Oct 07 Watch 4:37 News Wrap: Weakened Hurricane Delta crosses Yucatan Peninsula In our news wrap Wednesday, Hurricane Delta is back over the Gulf of Mexico after crossing the Yucatan Peninsula. The storm weakened before making landfall near Cancun, but debris littered the shoreline, boats were capsized and trees toppled. Also, Derek… Continue watching
Aug 19 Apple is first U.S. company to be valued at $2 trillion By Associated Press Apple is the first U.S. company to boast a market value of $2 trillion, just two years after it became the first to reach $1 trillion. Continue reading
Jul 29 Watch 6:12 House lawmakers grill tech CEOs over possible anti-competitive practices By Amna Nawaz Leaders of four tech giants testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday, with lawmakers grilling them about whether they are too dominant. The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google appeared by video at a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on… Continue watching
Jul 29 Watch 9:50 Is U.S. regulatory framework capable of reining in big tech companies? The CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google encountered intense scrutiny from House lawmakers on Wednesday, particularly over whether they leverage unfair business practices to prevent their competition from succeeding. Is American antitrust law sufficient to handle the rapidly changing… Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch 6:38 News Wrap: Final stage of COVID-19 vaccine trial begins In our news wrap Monday, final-stage trials got underway in the biggest COVID-19 study so far. The first of 30,000 volunteers received initial dosages of a vaccine candidate developed by the National Institutes of Health and drugmaker Moderna in record… Continue watching
Jun 19 Google loses appeal against $56 million fine in France By Associated Press Google was first slapped with the fine in January 2019, the first penalty for a U.S. tech giant under new European data privacy rules that took effect in 2018. Continue reading
May 19 Google says it won’t build AI tools for oil and gas drillers By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Google says it will no longer build custom artificial intelligence tools for speeding up oil and gas extraction, separating itself from cloud computing rivals Microsoft and Amazon. Continue reading
Apr 27 Digital ad downturn may complicate things for tech giants By Michael Liedtke, Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press Demand for digital advertising is shriveling after a decade of explosive growth amid the pandemic-fueled downturn. Continue reading
Apr 12 WATCH: Can my phone tell if I’ve been near someone with COVID-19? By Hari Sreenivasan One of the ways to decrease the spread of COVID-19 is through contact tracing, meaning once someone tests positive, finding everyone that individual has come into contact with and warning them. Continue reading
Mar 06 Spanish court says man’s acquittal must show first in Google search By Associated Press The National Court said that freedom of expression took precedence over personal data protection in this case. But it said that given the circumstances the person's acquittal was important too. Continue reading