Michael Reynolds | Pool | Getty Images Brett Kavanaugh speaks at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. Hundreds of Facebook employees have voiced …

Tesla CEO Elon Musk mocked the SEC in a tweet Thursday, calling the agency the “Shortseller Enrichment Commission,” days after settling fraud charges brought against him. The tweet, which is missing a word and appears to take a sarcastic tone, says “the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work” and …

Yuri Gripas | Reuters President Donald Trump delivers remarks before signing an executive order on strengthening retirement security in America at Harris Conference Center in Charlotte, NC,  August 31, 2018. New York state Attorney General Barbara Underwood in a new court filing Thursday said that President Donald Trump caused his …

Lukas Schulze | Getty Images News | Getty Images A silicon sex doll for sexual encounters lies on a bed at the ‘Bordoll’ brothel in Dortmund, Germany.  The city council of Houston, Texas unanimously passed an updated ordinance Wednesday that effectively blocks a proposed “sex robot brothel” from opening. A …

Alex Wong | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, participates in an event hosted by the Air Force Association September 19, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland.  As Amazon revs up its private label business with new household goods …

Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Google Vice President of Product Management Mario Queiroz shows the new Google Home during Google I/O 2016 at Shoreline Amphitheatre Google is rolling out a new feature to the Google Assistant that lets you ask it to book you a ride, like an Uber or …

Jason Janik | Bloomberg | Getty Images Robert Neely prepares to load a silicon wafer machine in a clean room at the Texas Instruments semiconductor fabrication plant in Dallas, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Texas Instruments Inc., the second-largest U.S. semiconductor maker, reported sales and profit that beat …

Chris Stowers | Bloomberg | Getty Images Visitors walking past stands, including the Super Micro booth, during the Computex Taipei 2014 expo in Taiwan, June 3, 2014.  Shares of Super Micro, the small server component manufacturer cited by Bloomberg as central to a spying scandal involving China, shed more than …

Leah Millis | Reuters Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell meets with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 10, 2018. ORLANDO, Fla. – Suddenly, the fierce battle over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court presents President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans with a …

Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images A paramilitary police officer stands guard in front of red flags at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. J.P. Morgan is getting less optimistic about the trade conflict between the U.S. and China. The firm lowered its rating for Chinese equities to neutral from …