Enlarge / Donald Trump. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 101 with 76 posters participating Share this story The Trump White House is rumored to be working on a beefed-up open access mandate. The potential executive order would require all scientific papers that are based on federally funded research to be made available online ..
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Enlarge / Wing Aviation, a “moonshot” project of Google’s Alphabet, delivers a package to a customer in October 2019. Wing was the first drone operator sanctioned by the FAA to deliver packages to customers, but a large scale deployment of technology like this depends on better location tracking systems. Logan Cyrus/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader ..
Enlarge / An Amazon Prime-branded delivery van and driver. reader comments 71 with 54 posters participating Share this story Amazon is rapidly dispensing with carriers such as FedEx for its retail deliveries, bringing the logistics business in-house to ship more Prime packages more quickly. The speed and money savings, though, seem to be coming at ..
Enlarge / Travis Kalanick in 2018. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images reader comments 53 with 30 posters participating Share this story Travis Kalanick is leaving the board of Uber, the company he cofounded a decade ago and ran until his 2017 ouster. A spokesperson told CNBC that Kalanick has sold all of his remaining Uber stock, estimated ..
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in April 2018. It wasn’t his only appearance in DC this decade. reader comments 54 with 25 posters participating Share this story Ars Decade in Review: The 2010s View more stories By the end of 2009, Facebook—under the control of its then 25-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg—was ..
Enlarge / T-Mobile CEO John Legere (left) and then-Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure during an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on April 30, 2018. reader comments 72 with 54 posters participating Share this story Federal regulators that want to let T-Mobile complete its acquisition of rival wireless carrier Sprint are pushing ..
Enlarge / Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg testifies before Congress on October 30, 2019. Alex Wong/Getty Images reader comments 273 with 126 posters participating Share this story Dennis Muilenburg is out as CEO of Boeing, the company announced on Monday. Multiple news organizations are reporting that Boeing’s board decided to fire Muilenburg over the weekend. Muilenburg’s ..
Enlarge / The Blind Justice statue standing outside of District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story A jury in Virginia awarded some of the largest names in the music recording industry a whopping $1 billion in damages from Cox Communications, finding ..
Enlarge / The Facebook logo is displayed on a TV screen on September 9, 2019 in Paris, France. reader comments 47 with 31 posters participating Share this story Facebook on Friday removed what it called a global network of more than 900 accounts, pages, and groups from its platform and Instagram that allegedly used deceptive ..
Enlarge / Pennsylvania wind turbines that probably spent the day trying to understand what a “MOPR” is. reader comments 86 with 58 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Thursday, the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a long-awaited decision that had been log-jammed until Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur stepped down, breaking a ..
