• CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take the average worker 2 lifetimes to make their annual pay

    CEOs got smaller raises. It would still take the average worker 2 lifetimes to make their annual pay

    May 31, 2023 09:56 PM EST

    ... saw their total compensation fall 11 percent and 12 percent in 2022, respectively, to $30.4 million and $30 million. Higher up the pay scale, Apple CEO Tim Cook was no. 3 in the AP survey with a compensation package valued at $99.4 million, nearly identical to what Apple ...

  • Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for Theranos hoax

    Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence for Theranos hoax

    May 30, 2023 05:58 PM EST

    ... The minimum-security facility is about 95 miles northwest of Houston, where Holmes grew up aspiring to become a technology visionary along the lines of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. As she begins her sentence, Holmes is leaving behind two young children — a son born in July 2021 a few ...

  • Elizabeth Holmes, former Theranos CEO, reports to federal prison for 11 year sentence

    Elizabeth Holmes, former Theranos CEO, reports to federal prison for 11 year sentence

    May 30, 2023 03:55 PM EST

    ... camp located in Bryan, Texas, located about 100 miles from Houston, where she grew up aspiring to become a technology visionary along the lines of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Once she enters prison, Holmes will be leaving behind two young children — a son born in July 2021 a few ...

  • Tracing a rich history of Black American cuisine in Edna Lewis’ footsteps

    Tracing a rich history of Black American cuisine in Edna Lewis’ footsteps

    May 25, 2023 09:10 PM EST

    ... at restaurants nearby in honor of the 50th anniversary of her first cookbook, running from Thanksgiving 2022 to Memorial Day. Thompson leapt at the chance to add Lewis’ dishes to her menu – curried chicken, apple pie and quiche Lorraine. Items that would be true to Coopers, her mother and Lewis.

  • 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 ...