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By Chris Liakos, CNN Business The European Union proposed new rules on Thursday that will make USB-C ports standard on smartphones, tablets, cameras, phones, portable speakers and handheld video game systems. The move is a setback for Apple, which uses its own “Lightning” port on the iPhone. While the new rules are years away from

By Matt Egan, CNN Business From the climate crisis to Covid, Marc Benioff sees a common thread for what ails America today: deception that is allowed to spread like wildfire on Facebook. “This digital revolution really kind of has the world in its grip. And in that grip, you can see the amount of mistrust

By Sara Ashley O’Brien and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business James Mattis, the former US Secretary of Defense and onetime Theranos board member, recounted how he lost confidence in the failed blood-testing startup during his testimony Wednesday in the criminal trial of the company’s founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Mattis, in a San Jose federal

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Apple will not allow Fortnite back on its devices until its legal battle with the video game’s maker, Epic Games, has fully concluded, potentially delaying the game’s return to iPhones by several years. A lawyer for Apple said the company “has exercised its discretion not to reinstate Epic’s developer program

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business When Microsoft closed its Redmond, Washington offices in March 2020 due to the pandemic, the Surface team grabbed what they could for their home offices. For a handful of engineers and product designers, that included The Frankenstein, a prototype for a versatile, transformable laptop built in concert with Windows

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Ryan Schmutzer and Tracy Bloemer, owners of businesses that deliver packages for Amazon in Portland, Oregon, hit their breaking point this spring. Both had run technically independent businesses since 2019 that usually rent vans owned by Amazon, and are paid by Amazon to deliver its packages. The businesses are called

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Google is dramatically expanding its office presence in New York City with a $2.1 billion purchase on Manhattan’s West Side. The move comes even as the company embracing a hybrid work model because of the pandemic. Google said Tuesday that the new office will be an “anchor” of its sprawling

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business A longtime Theranos scientist depicted Elizabeth Holmes as prioritizing a business partnership over the possible well-being of patients in testimony capping off the first full week of witnesses taking the stand in the criminal trial of the disgraced founder. The witness, Surekha Gangakhedkar, a scientist who worked for Theranos

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Four people, all of whom just six months ago had no formal spaceflight training, strapped themselves into a SpaceX capsule atop a 200-foot-tall rocket and took a three-day spin around Earth. After splashing down off the coast of Florida on Saturday, the passengers emerged from their capsule, smiling and waving,

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple’s latest major software update — packed with features to help people better focus, connect with others on FaceTime and keep track of medical records, including vaccine status and test results — is now available for download. Although it’s not a massive design overhaul, many of changes coming to

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Employees at Telhio Credit Union are already used to having their internal communications monitored to ensure compliance with US financial rules. But Telhio, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, and has over 250 employees, recently began watching for something else, too: indications of unconscious and overt bias in emails, texts,

By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Elon Musk mocked President Joe Biden over the weekend after Saturday’s successful splashdown of SpaceX’s Inspiration4 flight carried four tourists on a three-day orbital mission. When someone asked Musk on Twitter why Biden hadn’t acknowledged the accomplishment, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO offered some choice words. “He’s still sleeping,” Musk

By Laura He, CNN Business Cheng Wei built a world-class ride-hailing app that not even Uber could keep up with in China. But Didi’s risky play for expansion and dominance — culminating in a disastrous IPO this summer — has caused it to run afoul of Beijing. And now, the company’s top executive faces a

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business The Chinese version of TikTok is introducing a “teenage mode” that will limit the amount of time children under the age of 14 spend on the short-form video app to 40 minutes a day. The measure will apply to all Douyin users under the age of 14 who have registered

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Four people returned to Earth from a three-day extraterrestrial excursion aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Saturday evening, marking the end of the first-ever flight to Earth’s orbit flown entirely by tourists or otherwise non-astronauts. “Thanks so much SpaceX, it was a heck of a ride for us,” billionaire