By Brian Fung and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as chief operating officer of Facebook-parent Meta, the company confirmed on Wednesday. In a post on Facebook, Sandberg did not disclose the reason for her departure from the company, which will take place in the fall. Sandberg said she planned to focus
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Instagram on Wednesday began rolling out an Amber Alert feature on its platform to notify users of missing children in their area. The alerts, which will be available in the United States and two dozen other countries, will include details about the missing child, such as a photo, description and
Continue ReadingBy Chris Isidore, CNN Business Elon Musk is demanding that Tesla office workers return to in-person work or leave the company. The policy, disclosed in leaked emails Musk sent to Tesla’s executive staff Tuesday, was first reported by electric vehicle news site Electrek. “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Amazon has sharply criticized a looming antitrust bill in Congress that it says unfairly targets the company and could degrade its customers’ experience. In a blog post Wednesday, Amazon VP of Public Policy Brian Huseman alleged that a bill led by Sen. Amy Klobuchar in the Senate and Rep. David Cicilline
Continue ReadingCNN By Brian Fung and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court of the United States temporarily blocked a sweeping Texas law on Tuesday that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate content on their platforms. By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency request from the tech industry to block
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung and Ariane de Vogue, CNN The Supreme Court of the United States temporarily blocked a sweeping Texas law on Tuesday that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate content on their platforms. By a 5-4 vote, the justices granted an emergency request from the tech industry to block a
Continue ReadingBy 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 a more
Continue ReadingBy Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business A fuschia Bentley drives down a twisty desert road toward the entrance of the Neon Carnival, an after-party held each year during Coachella. Paris Hilton has arrived. Her hair is in pigtails, twisted in part with white flowers, and she’s wearing a sparkly pink romper that matches her platform
Continue ReadingCNN By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business A fuschia Bentley drives down a twisty desert road toward the entrance of the Neon Carnival, an after-party held each year during Coachella. Paris Hilton has arrived. Her hair is in pigtails, twisted in part with white flowers, and she’s wearing a sparkly pink romper that matches her
Continue ReadingBy 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 international advocacy
Continue ReadingBy Brian Fung, CNN Business Twitter has agreed to pay $150 million in fines after the US government sued the social media company on Wednesday, alleging that it misled consumers about how it protects their personal data. According to the federal lawsuit, Twitter failed to tell its users for years that it used their contact
Continue ReadingBy 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 ISS
Continue ReadingBy Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter on Wednesday held what could be its last annual shareholder meeting as a public company for a long time after Elon Musk agreed to take it private in a $44 billion deal. But the meeting took place against the backdrop of ongoing drama over Musk’s attempts to pause the
Continue ReadingCNN, 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 ReadingCNN 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 ReadingBy 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 US
Continue ReadingBy 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 of
Continue ReadingCNN 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 ReadingCNN, 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 ReadingBy 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 cameras
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