Arkansas sues YouTube over claims that the site is fueling a mental health...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas sued YouTube and parent company Alphabet on Monday, saying the video-sharing platform is made deliberately addictive and fueling a mental health crisis among youth in...
View ArticleAustralia's online dating industry adopts code of conduct to keep users safer
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A code of conduct will be enforced on the online dating industry to better protect Australian users after research found that three-in-four people suffer some form of...
View ArticleNew Jersey offshore wind farm clears big federal hurdle amid environmental...
SEA GIRT, N.J. (AP) — The federal government gave a key approval Tuesday to an offshore wind farm in New Jersey, even as residents in the town where its power cable would come ashore worry it could go...
View ArticleAppeals court reinstates Indiana lawsuit against TikTok alleging child...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the video-sharing platform's level of inappropriate content...
View ArticleDetails from New Mexico's lawsuit against Snap show site failed to act on...
Snapchat failed to act on “rampant” reports of child grooming, sextortion and other dangers to minors on its platform, according to a newly unredacted complaint against the company filed by New...
View ArticleTesla posts first quarterly increase in deliveries, but shares slump with...
Low interest financing, sweet lease deals, price cuts and free charging boosted Tesla’s global deliveries in the third quarter, the first increase this year for the electric vehicle maker. The Austin,...
View ArticleDutch government blames a 'state actor' for hacking a police network
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A cyberattack that broke into a police account and accessed work-related contact details of all Dutch police officers was almost certainly carried out by hackers working...
View ArticleGoogle's search engine's latest AI injection will answer voiced questions...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is injecting its search engine with more artificial intelligence that will enable people to voice questions about images and occasionally organize an entire page of...
View ArticleGoogle says it will stop linking to New Zealand news if a law passes forcing...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Google said Friday it will stop linking to New Zealand news content and will reverse its support of local media outlets if the government passes a law forcing tech...
View ArticleCivilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of...
MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including “probably hundreds of hours” colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. So when...
View ArticleAdvocacy groups suspend use of 'suicide capsule' pending Swiss criminal probe...
Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule said Sunday they have suspended the process of taking applications to use it — which numbered over 370 last month — as a criminal investigation into...
View ArticleThe Titan's former lead engineer says he felt pressured to get the...
The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic testified Monday that he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it for...
View ArticleTikTok is designed to be addictive to kids and causes them harm, US states'...
More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, saying that the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms their mental...
View ArticleUS considers asking court to break up Google as it weighs remedies in the...
The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to force Google to sell parts of its business in order to eliminate its online search monopoly. In a late court filing on Tuesday,...
View ArticleAmerican Water cyberattack renews focus on protecting critical infrastructure
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A cyberattack continues to affect the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States, renewing a focus on the importance of protecting critical...
View ArticleNorth Carolina maker of high-purity quartz back operating post-Helene
SPRUCE PINE, N.C. (AP) — One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors and other high-tech products from mines in a western North Carolina community...
View ArticleVolunteers bring solar power to Hurricane Helene's disaster zone
BAKERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene downed power lines and washed out roads all over North Carolina's mountains, the constant din of a gas-powered generator is getting to...
View ArticleMurder trial of tech consultant in death of Cash App founder Bob Lee begins
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The murder trial of a tech consultant in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee begins Monday, a year and a half after the widely admired entrepreneur was found staggering...
View ArticleCountries that have cashed in on their top-level domain names
LONDON (AP) — Anguilla is raking in extra revenue from registration fees for its .ai web domain thanks to the artificial intelligence boom, but it's not the only place cashing in on demand for...
View ArticleMexico says foreign firms have pledged $20 billion in investments, but many...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials announced Tuesday what they claimed was $20 billion in new foreign direct investment in Mexico, but much of that was neither new, nor completely certain. Investor...
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