Daimler Truck Workers in North Carolina Are Poised to Strike

Workers who make trucks and buses for Daimler Truck in North Carolina appeared poised to strike on Friday as contract talks remained deadlocked. A contract covering 7,000 Daimler employees represented…

Xi Is Meeting Blinken With Tough Issues on the Agenda

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is to meet with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing on Friday, in an attempt to hold together a fractious relationship despite disputes over…

Biden, Seeking to Build on Fruitful Week, Announces Billions in Chip Grants

President Biden, building on a week of favorable political developments, celebrated a $6.1 billion grant to Micron Technology on Thursday, saying it would help the United States become less reliant…

New Energizer Battery Warns Parents if Their Child Has Swallowed It

Almost two years after a report warned that children were swallowing batteries at an alarming rate, Energizer is releasing a new battery designed to alert parents if their child has…

Deepfake of Baltimore Principal Leads to Arrest of School Employee

A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested on Thursday after he used artificial intelligence software, the police said, to manufacture a racist and antisemitic audio clip…

The Onion Sold by G/O Media

G/O Media announced on Thursday that it had sold The Onion, a satirical news site, to a group of digital media veterans. The Onion, which started in 1988 in Wisconsin…

Net Neutrality Returns to a Very Different Internet

The Federal Communications Commission has voted—once again—to assert its power to oversee and regulate the activities of the broadband industry in the United States. In a 3-2 vote, the agency…

A Chinese Firm Is America’s Favorite Drone Maker. Except in Washington.

The drones circled over the caves and crevices scattered around the mountain trails in northern Utah, feeding real-time video back to a search team on the ground looking for a…

Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Crypto’s Role in Child Sexual Abuse

US senators Elizabeth Warren and Bill Cassidy have called for the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to redouble efforts to stop the use of cryptocurrency to pay…

Starbucks and Union Restart Contract Talks After Bitter Standoff

Starbucks and the union that represents over 10,000 of its workers returned to the bargaining table on Wednesday for the first time in nearly a year, a pivotal moment in…