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Whinstone CEO Chad Harris takes CNBC on a tour of the largest bitcoin mine in North America. Crypto companies are suddenly at the center of deal-making. The catalyst is artificial intelligence. Bitcoin mining companies have expansive data centers, with access to fiber lines and large amounts of power across the U.S. They’re exactly the types

In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Google is testing facial recognition technology for office security “to help prevent unauthorized individuals from gaining access to our campuses,” according to a description of the program that was viewed by CNBC. The initial test is taking place

Houston Chronicle/hearst Newspapers Via Getty Images | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images The City of Wichita recently had an experience that’s become all too common — its water system was hacked. The cyberattack, which targeted water metering, billing and payment processing, followed the targeting of water utilities across the U.S. in recent years. In going

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Dominika Zarzycka | Lightrocket | Getty Images Apple announced on Thursday that its self-service repair program is now available in Europe. The program, dubbed Apple Diagnostics for Self Service Repair, gives consumers the ability to test products for optimal parts functionality and identify parts that

In this article SE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT BRAZIL – 2022/03/22: In this photo illustration, a woman’s silhouette holds a smartphone with a Shopee logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shopee and its courier service Shopee

In this article SOL.CM= BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Getty Images Cryptocurrencies rose broadly, a day after bitcoin slumped to under $60,000 for the first time since early May, leading to a broad sell-off in crypto assets. Bitcoin advanced more than 3% on Tuesday to $61,741.78, according to Coin Metrics. The move coincided

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Tesla Cybertruck is unveiled at Tesla’s design studio on Nov. 21, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif.  Ringo H.W. Chiu | AP Tesla has issued two more recalls for its Cybertruck pickups in the U.S., as the automaker continues to face challenges with its newest electric

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Microsoft Teams displayed on a smartphone. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The European Union on Tuesday accused Microsoft of breaching antitrust rules with the “abusive” bundling of its Teams and Office products. “The European Commission has informed Microsoft of its preliminary view

In this article ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Oracle CEO Safra Catz, center, departs following a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2024. Chief executives from major companies including Palantir Technologies and Oracle Corp. met with senators at the Capitol Tuesday to press for US support of Israel amid its

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A photo illustration depicting the cryptocurrency bitcoin. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty Images Bitcoin continued its descent to $60,000 on Monday. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last down by more than 4% at $61,211.00, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it fell to

GUANGZHOU, CHINA – NOVEMBER 17: A GAC Aion Hyper SSR electric sports car is on display during the Auto Guangzhou 2023 at China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex on November 17, 2023 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by Chen Yihang/VCG via Getty Images) Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China

Elon Musk speaking during the Tesla Annual Shareholder’s meeting in Austin, Texas on June 13th, 2024.  Source: Tesla Inc.  Tesla’s hefty downsizing in 2023 has reduced its global headcount to just over 121,000 people, including temps, internal records suggest, indicating that the automaker has slashed more than 14% of its workforce so far this year.

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 10, 2024.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple said Friday it won’t release three recently announced features,

Musk is attending Cannes Lions this week with an aim to reassure ad groups and global brands over the future of X. Marc Piasecki | Getty Images Elon Musk on Wednesday tried to walk back remarks lashing out at advertisers fleeing his X social media platform. At the Cannes Lions advertising festival in Cannes, France,

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A worsening macroeconomic climate and the collapse of industry giants such as FTX and Terra have weighed on bitcoin’s price this year. STR | Nurphoto via Getty Images Bitcoin fell with the broader cryptocurrency market on Tuesday amid concerns about the global economy and lower

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the European Union’s sweeping rules aimed at reining in Big Tech, the bloc’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager told CNBC on Tuesday, following reports that regulators are preparing charges against the iPhone maker. In March, the European

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures during the annual developer conference event at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S., June 10, 2024.  Carlos Barria | Reuters Apple said on Monday that it has stopped issuing loans through Apple Pay Later, its buy-now-pay-later program that launched

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple Watch Series 9 Source: Apple Inc. Apple Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a blog post on Monday that the next Apple Watch will be thinner and have a larger screen. The Apple Watch Series 10 is expected to be released in September when the

Apple Watch SE is seen in a store in Krakow, Poland on April 20, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Japanese electronic parts maker TDK on Monday said it had successfully developed a material for its solid-state batteries, making a breakthrough that it estimates could deliver significantly higher performance for wearable devices. The Tokyo-based

A large hallway with supercomputers inside a server room data center.  Luza Studios | E+ | Getty Images Malaysia is emerging as a data center powerhouse in Southeast Asia and the continent more broadly as demand surges for cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Over the past few years, the country has attracted billions of dollars