Companies are competing to create better tech for systems that can save lives during seismic events. This type of investment used to be funded only by governments, but that’s changing.
National security and censorship often come up in the contenders’ tech-centered rhetoric, and a lot of it revolves around China, says Dave Weigel, politics reporter for the news website Semafor.
The atmosphere at Apple’s iPhone 15 gala last week was subdued, Wired’s Lauren Goode reports. The smartphone market is “generally saturated,” she says. “I think people are thinking more critically about whether they actually need to upgrade.”
Reza Ghazinouri and Shaghayegh Norouzi of the United for Iran activist group explain the role of apps in the continuing protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody.
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Apple, Microsoft and ByteDance will have until next March to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act, which aims at leveling the playing field for other competitors.
Rebecca Allensworth, an antitrust law professor at Vanderbilt University, says the 2001 case against Microsoft will be the blueprint for how the Justice Department goes about building a case against Google and its dominance.
