohammad Khdour and Tawfic Abdel Jabbar reflects what appears to be a lack of […]
The U.S. isn’t the undisputed world leader in technology and innovation, according to the House Science Committee‘s top Democrat, who expressed alarm Thursday about China’s rise. Recognition that America may be losing its global edge in research and innovation is setting in among Democratic policymakers in charge in Washington. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat, said […]
NEW YORK — The Biden Administration is easing its restrictions on banking giant Wells Fargo, saying the bank has sufficiently fixed its toxic culture after years of scandals. The news sent Wells Fargo‘s stock up sharply Thursday as investors speculated that the bank, which has been kept under a tight leash by regulators for years, […]
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