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This article is part of the On Tech Newsletter. Here is a collection Past columns, $ 3,000,000,000,000. The total value of Apple’s stock on Monday was (in short). It was valued at $ 2.93 trillion as of Wednesday morning – still a Bonkers number that no company has reached before. Milestone is a useful moment…

OpenSea, one of the most talked about blockchain start-ups in Silicon Valley, said Tuesday it has raised $ 300 million in new venture capital, making it the latest company to cash in on the rush to fund cryptocurrency start-ups. A new round of funding led by investment firms Paradigm and Cotu Management has raised the…

They were committing shocking thefts, lacking a clear purpose or return, and that happened in Gentle, not in a particularly attractive world for publication: someone was stealing unpublished book manuscripts. Thefts and thefts were attempted primarily by email, by a fraudster pretending to be publishing professionals and targeting writers, editors, agents, and literary scouts who…

Lack of consistency has created long-term problems. Not suitable for Apple-compatible folk family members or prospective tenants who prefer Android. If our home appliances can really talk to each other, one day it will be more convenient, as the washing machine tells the dryer that a large load is ready to dry. This year, the…

Tech cars can’t fix dependency issues: For a long time, I was excited about transportation-related technologies, including applications that made it easier for people to take Uber to a train station or drive a scooter for the last mile to get to work from a bus stop. I thought they would help free the cities…

This article is part of the On Tech Newsletter. Here is a collection Past columns, People have been predicting the demise of cable TV for a long time, but this could be it. More than a decade ago, almost all Americans – over 85 percent of U.S. households – paid for packages from cable or…

A lawsuit has been filed against Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms over the 2020 killing of a federal security guard, aimed at challenging federal law that protects websites and social media platforms from liability for what users post. A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the guard’s sister, Angela Underwood Jacobs, argued that Facebook was responsible for…

For most of last year, established automakers such as General Motors and Ford Motor operated in a different reality from Tesla, the electric car company. GM and Ford shut down one factory after another due to a shortage of computer chips – sometimes for months at a time – because dealer lots were empty and…

The video platform that Mr. Zhao, iQiyi, had an extraordinary quarter, losing about $ 268 million. Its share price fell 85 percent from its peak in 2021, reflecting investors’ concerns that the company, once aspiring to become China’s Netflix, would lack a show that could attract more subscribers and advertisers. “The biggest problem for our…

He completed his medical education at Tufts University in 1965 and completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, then experimenting with an early telemedicine program that connected him to the clinic at Boston’s Logan Airport via television camera. He was asked to look into some cases and he said, “It’s stuck in my mind.” In…