YouTube topped Netflix in terms of quarterly revenue, with the Google-owned video platform delivering $8.6 billion in advertising revenue in Q4, the company said Tuesday. For fiscal 2021, YouTube delivered $28.8 billion in advertising revenue. In the same quarter a year earlier, YouTube delivered $6.9 billion in advertising revenue, underscoring Read more…
SpaceX has rolled out a new, more powerful premium tier of its Starlink satellite internet service that’s targeted at businesses and enterprise customers. The new product, which was added to the company’s website Tuesday night, comes at five times the cost of the consumer-focused standard service: Starlink Premium requires a Read more…
An almost 500-mile long bolt of lightning that lit up the sky across three US states has set a new world record for longest flash, scientists have confirmed. The lightning bolt, extended a total of 477.2 miles (768 km) and spread across Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The previous record was Read more…
The FBI is launching roughly two China-related counterintelligence investigations about every 12 hours, Bureau director Christopher Wray told NBC News in an interview published this week. Wray is increasingly sounding the alarm on the threat posed by China’s government even as Russian troops amass at Ukraine’s border, indicating that he Read more…
Google will finally start rolling out the Gmail redesign it first showed off last year. The company is calling the interface in the update the “integrated view” because the goal is to integrate Google’s latest messaging service, Google Chat (a Slack competitor and the successor to Hangouts) and Google Meet Read more…
Germany is planning to bolster its semiconductor industry after the government thwarted the takeover of a local supplier, raising questions about the country’s technology strategy. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s administration is working on programs to invest in the chip sector, which the government considers central to Germany’s energy shift, according to Read more…
How to analyse data without revealing their secrets? Data are valuable. But not all of them are as valuable as they could be. Reasons of confidentiality mean that many medical, financial, educational and other personal records, from the analysis of which much public good could be derived, are in practice Read more…