Smartmatic and OAN Settle Defamation Suit
[ad_1] The voting technology company Smartmatic reached a settlement on Tuesday in its defamation lawsuit against One America News Network, a far-right broadcaster, over the amplification of election falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election. The terms of the settlement were confidential and could not immediately be learned. Smartmatic filed More...
Microsoft Makes High-Stakes Play in Tech Cold War With Emirati A.I. Deal
[ad_1] Microsoft on Tuesday plans to announce a $1.5 billion investment in G42, an artificial intelligence giant in the United Arab Emirates, in a deal largely orchestrated by the Biden administration to box More...
Tesla Will Lay Off More Than 10% of Global Workforce
[ad_1] Signs of turmoil at Tesla multiplied on Monday after the electric car company told employees it would lay off more than 10 percent of the work force to cut costs and two senior executives resigned. The More...
On Himalayan Hillsides Grows Japan’s Cold, Hard Cash
[ad_1] The views are spectacular in this corner of eastern Nepal, between the world’s highest mountains and the tea estates of India’s Darjeeling district, where rare orchids grow and red pandas play on More...
Netflix’s New Film Strategy: More About the Audience, Less About Auteurs
[ad_1] Back in, say, 2019, if a filmmaker signed a deal with Netflix, it meant that he or she would be well paid and receive complete creative freedom. Theatrical release? Not so much. Still, the paycheck and More...
Ohtani’s Dizzying 3 Weeks End in Exoneration by Authorities
[ad_1] In the clubhouse after the Los Angeles Dodgers won their season opener in Seoul last month, Shohei Ohtani’s longtime interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, made a stunning admission to the team: He was a gambling More...
Don Wright, Editorial Cartoonist With a Skewer for a Pen, Dies at 90
[ad_1] Don Wright, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose pointed work punctured duplicity and pomposity and resonated with common-sense readers, died on March 24 at his home in Palm Beach, More...
Richard Leibner, Saavy Agent for Top Broadcast Journalists, Dies at 85
[ad_1] A trained accountant, Mr. Leibner was described in a 1989 profile by Ben Yagoda in The New York Times Magazine as an idiosyncratic character with a “remarkable emotional range.” “He can be plaintive, More...
That Giant College ‘Sticker’ Price Isn’t What Most Students Pay
[ad_1] For more than a decade, the report found, the typical net price at private colleges has increased just for higher-income students. But that still doesn’t mean college is affordable for low- or moderate-income More...
Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.
[ad_1] Arthur Mensch, tall and lean with a flop of unkempt hair, arrived for a speech last month at a sprawling tech hub in Paris wearing jeans and carrying a bicycle helmet. He had an unassuming look for a More...