A group of WeChat users filed a lawsuit late Friday against the Trump administration’s executive order barring the popular app, calling the prohibition unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in San Francisco, was brought by the US WeChat Alliance Group, a nonprofit group not affiliated with the app’s owner. President Donald Trump signed …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Airbnb on Thursday introduced a global party ban that prohibits parties and event of all types at its listings worldwide and caps house occupancy at 16 people. The move, which Airbnb said aims to address continued public health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic, …
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Google on Thursday said it will give people more information on wildfires when they search for them on the tech giant’s home page and maps app, an update that comes as California and Colorado battles blazes raging across their states. The company is adding maps that outline the boundaries of a wildfire, as well as any road closures in the …
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Four brothers from New York state were arrested and charged by federal authorities Wednesday in an alleged scheme to overcharge Amazon for wholesale orders and pocket $19 million in the process. From 2017 to 2019, the brothers allegedly ran a wholesale business that exploited Amazon’s vendor systems to send the e-commerce giant significantly more stuff than it agreed to buy …
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TikTok, known for short videos of people lip-syncing and dancing to their favorite songs, is grappling with a problem familiar to other social networks: hate speech. On Thursday, TikTok said it removed more than 380,000 videos in the US this year for violating its rules against hate speech. The company also banned more than 1,300 accounts for hateful content or …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Just two years ago, Wall Street investors pushed Apple to a trillion-dollar market capitalization, making it the most valuable tech company in the world. Now, even in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the market says Apple is worth twice as much. At around 7:53 …
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The peak for e-commerce sales during the pandemic has passed, but we’re still buying a whole lot more stuff online in 2020. In some cases, the latest stats suggest many of us may decide we never want to return to certain kinds of stores, like electronics retailers or health and beauty shops. The coronavirus outbreak has also resulted in a …
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Amazon abandoned its plans to build a 25,000-worker campus in Queens, New York, in early 2019, but it hasn’t given up on the Big Apple. On Tuesday, the e-commerce company announced another round of hiring across six of its tech hubs in the US, with the majority — 2,000 jobs — coming to New York City. Earlier this year, Amazon …
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Fortnite developer Epic Games is suing Apple and Google after both pulled Epic’s hit game from their app stores over direct-payment disputes. As of right now, neither are allowing users to download and install Fortnite on phones through their digital marketplaces. At the heart of the debate is whether Epic has the right to include a direct-payments service in its Fortnite app, …
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Apple is preparing to launch subscription bundles that bring together its digital services like Apple Music, Apple TV Plus and Apple Arcade, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The bundles, dubbed “Apple One,” could debut as early as October and will let people subscribe to multiple services at a single monthly price, according to Bloomberg. There will reportedly be different tiers of bundles, with the …
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