Cormac McCarthy

At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp

In a second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said on Tuesday that...

Trump Tariffs Could Raise iPhone Prices, But Affordable Options Remain

On Friday, amid a tariff-induced frenzy that drove hordes of consumers to panic-buy iPhones, President Trump announced a tariff exemption on electronics like...

The Techno-Utopian Seasteaders Who Want to Colonize the Ocean

Libertarians have long looked at ocean living as the next frontier. Some wealthy men are testing the waters. Source link

What Are Rare Earth Metals, the Exports Halted by China?

For years, the Chinese government has worked to control the export of rare earths, a group of metals used in an array of...

Meta’s Antitrust Trial Begins as FTC Argues Company Built Social Media Monopoly

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, took the witness stand on Monday to defend his social media empire in a landmark antitrust...

Meta’s Antitrust Trial to Put Mark Zuckerberg, Serial Witness, to the Test Again

Seven years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, testified for the first time in Congress. After a two-week boot camp by...

What If Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp?

In 2012, when Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people thought he...

Trump Wants to Reverse Coal’s Long Decline. It Won’t be Easy.

President Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power plants, a practice that has been steadily...

What to Know About Trump’s Antitrust Efforts Against Tech Giants

The Trump administration isn’t letting up on the tech giants.On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission will face off with Meta in court over...

U.S. Prepares to Challenge Meta’s Social Media Dominance

Soon after Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, the social network skyrocketed in popularity. Roughly a decade later,...

Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics

After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that...

Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics

After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that...

How the Crypto Industry’s Political Spending Is Paying Off

At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a...

Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadioThis week, with the tech world in chaos over President...

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