Academic researchers blast Twitter’s data paywall as ‘outrageously expensive’
By Brian Fung, CNN After Twitter announced in February it would begin charging third parties to access its platform data, academic researchers warned…
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Tech executive Bob Lee, founder of Cash App, dead after apparent stabbing attack in San Francisco
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Bob Lee, the former chief technology officer of Square who helped launch Cash App, has died after an apparent stabbing…
Continue Reading How your phone learned to see in the dark
By Samantha Kelly Open up Instagram at any given moment and it probably won’t take long to find crisp pictures of the night sky, a skyline…
Continue Reading Amazon axes bookseller Book Depository as it cuts costs
By Anna Cooban, CNN Amazon plans to shut down global online book store Book Depository after almost two decades. The UK-based bookseller, bought by…
Continue Reading Amazon, Microsoft could face UK antitrust probe over cloud services
By Hanna Ziady, CNN Britain’s media and communications regulator Ofcom says it has “significant concerns” that Amazon and Microsoft…
Continue Reading First on CNN: A new group of Twitter vendors is suing the company for alleged unpaid bills
By Clare Duffy, CNN Business A group of Twitter vendors on Tuesday filed a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the company has failed to pay…
Continue Reading Apple’s Weather app briefly went down and rained on everyone’s morning
By Jennifer Korn Anyone using their iPhone to check the weather on Tuesday may have had better luck just looking out the window. Apple’s…
Continue Reading Apple’s Weather app briefly went down and rained on everyone’s morning
CNN, WYMT, WLEX, WKYT, KTVT By Jennifer Korn Anyone using their iPhone to check the weather on Tuesday may have had better luck just looking out the…
Continue Reading Australia bans TikTok on federal government devices
By Chris Lau, CNN Australia has joined other Western countries in banning the use of TikTok on government devices as the Chinese-owned video app…
Continue Reading Elon Musk’s Twitter promised a purge of blue check marks. Instead he singled out one account
By Clare Duffy, CNN Some VIP Twitter users woke up on Saturday expecting to have lost their coveted blue verification check marks in a previously…
Continue Reading 50 years ago, he made the first cell phone call
By Jennifer Korn On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on a sidewalk on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan with a device the size of a brick and made the…
Continue Reading ‘I’ve never seen anything like this:’ One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users, say experts
CNN By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Juliana Liu, CNN It is one of China’s most popular shopping apps, selling clothing, groceries and just about…
Continue Reading Micron Technology: China probes US chip maker for cybersecurity risks as tech tension escalates
By Laura He, CNN China has launched a cybersecurity probe into Micron Technology, one of America’s largest memory chip makers, in apparent…
Continue Reading ‘I’ve never seen anything like this:’ One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users, say experts
By Nectar Gan, Yong Xiong and Juliana Liu, CNN It is one of China’s most popular shopping apps, selling clothing, groceries and just about…
Continue Reading Puffer coat Pope. Musk on a date with GM CEO. Fake AI ‘news’ images are fooling social media users
By Clare Duffy, CNN Pope Francis wearing a massive, white puffer coat. Elon Musk walking hand-in-hand with rival GM CEO Mary Barra. Former President…
Continue Reading Welcome to the era of viral AI generated ‘news’ images
CNN By Clare Duffy, CNN Pope Francis wearing a massive, white puffer coat. Elon Musk walking hand-in-hand with rival GM CEO Mary Barra. Former…
Continue Reading A grassroots group took on Amazon and won. Then came the hard part
By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN When the Amazon Labor Union shocked the world last April by successfully forming the first US union in the e-commerce…
Continue Reading What Americans think of a TikTok ban
By Brian Fung, CNN Half of Americans support a US government ban on TikTok, while 22% oppose the idea and more than a quarter are unsure, according…
Continue Reading Italy blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns
By Livvy Doherty and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Regulators in Italy issued a temporary ban on ChatGPT Friday, effective immediately, due to privacy…
Continue Reading NATO bans TikTok on devices
By Natasha Bertrand, CNN NATO has officially banned staffers from downloading the social media app TikTok onto their NATO-provided devices, citing…
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