• Bedbugs are making France itchy, and the 2024 Summer Olympics crowds are coming

    Bedbugs are making France itchy, and the 2024 Summer Olympics crowds are coming

    Oct 05, 2023 01:24 PM EST

    ... supposedly burrowing in the seat of a fast train. Still, bedbugs have plagued France and other countries for decades. The insects the size of an apple seed that neither jump nor fly get around as easily as people travel from city to city and nation to nation, and they have ...

  • What's next for Hollywood after writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike

    What's next for Hollywood after writers and studios reach tentative deal to end strike

    Sep 25, 2023 10:55 PM EST

    ... asking for is 2 percent of revenue generated by the shows where their actors star. And, as anyone who knows, with these big data companies, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, they don't share. They don't share data. And that makes it almost impossible to figure out how they could come ...

  • Usher to headline Super Bowl halftime show in 2024

    Usher to headline Super Bowl halftime show in 2024

    Sep 24, 2023 07:48 PM EST

    ... take the stage we’re looking forward to another incredible Halftime Show from one of the world’s all-time greatest performers,” said Oliver Schusser, Apple’s Vice President of Apple Music, Apple TV+, Sports, and Beats. Usher will join a list of celebrated musicians who have played during Super ...

  • Ukraine complains to WTO about Hungary, Poland and Slovakia banning its food products

    Ukraine complains to WTO about Hungary, Poland and Slovakia banning its food products

    Sep 19, 2023 05:59 PM EST

    In an interview with Poland’s Rzeczpospolita daily published Tuesday, Ukrainian deputy trade minister Taras Kachka said his country had lost hope in reaching a deal with Poland and said that within days, “Ukraine will introduce a ban on Poland’s farming produce like onions, tomatoes, cabbage and apples." The ...

  • Is art a good investment? Experts weigh in on stock markets for artwork

    Is art a good investment? Experts weigh in on stock markets for artwork

    Sep 18, 2023 10:25 PM EST

    Yassir Benjelloun-Touimi: When you buy share in Apple at any time are you sure they're not going to lose value? Paul Solman: Now ARTEX is the latest firm to sell shares in individual works of art, but not the first. Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal: In the past ...

  • Princeton student’s sister urges action months after suspected abduction by Iraqi militia

    Princeton student’s sister urges action months after suspected abduction by Iraqi militia

    Sep 15, 2023 10:35 PM EST

    ... of Elizabeth Tsurkov: We're very close. We text each other daily. And she loves my son, her only nephew, so much. He's the apple of her eye, truly. And no matter what's going on, and even if she is mad at me, she will always respond to ...

  • Google's search dominance faces big antitrust challenge in landmark trial

    Google's search dominance faces big antitrust challenge in landmark trial

    Sep 12, 2023 03:40 PM EST

    ... payments. “This is not a negotiation," he said. “This is Google saying: Take it or leave it.” He said the company's anticompetitive tactics prevented Apple from developing a search engine of its own. “They kept Apple from evolving into a search competitor,” he said. And Dintzer said that Google ...

  • DOJ takes Google to court in biggest monopoly trial of modern digital era

    DOJ takes Google to court in biggest monopoly trial of modern digital era

    Sep 11, 2023 10:35 PM EST

    They're going to argue that the definitions of what is search is much broader. And they're going to argue that consumers like their products and that these contracts, very importantly, that they have struck with Apple, Firefox, Samsung and other companies to make their search engine the default ...

  • U.S. regulators to challenge Google's search engine dominance in federal trial

    U.S. regulators to challenge Google's search engine dominance in federal trial

    Sep 11, 2023 04:48 PM EST

    Google could be hobbled if the antitrust trial culminates in concessions that undercut its power. One possibility is that the company could be forced to stop paying Apple and other companies to make Google the default search engine on smartphones and computers. Or the legal battle could cause Google to ...

  • Inside the White House Situation Room’s $50 million upgrade

    Inside the White House Situation Room’s $50 million upgrade

    Sep 08, 2023 09:02 AM EST

    ... no phones are allowed. In fact, no electronics, at all, are allowed. A couple of reporters on the tour were told to hand over their Apple watches after forgetting to remove them before entering. No one without the right clearance can be allowed to hear or see what goes on ...