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Your electric bills may have shot up in recent months, and you might be tempted to blame your roommate, who never turns the lights off, or your old window air conditioner unit.It’s not because of your roommate. It’s not your window unit. It’s actually Big Tech’s fault.Customers of the biggest…
Walmart is trying to transform itself from America’s grocery store into a global tech titan and is reshaping its workforce in the process.The 63-year-old company has been the largest retailer in the world for decades, and has held the top spot on the Fortune 500 list since 2013. But it…
Schneider Electric is a global technology company specializing in energy management for software and services, including data centers and industrial automation. Founded in 1836, the company is headquartered in Paris and operates in more than 100 countries. Some of its customers include Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.Situation analysisThe use of artificial…
Social Security is switching things up to answer your calls faster, while data showing wait times has disappeared from its website.The agency is temporarily reassigning up to 1,000 field office employees to teleservice work, per an internal union document obtained by Business Insider. The document shows the agency is changing…
Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic has been a big success and is set to drive significant growth in the tech giant’s cloud business in coming years, according to new estimates released on Friday.Amazon Web Services stands to generate billions of dollars in extra in revenue from the alliance, Morgan Stanley analysts…
One of the most-purchased items so far during Amazon’s Prime Day isn’t an Alexa-enabled device or the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s a hydration drink mix.Liquid IV packets were the most-bought item by number of units sold during Prime Day’s first day and a half, according to Numerator data that tracked transactions.Some shoppers…
Tariffs are hitting consumers this year, but the effects are not always spelled out in a line-item charge on a receipt.The current average US tariff rate on imports is about six times as high as it was in January, and the US Treasurysaid that it could collect $300 billion in tariff income…
Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. BI’s Jake Epstein spent the night aboard a US Navy destroyer traveling from England to France. He said the space was tight, as he got a taste of what…
Until recently, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and medical-technology companies have focused the bulk of their AI investments on clinical uses. AI has been employed to help diagnose breast cancer, identify potential patients for clinical trials, and accelerate the processes used to determine whether a device or a new drug has the potential…
Researchers say they’ve uncovered one of the largest data leaks in history that involves many popular platforms.The leak includes nearly 16 billion login credentials that could give cybercriminals access to social media and business platforms such as Apple, Gmail, Telegram, Facebook, GitHub, and more, researchers at Cybernews said this week.Bad…
