What actually happens when you swipe your credit card? a16z general partner Alex Rampell helps solve the mystery, taking us from the beginning of the credit card revolution (including its hometown of Fresno, California) and on the journey of how both information and money travel, through the five parties involved in every credit card transaction.

credits: historical footage courtesy of the Prelinger Archives and the Internet Archive; music by William Ryan Fitch; all trademarks are the property of their respective owners

As the car-hailing company searches for cohesion, the former CEO has told some he is "Steve Jobs-ing it."

Late last week, Apple released early firmware for its HomePod smart speaker, which won't be launching to the public until December. HomePod will...

HBO chairman: 'Disruptive, unsettling, and disturbing for all of us'

Google will reportedly debut a built-in ad blocking feature for its Chrome browser next year, and now we have the first concrete look at this addition to the web navigation software in action. In…

Linden Lab has opened the creator beta version of its Sansar social virtual reality platform to the public. It’s all part of a larger vision to bring us the Metaverse, the immersive virtual world that sci-fi fans have dreamed about for decades. After four years of development, the San Francisco company that brought us the […]

Now in Gboard, you’ll be able to draw and share your keyboard artwork and have access to both Maps and YouTube, making it easier than ever to share location and video content with a single tap.

Following a report that some Blu phones use an app that collects your data, Amazon has made them unavailable on its site.

Snap is still trying to get into the drone business. After reportedly buying LA-based drone company Ctrl Me Robotics earlier this year, Snap is now looking at another drone maker: China-based Zero...

Firefox is due for a comeback. A lot of the work the team spent on refactoring core parts of the browser is starting to pay off, and, while its market share continues to decline (especially on the…

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The verdict is in: Verizon and AT&T have screwed the pooch on their rollouts of unlimited data plans. Verizon was the biggest loser according to a new study, with a 2 Mbps drop in its average download speed. T-Mobile ate everyone else’s lunch and its clown of a CEO is being just as annoying as you’d expect.

Chasing breakneck growth, the ride-hailing giant bought Honda SUVs in Singapore subject to a recall. Then one caught fire, sparking a panic at the company. The episode, which wasn’t previously public knowledge, adds to the list of crises that unfolded at Uber on the watch of former Chief Executive Travis Kalanick.

Google floated an offer of at least $30 billion to buy Snap in early 2016, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

Google co-founder Larry Page’s flying-car startup enlisted star Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to work on the project, according to people familiar with the matter, months before Mr. Levandowski left the tech giant last year, allegedly with trade secrets, for rival Uber Technologies Inc.

Facebook announced today that it has started using neural network systems to carry out more than 4.5 billion translations that occur each day on the backend of the social network. Translations carried out with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were able to scale with the use of Caffe2, a deep learning framework open-sourced by Facebook in April.

The cryptocurrency exchange is storing the newly established currency for the time being, but it hasn't decided whether or not to support trading.