• Judge in landmark antitrust case grills Google on search engine dominance

    Judge in landmark antitrust case grills Google on search engine dominance

    May 02, 2024 10:37 PM EDT

    ... Federal prosecutors allege that Google protects its franchise by shelling out more than $20 billion annually to ensure its search engine automatically answers queries on Apple's iPhone and web browsers such as Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox. Lawyers for the Department of Justice contend the money that Google spends ...

  • WATCH: First lady Jill Biden hosts state dinner for 2024 Teachers of the Year

    WATCH: First lady Jill Biden hosts state dinner for 2024 Teachers of the Year

    May 02, 2024 09:14 PM EDT

    ... their seat by a handmade thank-you note from their students, fellow teachers and school leadership that was organized by their school principal. Dinner was apple, walnut and celery root salad followed by a main course of lobster ravioli. Dessert was a trio of strawberries and cream, apple mousse and ...

  • How U.S. banning TikTok could affect you

    How U.S. banning TikTok could affect you

    Apr 24, 2024 03:45 PM EDT

    ... to see the same stuff. WATCH: U.S. effort to force TikTok sale faces complicated path “The TikTok bill relies heavily on the control that Apple and Google maintain over their smartphone platforms because the bill’s primary mechanism is to direct Apple and Google to stop allowing the TikTok ...

  • U.S. effort to force TikTok sale faces complicated path

    U.S. effort to force TikTok sale faces complicated path

    Apr 23, 2024 10:35 PM EDT

    It says that app stores run by companies like Apple or Google couldn't carry TikTok, couldn't make it available for download, and that the same is true of Web hosting companies. Think about the sort of invisible infrastructure of the Internet, of servers that host apps and help ...

  • Climate change is shifting plant growth zones. Here's what to know for your garden this year

    Climate change is shifting plant growth zones. Here's what to know for your garden this year

    Apr 07, 2024 06:28 PM EDT

    ... as affecting hot Southern gardens, but has become more commonplace recently in the Northeast U.S. on tomatoes, pumpkins and squash, and other crops, including apples in Pennsylvania. Other plant pathogens may take advantage of milder winter temperatures, which leads to prolonged saturation of soils instead of freezing. Both plants ...

  • Documentary captures journalist's gender transition while embedded with Taliban

    Documentary captures journalist's gender transition while embedded with Taliban

    Apr 04, 2024 10:25 PM EDT

    A new documentary now available on Amazon Prime and AppleTV offers an in-depth look at the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. "Transition" follows Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon as he undergoes a gender transition while embedded with a Taliban unit. Bryon and co-director Monica Villamizar spoke with Amna Nawaz about ...

  • At least 9 dead, 70 quarry workers trapped after major earthquake strikes Taiwan

    At least 9 dead, 70 quarry workers trapped after major earthquake strikes Taiwan

    Apr 03, 2024 02:06 PM EDT

    ... grid were shut down, possibly leading to disruptions in the supply chain and financial losses. Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC, which supplies semiconductors to companies such as Apple, said it evacuated employees from some of its factories in Hsinchu, southwest of Taipei. Hsinchu authorities said water and electricity supplies for all the ...

  • Mosques in NYC struggle to house and feed an influx of Muslim migrants this Ramadan

    Mosques in NYC struggle to house and feed an influx of Muslim migrants this Ramadan

    Apr 02, 2024 10:39 PM EDT

    ... residence that houses his mosque into a makeshift overnight shelter for migrants, many of them men from his native Senegal. Islamic institutions in the Big Apple are struggling to keep up with the needs of the city's migrant population as an increasing number of asylum seekers come from Muslim ...

  • College will cost up to $95,000 this fall. Schools say financial aid can numb sticker shock

    College will cost up to $95,000 this fall. Schools say financial aid can numb sticker shock

    Apr 02, 2024 07:38 PM EDT

    ... student aid program because it has an endowment worth more than $50 billion, the largest of any university. The sticker prices don't always provide apples-to-apples comparisons because some colleges include costs like health insurance and travel expenses, while others don't. And some colleges that last year ...

  • 20 years ago, people thought Google's Gmail launch was an April Fool's Day joke

    20 years ago, people thought Google's Gmail launch was an April Fool's Day joke

    Mar 31, 2024 07:21 PM EDT

    ... who rarely see the need to purge their accounts, just as Google hoped. The digital hoarding of email, photos and other content is why Google, Apple and other companies now make money from selling additional storage capacity in their data centers. (In Google's case, it charges anywhere from $30 ...