U.S auto safety regulators said Wednesday they have opened a formal safety investigation into 580,000 Tesla vehicles sold since 2017 over the automaker's decision to allow games to be played on the front center touchscreen.

TikTok really was everywhere this year. The app, known for its silly dancing videos, was the world’s most visited site on the internet in 2021, surpassing last year’s leader, Alphabet Inc . ’s Google, according to Cloudflare Inc., a cloud-infrastructure company that tracks internet traffic.

In 2021, there were already 18 extreme climate-related disasters with losses exceeding $1 billion each, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Between 2000 and 2016, the number of people exposed to heat waves jumped by 125 million, claiming more than 166,000 lives between 1998 and 2017.

Amazon's web services business AWS has experienced problems due to a power outage. The outage affected services like Slack, Imgur, and the Epic Games store for some users.

DoNotPay is a new service that lets users get their social media accounts back. The service is part of the company's $36-a-month subscription service. It sends a letter to the relevant company's legal department on the user's behalf. The company's service is designed to help people who are wrongfully suspended from their accounts.

CES 2022 is less than a couple weeks away. It's already starting to feel more like CES 2021 than CES 2020. The highly contagious omicron variant of COVID-19 is giving several companies second thoughts.

South Korea's SK Hynix Inc said on Wednesday it has received merger clearances from the Chinese antitrust authority for its acquisition of Intel Corp's NAND memory chip business, clearing the way for the world's second-largest memory chip maker to completion of securing regulatory approvals from all eight countries.

The field of natural language processing (NLP) has been upended and turbocharged in the past few years. A revolution in language AI, and thus in business, is around the corner, says Andrew Keen. The ability to accurately automate language opens up virtually unbounded opportunities for value creation, Keen says.

Every day, auto manufacturers, sellers and insurance providers process millions of payments through bank transactions, web and mobile services and cash operations. These payment channels share the same imperfections: excessive paperwork, constantly increasing transaction fees, lack of transparency and cybersecurity risks. The blockchain might be the cure for these ills.

The world's first SMS has been sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) at auction in Paris. The message was sent by British programmer Neil Papworth from his computer on December 3 1992 to Richard Jarvis. Jarvis received the message on his Orbitel 901 cellphone.

TCL has resumed sales of its 6-Series and 5-Series Google TVs. The company had briefly halted sales of the sets due to buggy software. The 6-series Google TV has full HDMI 2.1 support for 4K gaming at 120Hz.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Pinterest Inc (PINS.N) separately said on Tuesday they will not send teams to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next month as concerns grow about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.