• Small retailers find ways to adapt amid pandemic and online shopping convenience

    Small retailers find ways to adapt amid pandemic and online shopping convenience

    Dec 22, 2022 11:30 PM EST

    ... bundt business. Andre Wilson: So, I do some really fun things with bundt cake. For instance, I have a lemon and thyme, lemon and basil, apples and olive oil. Paul Solman: So it's good for you too. Andre Wilson: It's really good for you, yes. Don't worry ...

  • The fight to reduce food waste is getting a boost from science

    The fight to reduce food waste is getting a boost from science

    Dec 10, 2022 06:17 PM EST

    ... a sugar packet that can slowly release 1-MCP into a box of produce. Mike Mazie, the facilities and storage manager at BelleHarvest, a large apple packing facility in Belding, Michigan, ordered around 3,000 sachets this year. He used them for surplus bins that couldn’t fit into the ...

  • FTC challenges Facebook parent Meta's acquisition of VR company

    FTC challenges Facebook parent Meta's acquisition of VR company

    Dec 08, 2022 09:56 PM EST

    ... build its own VR fitness app, said FTC lawyer Abby Dennis. Instead, she added, when Meta heard a rumor that Within was being pursued by Apple, it decided instead “to just acquire the market leader” in the space. Meta lawyer Mark Hansen, disputed the FTC's claim that the company ...

  • Former Theranos executive gets nearly 13 years for role in hoax

    Former Theranos executive gets nearly 13 years for role in hoax

    Dec 07, 2022 11:00 PM EST

    ... revelations that its blood-testing technology never worked as Holmes had boasted in glowing magazine articles that likened her to Silicon Valley visionaries such as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Before Theranos' downfall, Holmes teamed up with Balwani to raise nearly $1 billion from deep-pocketed investors that included software ...

  • Former executive faces sentencing in Theranos case

    Former executive faces sentencing in Theranos case

    Dec 07, 2022 04:51 PM EST

    ... revelations that its blood-testing technology never worked as Holmes had boasted in glowing magazine articles that likened her to Silicon Valley visionaries such as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Before Theranos' downfall, Holmes teamed up with Balwani to raise nearly $1 billion from deep-pocketed investors that included software ...

  • WATCH: Biden visits Arizona semiconductor site, highlights job growth

    WATCH: Biden visits Arizona semiconductor site, highlights job growth

    Dec 06, 2022 05:38 PM EST

    ... Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey attended the event, as did his newly elected Democratic successor, Katie Hobbs, Arizona's current secretary of state. Also attending were Apple CEO Tim Cook, TSMC founder Morris Chang, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Biden uses his visits to chip plants to ...

  • WATCH: Jill Biden shows off White House 'We the People' holiday decorations

    WATCH: Jill Biden shows off White House 'We the People' holiday decorations

    Nov 28, 2022 09:46 PM EST

    Recipes contributed by the small army of volunteer decorators spruce up the China Room's mantel. Handwritten ones — for apple crisp and pizzelle, an Italian cookie — are family recipes shared by the first lady. Aides say she was inspired by people she met while traveling around the country and by ...

  • News Wrap: Russian lawmakers expand restrictions on promoting LGBTQ rights

    News Wrap: Russian lawmakers expand restrictions on promoting LGBTQ rights

    Nov 24, 2022 11:55 PM EST

    ... artwork stolen by Russian forces during their occupation of Kherson. Alina Dotsenko, Director, Kherson Art Museum (through translator): There wasn't even room for an apple to fall. There were 14,000 items in total. How many are left now, I just don't know. William Brangham: All of that ...

  • Russian forces steal priceless Ukrainian artwork during occupation of Kherson

    Russian forces steal priceless Ukrainian artwork during occupation of Kherson

    Nov 24, 2022 11:40 PM EST

    ... Russian soldiers turned up in trucks and stole the most valuable paintings, icons and sculptures. Alina Dotsenko, Director, Kherson Art Museum (through translator): There wasn't even room for an apple to fall. There were 14,000 items in total. How many are left now, I just don't know.

  • Foxconn apologizes for pay dispute that sparked factory protests in China

    Foxconn apologizes for pay dispute that sparked factory protests in China

    Nov 24, 2022 05:40 PM EST

    ... 6.6 million residents were told to stay home for five days. Daily mass testing was ordered for a “war of annihilation” against the virus. Apple earlier warned iPhone 14 deliveries would be delayed after employees walked out of the Zhengzhou factory and access to the industrial zone around the ...