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The Department of Defense is canceling a controversial $10 billion cloud computing contract that had been awarded to Microsoft over Amazon under the Trump administration.The department announced Tuesday that it is canceling the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract that…

Changes to Hong Kong's data protection laws could force some companies to stop providing services in the city, according to an industry group that represents some of the world's top tech firms.The prospect of a retreat from Hong Kong was…

Software vendor Kaseya says that between 800 and 1,500 businesses have been compromised by the recent ransomware attack that has ricocheted around the world.Kaseya said in a statement on Monday that approximately 50 of its direct customers were breached in…

The White House on Sunday urged companies who believe their systems were compromised in the ransomware attack that targeted software vendor Kaseya to immediately report it to the Internet Crime Complaint Center."Since Friday, the United States Government has been working…

A ransomware attack on a single software vendor may have impacted as many as 1,500 businesses around the world, in the latest example of cyber criminals crippling computer systems and demanding millions of dollars to restore them.The list of high-profile…

Amazon illegally fired last year two of its corporate employees who had been vocal critics of the company, the National Labor Relations Board has found.The employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, organized workers around climate action and warehouse conditions during…

The Supreme Court has handed Google a win in a decade-old case in software development, holding that the technology giant did not commit copyright infringement against Oracle when it copied snippets of programming language to build its Android operating system.Google's…

Over the weekend, cybersecurity experts revealed that about half a billion Facebook users' personal information was breached -- a treasure trove of data the includes full names, birthdays, phone numbers and their location.Facebook said that massive leak stems from an…

LG is getting out of the "incredibly competitive" business of making smartphones.On Monday, the South Korean tech giant announced that it would close down its mobile phone unit after years of losses, marking the end of an era for a…

The personal information of about half a billion Facebook users, including their phone numbers, have been posted to a website used by hackers, cybersecurity experts say.There are records for more than 32 million accounts in the United States, 11 million…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest contract chipmaker, announced Thursday that it expects to pour $100 billion into advanced chips over the next three years to keep up with rising demand.The investment is a massive increase over the $25…

Microsoft has scored another major government contract, this time to produce augmented reality devices for the US Army.The Army announced Wednesday that it had awarded Microsoft a contract to produce augmented reality systems based on its HoloLens 2 device called…

Apple's Siri will soon stop defaulting to a female-sounding voice.The company said Wednesday that its mobile devices will ask users to pick from a range of voices when they set up the virtual assistant. Apple currently allows users to pick…

Virgin Galactic, the space tourism firm that hopes to send its first customers to space next year, unveiled a new spacecraft design on Tuesday. The sleek new space plane has a reflective coating that the company calls "mirror-like," and says…

Just eight months ago, Huawei reached its longtime goal of becoming the world's biggest smartphone maker. Now, it is not even in the top three.On Wednesday, the Chinese tech giant acknowledged that its smartphone business was suffering as US sanctions…

After years of building huge modern offices and a work culture that many industries have emulated, Silicon Valley was among the first to shutter those offices and go fully remote when the coronavirus pandemic began.Now, many of the tech industry's…

Grab the tissues.The internet is freaking out over a rumor about the possible impending death of Mario, the famous, red-wearing, Italian plumber who changed the world of video games with the release of "Super Mario Bros" 35 years ago.Let's back…

For several weeks, it's been near impossible to exist on the internet without at least hearing a mention of NFTs. Short for non-fungible tokens, they are pieces of digital content linked to the blockchain, the digital database underpinning cryptocurrencies such…

GameStop is adding to its growing list of new executives hired from Amazon and Chewy with the hope of turning the struggling, longtime mall staple into an e-commerce powerhouse.The video game retailer on Tuesday announced the hire of Elliott Wilke…