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GlobalFoundries CEO: New York chip factory likely delayed if U.S. subsidy bill fails
By Stephen Nellis and Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) - A planned semiconductor factory in upstate New York will likely be delayed if a bill to bolster the U.S. computer chip industry fails to pass in the c...
Jul 19, 2022
U.S. senator seeks passage of Big Tech antitrust bill as time runs short
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional leader on antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar, on Tuesday called for Congress to pass a bill to rein in Big Tech, as prospects of it becoming law seemed to be ...
Jul 19, 2022
Bitcoin rises 5.11% to $23,564.93
(Reuters) - Bitcoin rose 5.11% to $23,564.93 at 22:05 GMT on Tuesday, adding $1,145.77 to its previous close. Bitcoin, the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, is up 33.9% from the year's lo...
Jul 19, 2022
Amazon-owned self driving firm Zoox seeks to test robotaxi in California
By Jane Lanhee Lee FREMONT, Calif (Reuters) - Zoox, a self-driving technology firm owned by Amazon.com Inc, said on Tuesday it was gearing up to launch its robotaxi business, self-certifying that its ...
Jul 19, 2022
Romanian man extradited to U.S. on hacking charges over virus that hit NASA
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Romanian man accused of helping distribute a computer virus that infected more than 1 million computers and caused big financial losses worldwide has been extradited to the Unit...
Jul 19, 2022
Google Cloud data center in London faces outage on UK’s hottest day
(Reuters) - A Google Cloud data center in London faced an outage on Tuesday, according to an update on the Alphabet Inc unit's status page, as temperature in the UK soared to a record high. Google Clo...
Jul 19, 2022
Exclusive-Centerbridge weighs $3 billion sale of cloud IT firm Ahead -sources
By Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Private equity firm Centerbridge Partners is preparing a sale of Ahead Inc in a deal that could value the enterprise cloud solutions provider at more than $3 billion includin...
Jul 19, 2022
Texas bitcoin miners back online after power surge caused curtailments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Large-scale bitcoin mining operations in Texas are back online after sweltering temperatures that caused electricity use to spike led to power curtailments earlier in the month, a...
Jul 19, 2022
Netflix to acquire Australian animation studio Animal Logic
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Netflix Inc plans to acquire Sydney-based Animal Logic, an animation studio that has worked on hits from "Happy Feet" to "The Lego Movies," the companies said ...
Jul 19, 2022
Netflix predicts return to customer growth, shares jump
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Netflix Inc said on Tuesday it lost 970,000 subscribers from April through June, averting the worst-case scenario projected by the company, and predicted it wo...
Jul 19, 2022
