CNN By Brian Fung, CNN Dozens of Democratic lawmakers urged Google on Tuesday to limit the amount of location data it collects and keeps on its users amid fears the information could be used against abortion seekers. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai led by Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, more than 40
Continue Reading CNN, HLN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Millions of students who participated in virtual learning during the Covid-19 pandemic had their personal data and online behaviors tracked by educational apps and websites without their consent and in many cases shared with third-party advertising technology companies, a new report has found. Human Rights Watch, an
Continue Reading CNN By Brian Fung, CNN Key parts of a Florida law restricting social media platforms’ ability to moderate content likely violate the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, in a victory for the tech industry amid a wider battle over digital speech. The opinion by a three-judge panel in the Eleventh Circuit Court
Continue Reading CNN By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Since launching in five US cities in 2007, Google’s Street View cars have been circling the globe, using roof-mounted cameras to map more than 10 million miles of imagery — pictures that have been stitched together to build a visual map of much of the world. Yet while these
Continue Reading CNN, KIRO, WCVB By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Cher Scarlett, a software engineer, has a history of being misidentified by face-scanning technology, including one instance that may have surfaced a distant ancestor in a photo. So when she was introduced to an online facial-recognition tool she hadn’t heard of, she wanted to see whether it
Continue Reading CNN By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Cher Scarlett, a software engineer, has a history of being misidentified by face-scanning technology, including one instance that may have surfaced a distant ancestor in a photo. So when she was introduced to an online facial-recognition tool she hadn’t heard of, she wanted to see whether it would mistake
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Samsung on Tuesday outlined a plan to pour more than $350 billion into its businesses and create tens of thousands of new jobs over the next five years. Despite an uncertain economic environment exacerbated by long-running supply chain issues and the war in Ukraine, the South Korean conglomerate
Continue Reading CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft made a safe return home from its five-day stay at the International Space Station on Wednesday, concluding a long-awaited test mission that could pave the way for the Starliner to launch astronauts for the first time later this year. After detaching from its port at the
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Elon Musk has faced questions from the US Securities and Exchange Commission about how and when he disclosed his large stake in Twitter last month, prior to agreeing to buy the social media company. On April 4, the same day that Musk initially revealed he had bought up
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company, a primary US defense contractor, and a titan of a global aviation duopoly. A few years ago, the idea that it would dominate commercial space was a given, and companies like SpaceX, a relatively young business relying on a strategy
Continue Reading CNN By Clare Duffy and Sara O’Brien, CNN Business The mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, has put a spotlight on 4chan, a largely unmoderated site that has been the breeding ground for several tragedies and controversies over the years and appears to have played a role in inspiring Saturday’s attack. Despite the role it
Continue Reading CNN, ABC By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Apple notified corporate employees that it is delaying a requirement for most staffers to be in the office at least three days a week amid an increase in Covid-19 cases in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the company is based. In a message to staffers obtained
Continue Reading CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Business The Securities and Exchange Commission has continued to examine Elon Musk’s investment in and $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. A letter sent by the SEC to Musk on June 2 includes questions about the billionaire’s use of Twitter to discuss the deal, including his tweets about the deal
Continue Reading CNN, HBO, VICE NEWS, NEWSMAX, KCPQ, FOX NEWS, KVIA, WKBW, TVNZ, KDKA, KTSM, WPXI, WTAE By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Twitch, the livestreaming giant popular among video gamers, has been thrust into the national spotlight after the suspect in the Buffalo grocery store mass shooting tried to broadcast the attack on the platform. Twitch removed
Continue Reading CNN By Clare Duffy and Donie O’Sullivan, CNN Business In the wake of Saturday’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, Big Tech platforms scrambled to stop the spread of a video of the attack filmed by the suspect and a document allegedly also produced by him where he outlines his beliefs. Major social media platforms
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business After Jason Moore, from Portland, Oregon, saw headlines from national news sources on Google News about the Buffalo shooting at a local supermarket on Saturday afternoon, he did a quick search for the incident on Wikipedia. When no results appeared, he drafted a single sentence: “On
Continue Reading CNN By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business TikTok posts about actor Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against his ex-wife, actress Amber Heard, have turned a stay-at-home mom based in Scotland into an accidental influencer. Or, perhaps more aptly, a DeppTok influencer. Sophie Doggett, whose TikTok was previously populated by videos on everyday things such as herself
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Jennifer Korn A board seat accepted and then rejected. A stunning $44 billion takeover offer with uncertain financing. And a surprise early morning tweet putting the deal on hold, temporarily. Even by the standards of Twitter, a company that has known plenty of chaos and dysfunction in its history, the weeks-long effort
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By David Goldman, Chris Isidore and Clare Duffy, CNN Elon Musk said he is putting his bid to acquire Twitter on hold, weeks after agreeing to take the company private in a $44 billion deal. “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5%
Continue Reading CNN By Brian Fung, CNN A federal appeals court will allow Texas’s new social media law to take effect after striking down a preliminary injunction by a lower court, according to a judicial order in the case. The Texas law, known as HB 20, allows private parties to sue tech platforms over allegations of censorship.
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Rachel Metz, CNN Business If you’re a newcomer to virtual reality, you’ll notice something odd about your appearance: Depending on the app, you may look down to see you’re represented by an avatar that’s just a floating torso or nothing but a pair of hands. While wireless headsets and handheld controllers
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Rishi Iyengar and Rachel Metz, CNN Business Google on Wednesday unveiled an expanded lineup of hardware products in the latest sign it remains committed to moving beyond its core advertising business and competing with the likes of Apple. At its first in-person developer conference in three years, Google announced three new
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpinLaunch, an ambitious startup that hopes to spin, rather than launch, satellites into orbit, released dizzying footage of a test flight that the company conducted out of New Mexico. The test flight last month, which marked the company’s eighth since October 2021, was the first to include
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Reuters Boeing Co. is feuding with Aerojet Rocketdyne, a key supplier for its Starliner spacecraft, as the U.S. aerospace giant races to test launch the uncrewed astronaut capsule and mend its reputation in the space sector, people familiar with the matter said. The CST-100 Starliner is scheduled for a May 19
Continue Reading CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Airbnb on Wednesday announced new ways to search for and book homes on the platform in response to the rise of remote work and the number of customers choosing longer stays. The new features include the ability to more easily divide trips between two homes when options for
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Clare Duffy, CNN Business In the days following the January 6 Capitol riot, Twitter became the first major social media platform to permanently suspend then-President Donald Trump for violating its rules against inciting violence. It was a huge step and one that instantly put pressure on other big platforms to take
Continue Reading CNN By Brian Fung, CNN The dating-app company behind Tinder, OkCupid and Match.com sued Google on Monday, alleging that the technology giant runs an illegal monopoly in the Google Play Store and that its in-app payment policies, including its 30% cut of some in-app purchases, are anticompetitive. The suit by Match Group is the latest
Continue Reading CNN, WJAR By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business DoorDash, which went public amid a pandemic-fueled delivery craze in late 2020, said its business continues to boom even as people increasingly return to their lives outside the home. The on-demand delivery company said its order volume grew 23% to 404 million in the first three months
Continue Reading CNN By Brian Fung, CNN The president of the Amazon Labor Union warned Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday that he risks ignoring the concerns of workers at his own political peril. At the opening of a Senate Banking Committee hearing focused on Amazon (AMZN), in which Graham used his initial remarks to blast the “demonization
Continue Reading CNN, CNN BUSINESS By Brian Fung and Clare Duffy, CNN Elon Musk said Tuesday that he would restore former President Donald Trump’s banned account on Twitter if his deal to acquire the company is completed. Musk’s remarks at an automotive conference mark his first public acknowledgment of what had been widely expected since the billionaire
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