Many of BlackBerry Ltd.’s mobile phones will stop reliably working on Tuesday, after the company decommissions several of its services. The Waterloo, Ont.-based business is decommissioning services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, as it transitions away from producing phones and toward being a […]
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NASA’s top scientist has worked his final days, and now he’s moving on to greener…planets? After four decades with the space agency, Jim Green has hung up his hat and is now turning his focus to his plan to make Mars a planet fit for human exploration and, perhaps, habitation. Green has held the […]
Apple Inc on Monday became the first company with a $3 trillion stock market value, lifted by investor confidence that the iPhone maker will keep launching best-selling products as it explores new markets such as automated cars and virtual reality. On the first day of trading in 2022, the Silicon Valley company’s shares hit […]
Verizon Communications and AT&T Inc said late on Monday they had agreed to a two-week delay in deploying C-Band wireless spectrum, also known as 5G, in the United States — averting an aviation safety standoff that threatened to disrupt flights starting this week. The carriers had faced pressure from the White House, airlines and […]
A U.S. jury on Monday found Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty of conspiring to defraud investors in the blood testing startup. Holmes was convicted on four of 11 counts. She was acquitted on four counts and the jury could not reach a decision on three counts. Prosecutors said Holmes, 37, swindled private investors between […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday asked AT&T and Verizon Communications to delay the planned Jan. 5 introduction of new 5G wireless service over aviation safety concerns. In a letter Friday seen by Reuters, Buttigieg and FAA Administrator Steve Dickson asked AT&T Chief Executive […]
Tesla Inc is recalling more than 475,000 of its Model 3 and Model S electric cars to address rearview camera and trunk issues that increase the risk of crashing, the U.S. road safety regulator said. Tesla shares were down 1.1% in premarket trading on Thursday. The U.S. electric vehicle manufacturer is recalling 356,309 2017-2020 […]
Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology, two of the world’s largest memory chip makers, warned that strict COVID-19 curbs in the Chinese city of Xian could disrupt their chip manufacturing bases in the area. The lockdown in the city puts further pressure on global supply chains and adds to a torturous year for exporters facing […]
Virtual home assistants are designed to make life easier for their users, but one mom has sounded the alarm after her Amazon Echo speaker recommended a very dangerous activity to her child. Kristin Livdahl shared on Twitter that Alexa instructed her 10-year-old daughter to play around with an electrical socket after she asked the […]
As the world tuned in on Christmas morning to see NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope lift off, Canadian scientists who played a crucial part in its creation were emotional. The collaboration between European and Canadian space agencies soared from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast on Saturday, riding a European Ariane rocket into […]