UnitedHealth Group said on Monday that hackers stole health and personal data of potentially a “substantial proportion” of Americans from its systems in February, as the largest U.S. health insurer scrambles to contain the damage. The intrusion at its Change Healthcare unit, which processes about 50 percent of U.S. medical claims, was one of the […]
X owner and tech billionaire Elon Musk has probed Australian prime minister on whether his government is attempting to “censor” content worldwide. In response to a post from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Mr. Musk wrote, “Just want to understand clearly. “Are you requiring this platform to censor content globally, even when that content is […]
Former President Donald Trump is poised to make over $1 billion from Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), as he stands to gain an additional 36 million shares in the firm. After TMTG went public in late March, President Trump held 78.75 million shares in the company. At the time, his […]
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has highlighted the advancements the United States has made in semiconductor manufacturing, and said she believes American and Taiwanese manufacturers have now “out-innovated” China. Ms. Raimondo, who previously served as the Democratic governor of Rhode Island, has been spearheading efforts to advance the technology—a strategic measure repeatedly pushed by the Biden […]
CAIRO—Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country’s antiquities ministry said on Sunday. The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but not on display. The artefact will be restored, the […]
The total solar eclipse has come and gone, but sky-gazers have reason to keep looking up—a meteor shower will peak this week right before a full moon rises. The bright orb may steal some of the Lyrids’ thunder, but experts have some tips on how best to view the celestial spectacle. The Lyrid meteor shower […]
An unusually hot summer has been predicted for most of the United States this year, according to weather forecasters. Warmer-than-average temperatures are expected from June through August. A summer forecast map released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on April 18 shows most of the United States bathed in shades of red or […]
NASA has warned that China could be disguising secret military operations as civilian programs in an attempt to take over parts of the moon. “We believe that a lot of their so-called civilian space program is a military program,” the space agency’s administrator Bill Nelson said. “And I think, in effect, we are in a race.” […]
In a strategic move to amplify her latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” Taylor Swift is embarking on a promotional journey through TikTok, potentially granting the social media powerhouse access to a vast array of global user accounts and their corresponding personal data. Following the release of her album at midnight Eastern time Friday, Ms. […]
Google fired 28 employees after the protests held across two of the company’s offices on April 16. The employees had staged the protests over Google’s association with the Israeli government, which involves cloud-computing services known as “Project Nimbus.” The company alerted the police after sit-in protests at offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, which […]
Apple has confirmed that it has removed Meta-owned applications WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China after being ordered to do so by the country’s top internet regulator. The tech giant told Reuters in a statement on April 19 that the Cyberspace Administration of China ordered the removal of the apps due to […]
Google is facing a civil lawsuit from a group of Japanese doctors over false information posted on the company’s Google Maps app. The lawsuit, which was filed in Tokyo District Court on April 18, is seeking 1.4 million yen—which equates to almost $9,500 in damages for over 60 medical professionals, who have claimed the company […]
As we draw closer to the Nov. 8 presidential election, a security expert is predicting how Big Tech might influence Americans to decide who wins another term in the White House. Andrew Riddaugh served as a key figure in the Presidential Advance team for all four years of President Donald Trump’s term in the White […]
Google employees in two different office locations staged protests against the company over its involvement with the Israeli government. Google signed a billion-dollar contract with Israel in 2021. The contract, known as Nimbus, operates jointly with Amazon and offers cloud computing services to the U.S. ally. The protesters organized the sit-ins across Google’s Sunnyvale, California, […]
WASHINGTON—Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy. The newly identified black hole is located about 2,000 light-years from Earth—relatively close in cosmic terms—in […]
The House Oversight Committee holds a hearing on “Academic Malpractice: Examining the Relationship Between Scientific Journals, the Government, and Peer Review” at 2:00 p.m. ET on April 16. Witnesses: Holden Thorp, Ph.D. editor-in-chief, Science Journals, American Association for the Advancement of Science *Declined to participate* Magdalena Skipper, Ph.D. editor-in-chief, Nature *Declined to participate* Richard Horton, […]
LOS ANGELES—NASA is seeking a cheaper, simpler approach to one of its top science priorities in the midst of a budget crunch–retrieving precious soil samples collected on Mars and flying them back to Earth, U.S. space agency officials said on Monday. A formal request for proposals will go out Tuesday to various NASA centers and […]
Google has begun removing California news websites from search results for some users in response to a state proposal that would require the search giant to pay media companies for linking to their content. The tech giant announced the move in a blog post on Friday, calling it a “short-term test for a small percentage […]
WASHINGTON—Two large stars residing inside a spectacular cloud of gas and dust nicknamed the “Dragon’s Egg” nebula have presented a puzzle to astronomers. One of them has a magnetic field, as does our sun. Its companion does not. And such massive stars are not usually associated with nebulae. Researchers now appear to have resolved this […]
