Technology

As Republicans suffered a landslide defeat and Texas, one of the biggest losers of the U.S. midterms was not on the ballot: billionaire Elon Musk.

HP Inc. named former GSK chief and Microsoft board member Emma Walmsley as CEO to steer the PC maker through a memory-chip shortage.

Canadians using Google’s artificial intelligence tools for online shopping will have an easier time checking out with some retailers.

Students using Google software in school will not be allowed to use the company’s search tool unless their school system also provides them access to artificial intelligence tools, the tech giant said Tuesday.

Hackers stole US$6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, in a record theft that analysts pinned on North Korea and said could shake faith in digital assets.

European supermarkets targeted in a second wave of cyberattacks that cranked up fridge and freezer temperatures were rushing on Tuesday to upgrade their systems and protect themselves against further hacking attempts.

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation (SLCN) has filed three judicial reviews related to the proposed $70-billion Wonder Valley data centre campus south of Grande Prairie, Alta.

Apple shares fell about 4 per cent in premarket trading on Tuesday after the tech giant warned that rising memory costs would squeeze gross margins, stoking investor concerns over persistent supply-chain uncertainties and mounting AI expenses.

Meta said it was postponing the rollout of new terms for its business accounts after an outcry from media companies and open-web advocates.

Oracle plans to raise US$20 billion through bond and share sales, regulatory filings showed on Monday, as the software giant taps investors to fund its costly AI and cloud infrastructure build-out.

Marvell Technology is buying optical components maker Lumentum in a US$115 billion all-stock deal, including debt, as the custom chipmaker steps up its challenge to larger rival Broadcom during an AI spending boom.

Walmart Inc. has brought its AI chatbot Sparky to Canada, more than a year after the retailer first rolled out the shopping assistant in the United States.

A potentially historic drop for Alphabet’s stock is dragging the U.S. market lower after the company behind Google and YouTube reported weaker growth.

Jury selection began on Wednesday in Los Angeles for another landmark trial about the alleged harms of social media on young users, with Meta and, for the first time, Snap as defendants.

Apple CEO John Ternus unveiled the company’s first touchscreen MacBooks on Wednesday, abandoning a long-held aversion to the technology as it caps a burst of product launches ahead of the holiday shopping season.