Bloomberg Democratic lawmakers in Illinois are considering implementing their own inter- net safeguards at the state level after Republicans in Washington voted to roll back Obama-era internet privacy protections that were to take effect later this year. An Illinois House committee endorsed two online privacy measures, including one that would allow people to find out what information companies such ...

  Bloomberg In the sixth grade, Austin Russell turned a Nintendo gaming handset into a cell phone. At 15, he built a holographic keyboard. By 17, he’d filed for a patent. Now at 22, he’s running a startup at the heart of Silicon Valley’s latest technology mania. As founder and chief executive officer of Luminar Technologies Inc., Russell and his ...

  Bloomberg As Europe’s industrial companies attempt to modernize production with sensors and software, Microsoft Corp. is trying to grab a piece of the spending. The US software giant is launching a new lab in Munich — following openings in Redmond, Washington and Shenzhen, China — for customers investing in the so-called Internet of Things, the idea that everything from ...