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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Amazon’s profitable cloud business will invest roughly $7.8 billion by the end of 2029 to expand its data center operations in central Ohio, state leaders announced Monday, further advancing the state’s efforts to establish itself as the Midwest’s technology hub. The new investments by Amazon Web Services, or AWS, were announced by

By Hartley Charlton, MacRumors Apple is working on at least a dozen new devices set to launch between late 2023 and early 2024, according to an updated product roadmap shared by Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. In the latest edition of his “Power On” newsletter, Gurman explained that Apple is planning to launch two Apple Watch Series 9 models and a second-generation Apple

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN NEW YORK— Meta is adding new safeguards and monitoring tools for teens across its social platforms: parental controls on Messenger, suggestions for teens to step away from Facebook after 20 minutes, and nudges urging young night-owl Instagrammers to stop scrolling. The features announced Tuesday come as Meta (META) and other social media

AUSTIN, Texas — John Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers, and pacemakers to electric cars, has died at 100, the University of Texas announced Monday. Goodenough died Sunday at an assisted living facility

RALEIGH – The Biden Administrations touted its broadband funding announced Friday (including $1.5 billion for North Carolina) as the reason for the creation of new jobs in the broadband industry, including two projects in N.C. “For example, anticipating this major investment in high-speed internet infrastructure deployment, earlier this year, fiber optic cable manufacturers CommScope and

RALEIGH – North Carolina will receive more than $1.5 billion in federal funding to expand the reach of high-speed internet funding across the state where it is not available, the Biden Administration announced Monday. At a press conference in Washington, the administration outlined how states across the country will be receiving billions of dollars in

Editor’s note: Tom Snyder, executive director of rapidly growing Raleigh-based RIoT and a thought leader in the emerging Internet of Things, is the newest columnist to join WRAL TechWire’s list of top drawer contributors. “Datafication Nation” premiers today. His columns will be part of WRAL TechWire’s Startup Monday package. +++ RALEIGH – The tech industry is constantly evolving, and

President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Monday his administration’s plans to distribute billions of dollars appropriated by Congress to deliver the internet to every household and small business in the United States. That could mean good news for the many North Carolinians who lack access to high-speed internet. New data released earlier this

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – IBM is making a big play in the financial and operation IT management (otherwise known as FinOps), announcing Monday it would acquire Apptio in an all-cash deal worth $4.6 billion. Apptio is owned by Vista Equity Partners. It’s based in Bellevue, Wash. and has some 1,700 employees with annual revenues of

By Hartley Charlton, MacRumors After spending two weeks using the beta versions of watchOS 10, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and tvOS 17, we discuss our experiences and highlight our favorite new features from each of the updates on this week’s episode of The MacRumors Show. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos ‌watchOS 10‌ is a major