• UPS strike looms in a world increasingly reliant on delivery services

    UPS strike looms in a world increasingly reliant on delivery services

    May 23, 2023 04:50 PM EST

    ... Amazon workers and dozens of company delivery drivers and dispatchers in California joined the union last month. There are also prominent labor organization campaigns at Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe's, Apple, even strippers at a dance club in Los Angeles. “This has just huge implications for the entire labor movement ...

  • Michael J. Fox tells story of his career and living with Parkinson's in new documentary

    Michael J. Fox tells story of his career and living with Parkinson's in new documentary

    May 19, 2023 10:25 PM EST

    An incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease. That’s the focus of Michael J. Fox's new documentary “Still” just released on Apple TV+. In it, he tells the story of his career and his battle with Parkinson's disease in his own words. Amna Nawaz sat down with Fox ...

  • Can Montana enforce a TikTok ban?

    Can Montana enforce a TikTok ban?

    May 19, 2023 12:08 AM EST

    ... a lobbyist for AT&T said during a February hearing the legislation was “not workable” to put into effect. Could tech companies block it? Apple and Google have not spoken out against the law. But a representative for TechNet, the trade group that counts the two tech giants as ...

  • What Montana's TikTok ban means for the popular social media app and its users

    What Montana's TikTok ban means for the popular social media app and its users

    May 18, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    Amna Nawaz:  It's also interesting. They're not going after users. They're going after companies. They're holding companies and the platforms responsible, which would also seem to imply that Google and Apple would have to comply and cooperate for this enforcement to work in any way. Do ...

  • Hollywood faces larger work stoppage as actors threaten to strike alongside writers

    Hollywood faces larger work stoppage as actors threaten to strike alongside writers

    May 18, 2023 10:30 PM EST

    ... putting even more pressure on studios and networks.    The ongoing writers strike has halted production movies and scripted series like "Stranger Things" on Netflix, Apple TV's "Severance" and Showtime's "Yellowjackets." Late-night TV shows have already gone dark.    For more on the strike and what's ...

  • U.S. announces criminal cases tracing an illegal flow of technology to Russia, China and Iran

    U.S. announces criminal cases tracing an illegal flow of technology to Russia, China and Iran

    May 16, 2023 07:38 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced a series of criminal cases Tuesday tracing the illegal flow of sensitive technology, including Apple's software code for self-driving cars and materials used for missiles, to foreign adversaries like Russia, China and Iran. Some of the alleged theft highlighted by the department ...

  • What to expect from this year's blockbuster Cannes Film Festival

    What to expect from this year's blockbuster Cannes Film Festival

    May 15, 2023 06:16 PM EST

    This time, though, they'll debut much bigger films, sure to be the hottest tickets on the Croisette. Scorsese has his $200 million epic for Apple TV+. And Mangold will premiere, as he says, “a more splendiferous project" than his minimalist debut. The “Indy” celebration will include a tribute to ...

  • Google is giving its dominant search engine an artificial-intelligence makeover

    Google is giving its dominant search engine an artificial-intelligence makeover

    May 10, 2023 10:44 PM EST

    ... recently, The New York Times reported Samsung is considering dropping Google as the default search engine on its widely used smartphones, raising the specter that Apple might adopt a similar tactic with the iPhone unless Google can show its search engine can evolve with what appears to be a forthcoming ...

  • Transgender minors protected from estranged parents under Washington law

    Transgender minors protected from estranged parents under Washington law

    May 09, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... expected to pass a bill that would further expand insurance coverage for gender-affirming care to include things like facial hair removal and Adam’s apple reduction surgery, procedures currently considered cosmetic by insurers but seen as critical to the mental health of transitioning women. WATCH: Battles over reproductive, transgender ...

  • In global rush to regulate AI, Europe Union rules set to be trailblazer

    In global rush to regulate AI, Europe Union rules set to be trailblazer

    May 09, 2023 02:40 PM EST

    ... common phone-charging cables, though such efforts have been criticized for stifling innovation. Attitudes could be different this time. Tech leaders including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak have called for a six-month pause to consider the risks. Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist known as the “Godfather ...