By Brian Fung, CNN Two US senators are pushing to curb the potentially harmful impacts of social media on young people with a new bill targeting tech platforms’ handling of content surrounding issues such as eating disorders, substance abuse and suicide. The new bipartisan legislation, known as the Kids Online Safety Act, was introduced Wednesday
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The Hayden Homes Amphitheater announced two more summer concerts Tuesday — My Morning Jacket and Bonnie Raitt. See the whole list – 16 so far — and ticket info at https://bendconcerts.com/
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Virgin Galactic is reopening sales of its $450,000 tickets that get customers a 90-minute joyride aboard an air-launched rocket that brushes the edge of space. The company already has about 600 reservations from its first round of ticket sales, which priced a trip to suborbital space at about $200,000 to
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After a two-year hiatus, Bend’s beloved July 4th of July Pet Parade is set to return this summer, just in time for its 90th birthday, the Bend Park and Recreation District announced Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Facebook-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old class action lawsuit over a practice that allowed the social network to track users’ activity across the internet, even if they had logged out of the platform. The settlement, announced on Tuesday, is one of the largest in
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business The looming shutdown of 3G networks won’t just impact older phones. With AT&T’s 3G network shutting down next week, and other carriers following suit later this year, a range of products require updates to continue working, including some home alarm systems, medical devices such as fall detectors, and in-car
Continue ReadingBy Rachel Metz, CNN Business Mark Zuckerberg stares at a cartoon version of himself in a virtual world and tries to pick an outfit for his avatar to wear. Zuckerberg flicks his hand to change the avatar’s apparel, switching from a black shirt, slacks and white sneakers to a skeleton costume to an astronaut suit.
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Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Foo Fighters will be giving the people even more of what they want. The band has added no less than 10 more evenings of life-affirming rock communion across the U.S. and Canada throughout 2022. The tour will make a Bend stop at Hayden Homes Amphitheater on Friday, Oct. 7 — and at this point, it appears the show will wrap their North American tour.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Texas is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta (FB), over allegations the social media giant illegally harvested the facial recognition data of tens of millions of state residents for a decade. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Texas’s Harrison County District Court, argues that a now-shuttered Facebook photo-tagging feature failed to get Texans’
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung, CNN Business A nationwide group of state attorneys general announced an investigation into TikTok’s impact on young Americans Tuesday, adding to the steady drumbeat of political pressure being applied to social media platforms. The probe zeroes in on TikTok’s user engagement techniques and alleged risks that the platform may pose to
Continue ReadingKEYT, SPACEX, CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jared Isaacman — the billionaire CEO of payments processing company Shift 4 — is buying three more flights with SpaceX, the first of which is scheduled for this year and could put Isaacman and SpaceX on track to travel deeper into space than any human has traveled
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Jared Isaacman — the billionaire CEO of payments processing company Shift 4 — is buying three more flights with SpaceX, the first of which is scheduled for this year and could put Isaacman and SpaceX on track to travel deeper into space than any human has traveled in a half
Continue ReadingReuters Network gear maker Cisco Systems has made a takeover offer worth more than $20 billion for software maker Splunk, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The offer was made recently, and the companies are not in active talks, the newspaper said, citing some of the sources. Cisco
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This isn’t your garden variety Radish!
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Using the arts as a means to address community need is the focus of 55 projects awarded a total of $221,535 through the Oregon Arts Commission’s FY2022 Arts Build Communities grant program. The Arts Build Communities program targets broad geographic impact and arts access for underserved audiences in Oregon.Â
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My Own Two Hands, the annual celebration of the arts and a major fundraiser for the Sisters Folk Festival, will officially kick off on Friday, April 22 during the Fourth Friday Art Stroll in Sisters.
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Harry is a pretty mellow stray who arrived at Redmond’s BrightSide Animal Center with two other dogs – Ron and Hermione, of course.
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Amazon will no longer require its fully vaccinated warehouse employees to wear face masks at work in states that have eased up on mask mandates, the company said in an internal memo Thursday. The announcement comes as a string of states, including California, Delaware and Oregon, have said they plan
Continue ReadingBy Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Late Monday night, some Peloton staffers noticed they were unable to access work productivity apps like Slack and Okta, which they used regularly on the job. Peloton’s employees had been told about a scheduled maintenance window that might cause service outages, according to one employee, but that didn’t stop
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Late Monday night, some Peloton staffers noticed they were unable to access work productivity apps like Slack and Okta, which they used regularly on the job. Peloton’s employees had been told about a scheduled maintenance window that might cause service outages, according to one employee, but
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