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More and more Americans are losing thousands of dollars to a scheme that takes fraudsters weeks or months to pull off. “Pig butchering” scams earned the name from the idea that scammers use flattery and fake bonding to “fatten up” their victims. The strategy has amassed billions in stolen funds—particularly in the form of cryptocurrencies.

Nomadsoul1 | Istock | Getty Images The question “What is a thought?” is no longer strictly a philosophical one. Like anything else measurable, our thoughts are subject to increasingly technical answers, with data captured by tracking brainwaves. That breakthrough also means the data is commodifiable, and captured brain data is already being bought and sold

The eponymous sign outside Epic headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin. Source: Yiem via Wikipedia CC Epic Systems, the health-care software giant whose technology is used in thousands of hospitals and clinics across the country, said on Friday that it’s planning on moving all of its customers to a new government-backed medical records exchange by the end

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Amazon delivery drone is on display at Amazon’s BOS27 Robotics Innovation Hub in Westborough, Massachusetts, on Nov. 10, 2022. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty Images On a recent weekday morning, John Case heard a familiar buzzing outside his quiet suburban home in College

Revolut cards are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on March 29, 2024. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images British fintech startup Revolut on Friday said that it was valued at $45 billion in a secondary share sale with existing and new investors. “This valuation reflects the strong financial performance recorded

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, US, on Thursday, July 18, 2024.  Jason Henry | Bloomberg | Getty Images A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter on Thursday expressing concern that

In this article CSCO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins participates in a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2023. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cisco shares jumped about 8% on Thursday and headed for their best day since March 2020,

In this article NVDA GOOGL META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Eric Schmidt, former CEO and Chairman, Google, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California on May 2, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Eric Schmidt, who led Google for a decade, told Stanford students that, while

Airwallex, which was most recently valued at $5.6 billion and is backed by Tencent, has been tipped as one of many prominent fintech IPO candidates. Jose Sarmento | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tencent-backed payments startup Airwallex has reached an annual revenue run rate of $500 million and will look to get ready for an initial

In this article CSCO Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins participates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18, 2023. Hollie Adams | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cisco shares popped in extended trading on Wednesday after the networking company said it’s cutting 7% of its global workforce and

In this article 700-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tencent showed off its tech at the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, July 8, 2023. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Tencent beat second-quarter top and bottom line estimates as growth in its key gaming division accelerated. Here’s how Tencent did in the

Jaque Silva | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The judge overseeing X’s lawsuit against advertisers has recused himself following a news report that showed he owned shares of Tesla. In a recusal notice dated Aug. 13, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas backed out of X’s case against the World Federation of

In the 1980s, Japan was the dominant player in the semiconductor market. But huge shifts in the way the chip supply chain operated eroded that leading-edge. Countries like Taiwan with TSMC, the world’s largest and most advanced semiconductor manufacturer, began to dominate in the production of chips. The U.S. is key in areas like design.

SpaceX’s Starship launches its fourth flight test from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. , in this handout picture obtained on June 6, 2024.  Spacex | Via Reuters Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated environmental regulations by repeatedly releasing pollutants into or near bodies

In this article MSFT MRNA EL AAPL GOOGL AMZN META Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, was founded in 2015 by a number of researchers, academics and entrepreneurs, including Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Elon Musk. Altman and Brockman are still at OpenAI, serving as CEO and president,

CEO Youtube Susan Wojcicki speaks during the ‘What Matters Next’ session during the Cannes Lions Festival 2018 on June 19, 2018 in Cannes, France. Francois G. Durand | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who was also one of the most influential early Google employees, has died at the age