When baseball fans watch a batter strike out with runners in scoring position, the reaction is often immediate: Shorten the swing. Put the ball in play. Stop swinging for the fences, they lament. But ...

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The odds of California voters passing a proposed one-time Billionaire Tax have cratered on Polymarket — marking a stunning swing for the soak-the-rich measure as it fights to become a reality. Traders ...

For more than a decade, American businesses have been calling on Congress to pick a lane on data privacy: a clear, national framework. Congress failed to pass a workable approach, so states stepped in ...

Georgia is favored to elect a Democrat to the governor’s mansion and to the Senate for the first time in decades, CNN’s data guru has revealed. Harry Enten says Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff is not only ...

Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass privacy protections that grant the state’s residents new rights over accessing and deleting their data held by big tech giants. The bill also bans companies ...

It could become the first ban of its kind in a state. It could become the first ban of its kind in a state. is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and ...

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Scrub the data center ban! Desperate tech and business groups begged Gov. Kathy Hochul to pull the plug on a measure that will block new artificial intelligence data centers from coming online in New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott proposed stricter regulations on data centers in the state. Abbott wants data centers to pay their own way, ...

The New York Legislature is poised to pass a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers, according to Politico. The move could make New York the first state in the nation to enact a statewide ban ...

Texas is shifting from courting data centers toward regulating them. Gov. Greg Abbott has proposed new rules for data centers as concerns about their energy and water consumption and their impact on ...