By Jennifer Korn, CNN Hang onto your baby bonnets: Self-driving technology is coming to strollers. Canadian-based baby gear startup Gluxkind was showing off its Ella AI Powered Smart Stroller at this year’s CES, the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas that offers some of the most cutting edge — and out-there — new technologies. The
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple is raising the price of battery replacements for all out-of-warranty iPhone models prior to the current iPhone 14 lineup, the company confirmed on its website. Starting March 1, Apple will charge $89 for battery replacements for iPhone X through iPhone 13 models, a $20 increase from the current
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business A new take on a foldable phone. A pricey toilet sensor that monitors hydration and vitamin levels. And an AI-powered oven. The Consumer Electronics Show, now in its 56th year, kicks off this week in Las Vegas with a familiar mix of cutting edge technology and oddball gadgets. The
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Salesforce said Wednesday that it will cut approximately 10% of its workforce and reduce its real estate footprint, making it the latest tech company to slash expenses as broader economic uncertainty continues to hit Silicon Valley particularly hard. In a letter to employees announcing the job cuts, Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s chair
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Tesla’s China chief has reportedly been given a big promotion. Tom Zhu has been handed Tesla’s US assembly plants and sales operations in North America and Europe as additional responsibilities, leaving just the Berlin Gigafactory outside his remit, according to media reports on Tuesday. The reports have intensified speculation that China-born
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Developers at a Microsoft-owned gaming studio voted on Tuesday to form the first ever US union at the tech giant, in a milestone moment both for the company and the video game industry. Some 300 quality assurance workers at Microsoft’s ZeniMax Studios voted to unionize with the Communications
Continue ReadingCNN By Jennifer Korn and Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Developers at a Microsoft-owned gaming studio voted on Tuesday to form the first ever US union at the tech giant, in a milestone moment both for the company and the video game industry. Some 300 quality assurance workers at Microsoft’s ZeniMax Studios voted to unionize with the
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN A commercial landlord is suing Twitter for breach of contract after the company allegedly failed to pay rent for one of its offices in San Francisco. The lawsuit concerns Twitter’s office space at 650 California Street, not its main headquarters on Market Street. But it comes after media reports last month
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple’s market cap fell below $2 trillion in trading Tuesday for the first time since early 2021 and one year to the day after the company became the first public tech company valued at $3 trillion. Shares of Apple ended Tuesday down nearly 4% after a report raised concerns
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn One tech company is trying to help its employees kick off the new year with a clean slate, or at least an emptier calendar. In a memo to employees Tuesday, Shopify said it would do away with all previously scheduled recurring meetings involving three or more people and impose a “two-week cooling
Continue ReadingBy Wayne Chang and Juliana Liu, CNN Production at the world’s biggest iPhone factory, disrupted since October by China’s Covid-19 restrictions and worker protests, is now running at nearly full capacity, according to a Chinese state media report. The sprawling campus in central China, owned by Apple supplier Foxconn, was running at 90% of planned
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Millman, CNN TikTok is an addictive drug China’s government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China. GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin told NBC’s “Meet The Press” in an interview that aired Sunday that he calls TikTok “digital fentanyl” because “it’s highly addictive and
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN On the first trading day of 2022, Apple hit a new milestone for the tech industry: the iPhone maker became the first publicly traded company to hit a $3 trillion market cap, with Microsoft and Google not far behind. As eye-popping as that valuation was, there were headlines speculating about how
Continue ReadingCNN, WIBW By Andrew Millman, CNN TikTok is an addictive drug China’s government is providing to Americans, says the incoming chairman of a new House select committee on China. GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin told NBC’s “Meet The Press” in an interview that aired Sunday that he calls TikTok “digital fentanyl” because “it’s highly
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN TikTok has been banned from electronic devices managed by the US House of Representatives, according to an internal notice sent to House staff. Users who install the short-form video app on any House mobile device will be asked to remove the software, according to the notice, which was provided to CNN
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a longstanding class action lawsuit accusing it of allowing Cambridge Analytica and other third parties to access private user information and misleading users about its privacy practices. The proposed settlement would end the legal battle that began four years
Continue ReadingBy CNN staff Bone conduction headphones, TV streaming devices and Bluetooth speakers are among the tech gadgets topping holiday wish lists this year. Other notable products — ahem, the new 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max — are near impossible to find. But as the year comes to an end, the staff at CNN is
Continue ReadingCNN, CNN BUSINESS By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Over the years, Apple has added touchscreens to almost every computing device imaginable, from phones and tablets to smartwatches, but it has refrained from bringing the feature to its Mac product line — even as a long list of rivals did so with their laptops and
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Additional Twitter employees were terminated Thursday as part of ongoing, rolling layoffs under new owner Elon Musk, including from the public policy and media and entertainment teams, according to tweets from affected employees. As part of Thursday’s layoffs, the members of Twitter’s public policy team who had remained following last month’s
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN TikTok parent company ByteDance has fired four employees who improperly accessed the personal data of two journalists on the platform, TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter confirmed to CNN Thursday. TikTok user data from the two journalists, who worked for the Financial Times and BuzzFeed, was accessed while ByteDance employees were investigating potential
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