Newscan: U.S. Senate bill seeks to require anti-drunk-driving vehicle tech

In July, the industry witnessed one of the largest technology outages in recent history, with estimates of $5.4 billion in damages. When CrowdStrike distributed a Rapid Response Content Channel Update with an exception-handling logic flaw, it opened the door for constructive conversations about automatic updates — when to use them, when not to use them, whether they […]

Apple plans to invest another $1.1 billion into satellite operator Globalstar. But the details and contours of that investment remain unclear. “The Updated Services Agreements provide that Customer [Apple] will make cash prepayments to the Company, including for approved capital expenditures in connection with the Extended MSS Network,” Globalstar disclosed in a new SEC filing. The […]

Xcel Energy plans to invest $45 billion in new generation, transmission and other projects over the next five years, President and CEO Bob Frenzel said Thursday during the company’s third-quarter earnings call. The company has received 8,900 MW of requests from data center companies, but economic growth is driving just 22% of the total five-year spend, […]

A year ago, President Biden issued an executive order ambitiously aimed at “the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” The order attempts to set in motion the government agencies that must grapple with the reality of an AI revolution already in progress. Across a broad set of industries, AI posed poses an open […]