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Twitter is changing its named to X, Elon Musk announced Saturday. Here are five more companies that rebranded, some controversially and others with success. Including the original X.com, which became PayPal after Musk was ousted as CEO. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in …

Amazon in 2020 spent roughly $18 million on lobbying, and Facebook spent nearly $20 million, marking the most that either company has ever devoted to pushing its political agenda in Washington, according to an analysis of federal lobbying disclosures that became available Friday. The companies filed their final updates for …

[theme music] – When you walk in the room do you have Sway? kara swisher I love disaster movies, and I love action movies. I especially love movies where someone knows before anyone else that something bad is about to strike humanity. clip from “tomb raider” 1 It could kill …

Actual pigeons flying through fog in Kathmandu, Nepal, in January 2019.Photo: Niranjan Shrestha (AP) It turns out that Facebook’s onetime plan to build huge drones that would relay wireless networks to parts of the world without widespread access to high-speed internet, Project Aquila, isn’t the only odd method the company …

Facebook resurrects plan to beam high-speed internet from the sky in new deal with Airbus to test solar-powered drones in Australia Facebook reportedly tested Airbus’ Zephyr S drone in November and December Neither Facebook nor Airbus has confirmed the details of the tests in Australia Facebook grounded its high-speed drone …

Facebook may have ended its secretive internet-drone project — but that doesn’t mean its attempts to build experimental communications hardware are over. Filings seen by Business Insider show that the California social network has been granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission to build a secretive, previously unreported “hardware prototype …