Photo: J. Scott Applewhite (AP) Today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing was a clownshow—accurately predicted by Minority Leader Nadler as focusing mainly on the outgoing Republican majority’s apoplectic rage towards imaginary conservative bias on Alphabet’s platforms, and largely a rehash of the browbeating doled out to Twitter and Facebook earlier in the year. Given that Google…

Three shapes of quark-gluon plasma droplets. The universe began with a bang—and things immediately got weird. Stars and galaxies didn’t form right away. Scientists think that matter was initially a near-perfect fluid of quarks, the smallest known component of atoms. They have found evidence of these fluids in high-energy particle collider experiments. Now, evidence continues…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty) On March 13, 2018, an Uber manager reportedly sent an email to company executives, alerting them to the safety concerns of the self-driving car software, the high rate of self-driving car accidents, and the “dangerous behavior” of the backup drivers, according to a new report from the Information. Five days later,…

Screenshot: nycedc Newly released proposal documents reveal the extent to which New York was willing to bend over backwards to win the bid for an Amazon branch office, as well as the sites the retail giant passed on in lieu of a hefty chunk of Long Island City. The documents, which embarrassingly refer to New…

Recently sworn in, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon of Pennsylvania is among the list of Democrats who’ve stated they will not support an effort to overturn the FCC’s decision in Congress.Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite Net neutrality proponents now have less than two weeks to convince 38 House lawmakers to support an effort to overturn the Federal…

Photo: Getty Martin Tripp, a former technician at Tesla’s Gigafactory turned whistleblower, is embroiled in a nasty lawsuit with the EV manufacturer and recently released court documents show that Tesla is not taking Tripp’s alleged “sabotage” lightly. The company wants Tripp to pay $167 million in damages for public statements he’s made that Tesla claims…