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Serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk is selling a new use case for NFT: “Smart event” tokens that have real value rather than digital art. Vaynerchuk’s VeeFriends NFT collection will give buyers three-year access to his VeeCon business and marketing convention. Customers can buy the tokens with etherium cryptocurrency. But he sees a broader future for NFTs

SpaceX just launched another test flight of an early Mars rocket prototype at its South Texas facility, sending the towering silver vehicle soaring up to about six miles above Earth, then putting it through a series of aerial acrobatics before re-lighting two of its engines and landing it upright back on a landing pad. The

Google is expanding its options for when, where and how often employees return to the office. The company’s workers around the world can continue working remotely until September, after which they can choose between coming back to their pre-pandemic office, working out of a Google office in a different city or permanently working from anywhere

Dell imagines a future in which businesses are faster, smarter and better. The tech company is building a “world where we see wide-scale connectivity, data-driven insights, automation and embedded intelligence in everything that we do,” Dell Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke told CNN Business in an exclusive interview. Now, all eyes are on Dell after

The latest plea for a break-up of Tribune Publishing’s newspapers is coming from inside the pages of a Tribune publication. In Wednesday’s edition of the New York Daily News, reporter Larry McShane practically begs someone local to “step up and save New York’s Hometown Paper.” McShane and many of his colleagues fear that Tribune’s current

Prominent Republicans and right-wing media organizations on Wednesday cited a decision to affirm Facebook’s suspension of former President Donald Trump in their long-running campaign to portray large technology companies as biased against conservatives. The decision was made by the Oversight Board, a court-like panel funded by Facebook that is charged with providing an independent review

The New York Times has a new statistic about its reach: The site has more than 100 million registered users. The number of users implies that at least that many people are considering but do not yet pay for The Times. Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien shared the number Wednesday as part of the company’s

Some of Europe’s biggest supermarkets and food companies have threatened to stop buying agricultural products from Brazil if a bill they say would encourage deforestation in the Amazon becomes law. In an open letter published on Wednesday, 40 grocers, food suppliers and investment firms urged Brazilian lawmakers to reconsider a legislative proposal that would legalize

Facebook can keep blocking former President Donald Trump from using its platform but must revisit the decision within six months, the social network’s court-like Oversight Board said Wednesday. The landmark decision affirmed the company’s decision to issue the suspension after the January 6 US Capitol riots. The board said it concluded that Trump’s posts on

General Motors posted strong first-quarter earnings and said it’s on track to hit the high end of its full-year profit target despite the computer chip shortage dogging the industry. The largest US automaker posted net income of $3 billion, about 10 times what it posted in the same quarter a year ago, when it was

Bill and Melinda Gates announced the end of their 27-year relationship Monday, shocking the business and philanthropic worlds. “After a great deal of thought and a lot of work on our relationship, we have made the decision to end our marriage,” the couple, well-known for their wealth and commitment to philanthropy, said in a statement.

Vitalik Buterin, a 27-year-old Russian-Canadian programmer, created ethereum in 2013 when he was 19. The cryptocurrency launched in 2015, and now Buterin holds about 333,500 ether in his public wallet. Multiply that by the $3,500 record high ether stood at on Tuesday, and you get more than $1.1 billion. Not bad. Buterin co-founded Bitcoin Magazine,