Technology

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple on Thursday said it will begin testing a new system to automatically match photos on iPhones and uploaded iCloud accounts to a database of child sexual abuse images and alert authorities as needed. The new service will turn photos on devices into an unreadable set of hashes —

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Virgin Galactic says it’s re-opening ticket sales for the first time in years, giving anyone who can afford it the chance to reserve a seat on the company’s rocket-powered suborbital space plane for $450,000, a significant markup over what tickets were previously sold for. The news comes after Virgin Galactic

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Amazon on Thursday pushed back its office return date until early next year amid a surge in Covid-19 cases from the Delta variant, making it one of the most significant delays yet in the tech industry. The online retail giant’s corporate workers in multiple countries, including the United States, were

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Smartphone season is underway, and the headlines will almost certainly be the same as always: thinner, sleeker, faster models are coming to consumer pockets. But if a new push from the US government succeeds, future smartphones may also have to be designed for something extra — the ability to

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Nintendo’s pandemic boom may be coming to an end. The Japanese company said Thursday that sales fell nearly 10% in the quarter ended June, a sign that fewer people stayed at home to play video games as some countries around the world began to reopen. Operating profit dropped more than

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Last year, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart succeeded in getting Californians to vote in favor of a ballot measure exempting them from classifying drivers and delivery workers as employees. Now, the companies are in the early stages of taking a similar approach in Massachusetts. The coalition representing these gig

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business The long-awaited test flight of Boeing’s Starliner, which is designed to carry astronauts and compete with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, is once again delayed. It’s just one more setback in a series of them for a trial that NASA and Boeing desperately want to go off without any major issues

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Activision Blizzard is raking in the cash even as the fallout over a harassment and discrimination lawsuit threatens its enormous business. The gaming company behind hugely popular titles such as “Call of Duty,” “World of Warcraft” and “Candy Crush” reported revenues of around $2.3 billion for the quarter that ended

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Even if you’re not an avid gamer, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of “Call of Duty,” “World of Warcraft” or “Candy Crush.” Those games, which are played by hundreds of millions of people around the world and have in some cases attained the status of cultural phenomena, all belong

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Next time you’re walking alone at night or meeting up with a stranger for a first date, one startup would like to listen in — with the goal of protecting you. Citizen, an app best known and sometimes criticized for sending real-time crime and emergency alerts that can put

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business A National Labor Relations Board official is recommending that the results of the milestone union election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama held earlier this year be scrapped and that a new election be held due to illegal misconduct on the part of the e-commerce giant. The recommendation from

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates are officially divorced, after a judge approved their split on Monday. The powerhouse couple — who met at Microsoft in 1987 and married in 1994 — announced in May that they would be ending their marriage after 27 years, saying, “we no longer believe

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Google on Monday kicked off smartphone season by previewing its new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones. But it also signaled a new era for the Pixel, shifting it away from a mid-tier line with a niche user base to premium status, in a move that could position

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business After several delays, Boeing is now slated to launch its long-anticipated Starliner spacecraft — which is built to carry NASA astronauts — on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station, a follow-up to the company’s botched first attempt 18 months ago. It will be a decisive moment for

By Rob McLean, CNN Business Jack Dorsey’s Square is spending $29 billion on an Australian buy now, pay later firm — a massive purchase that will help his company build out its global payments empire. Square — the financial payments company known for its popular Cash App — said it plans to merge Afterpay with