Technology

Members of Gen Z take .5 selfies. Courtesy of Duncan Grant, Rebecca Smith, Rachel Aquino and Gabriel Lesser. When 16-year-old Riley Galfi met an artist she loves at a concert back in May, she didn’t ask to take any ordinary selfie with him, she asked to take a .5 selfie. In a flash, Galfi flipped

In this article MSFT GOOG GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this illustration, a Google logo is displayed on a smartphone. Omar Marques | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images If you Google your name, address or phone number, you might be surprised by the number of results you see with your

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI executives, CNBC has confirmed. The commitment involves a $500 million upfront cash infusion and an additional $1.5 billion to be invested

In this article AAPL GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai (L) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) listen as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a roundtable with American and Indian business leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2023. Anna Moneymaker

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, departs from federal court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 2, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images In the high-stakes cloud-computing battle, Microsoft is outpacing its top rivals. Third-quarter results are in for most mega-cap tech companies after a

Courtroom sketch showing Sam Bankman Fried questioned by his attorney Mark Cohen. Judge Lewis Kaplan on the bench Artist: Elizabeth Williams Sam Bankman-Fried took the stand in a New York courtroom on Thursday, as he and his defense team auditioned their best legal material for U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. The former crypto billionaire had

In this article GOOG GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google Maps Immersive view Google Google Maps is expanding preexisting features and unveiling some new ones, according to a Thursday announcement. The company said artificial intelligence allowed for improvements to Google Maps’ EV charging station feature, more specific recommendations of nearby activities and more

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, attends a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2023. Stefani Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images Meta is set to report third-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday. Here are the

In this article MSFT GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google CEO Sundar Pichai Getty Images Shares of Alphabet dipped about 8% Wednesday morning, a day after the company posted third-quarter earnings that missed analyst estimates for Google Cloud revenue. The company beat Wall Street expectations for both revenue and earnings per share, but

In this article META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general is suing Meta over addictive features aimed at kids and teens, the AGs announced Tuesday. The support from so many state AGs of different political backgrounds indicates a significant legal challenge to Meta’s business. Meta is now facing

In this article GOOG GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A woman passes the Google logo during the digital society festival re:publica at the Arena Berlin in Berlin, Germany, on June 9, 2022. Annegret Hilse | Reuters You can remove your phone, email and home address from the Google Search that appears when you

“We call today’s children ‘Generation AI’ because they are surrounded by AI almost everywhere they go, and AI models make decisions that determine the videos they watch online, their curriculum in school, the social assistance their families receive, and more,” Seth Bergeson, fellow at the World Economic Forum who led their “AI for Children” project,

In this article META MSFT TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andreesen Horowitz partner Marc Andreesen speaks during the Fortune Global Forum. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images Technologists and advocates are again set to visit Capitol Hill on Tuesday to discuss with Senate leaders the perils and promises of artificial

In this article 2317-TW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Hon Hai Group’s headquarters, in Taipei, Taiwan, 15 July 2021. Ceng Shou Yi | Nurphoto | Getty Images Apple supplier Foxconn, officially known as Hon Hai, said it will cooperate with Chinese authorities on investigations, following a report that officials are conducting tax audit inspections

Tristan Fewings | Getty Images Paddy Cosgrave, the CEO and co-founder of annual tech conference Web Summit, has resigned from his post after coming under fire for his comments on the Israel-Hamas war, leading Big Tech guests like Alphabet, Meta and Amazon to cancel their attendance. “Unfortunately, my personal comments have become a distraction from

In this article GOOG AVGO AAPL GOOGL META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An attendee uses a Meta Platforms Inc. Quest 3 virtual reality (VR) headset during an event in San Francisco, California, US, on Sept. 18, 2023.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday agreed to

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of trucking logistics startup Convoy and a former Amazon executive, speaking at the CNBC Technology Executive Council summit it New York City on Oct. 29, 2019. Astrid Stawiarz/CNBC Digital freight broker Convoy told employees Thursday that it’s shutting down operations due to a “massive freight recession.” The move comes just

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks with CNBC on May 16, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Tesla is set to report third-quarter results after the bell on Wednesday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG, formerly known

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, June 16, 2023. Chesnot | Getty Images X, formerly Twitter, will begin a test that charges new users $1 annually in order to “post & interact with other posts,”

Daniel de la Hoz It’s no secret that Generation Z grew up surrounded by technology, but the way these youngsters use certain features and gadgets may surprise you. Generation Z, commonly referred to as Gen Z or Zoomers, is made up of people born after 1997, according to the Pew Research Center. They have already