Technology

Data centers are in Ashburn in Loudon County, Virginia, on Sunday, July 16, 2023. The centers house the computer servers and hardware required to support modern internet use, including artificial intelligence. The county is home to the world's largest concentration of data centers. Tech companies like to place the centers here, partly because the region's proximity to the nation's traditional internet backbone allows the servers in those data centers to save nanoseconds crucial to support financial transactions, gaming technology and other time-sensitive applications.

Massive Virginia data center development drives debate about price of technological advancement

By Emily Hallas July 26, 2025 7:00 am

Trump’s AI art affinity

Dain Fitzgerald and Jason Agnew Jul 25, 2025

UK moving on new penalties for Apple and Google amid trade discussions with Trump

Christian Datoc and Naomi Lim Jul 18, 2025

Businessman Pressing Button Touches Virtual Screen with Artificial intelligence AI, Justice Scales, and Judge's Gavel.

State-level AI regulation ban left out of Trump agenda law

Jessica Melugin Jul 18, 2025

Zuckerberg and Meta reach settlement seeking $8 billion over violations of Facebook users’ privacy

Annabella Rosciglione Jul 17, 2025

US struggles to keep pace in delivering broadband service

By Washington Examiner December 30, 2013 5:00 am

binary code and computer monitors

Multiple levies on digital goods targeted by House bill

By Washington Examiner December 30, 2013 5:00 am

Technology for Tyrants

By Claudia Rosett December 30, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, file photo, Caroline Ramirez, left, and Sam Martinez, right, use computers at a public library to access the Affordable Health Care Act website, in San Antonio. Health care workers and officials in Texas on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013, rushed to sign people up for insurance plans, even after receiving a one-day extension on a deadline for customers buying coverage under the new federal health care law to have their plans kick in Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Obamacare enrollment tops 1 million

By Meghashyam Mali December 29, 2013 5:00 am

CMS claims December enrollment surge, leaves key questions unanswered

By Philip Klein December 29, 2013 5:00 am

The Dogecoin currency was targeted by online bank robbers. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Dogecoin seller hacked, 21 million coins lost in heist

By Ashe Schow December 27, 2013 5:00 am

Obamacare and Amazon are running at about the same level of efficiency, just as President Obama promised, to judge from reports of missed Christmas deliveries.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Obamacare is finally working about as well as Amazon

By Joel Gehrke December 26, 2013 5:00 am

2013 Highlights: Gun control

By Elliot Smilowitz and Meghana Kurup December 24, 2013 5:00 am

This file image shows part of the healthgare.gov website that notes to enroll by Dec. 23 for coverage starting as soon as Jan. 1, 2014. Anticipating heavy traffic on the government's health care website, the Obama administration effectively extended Monday's deadline for signing up for insurance by a day, giving people in 36 states more time to select a plan. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Here comes the real Obamacare test

By Brian Hughes December 24, 2013 5:00 am

Oregon Health Authority Chief Information Officer Carolyn Lawson is shown before appearing at a Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Audits, Information Management and Technology in Salem, Ore., on Nov. 20. Lawson announced last week that she was resigning for personal reasons. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Anatomy of a fiasco: How Cover Oregon went awry

By Washington Examiner December 23, 2013 5:00 am

2013 Highlights: NSA controversies

By Elliot Smilowitz and Meghana Kurup December 23, 2013 5:00 am

In an editorial titled, "The Affordable Care Act's free market economics," the Washington Post has attempted to defend President Obama's health care law from Republican attacks that the law will make it difficult for some Americans to keep their doctors. But in the process of doing so, the editorial board failed to draw an important distinction between economics and free market economics. (AP Photo)

White House extends Obamacare deadline to Dec. 24

By Brian Hughes December 23, 2013 5:00 am