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The IRS website will soon require facial recognition to log in to your account

January 27, 2022 5:11 pm CNN Newsource

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business The next time you try to log in to the Internal Revenue Service’s website you’ll be urged to use…

Apple posted record holiday quarter sales despite supply constraints

January 27, 2022 2:57 pm CNN Newsource

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple posted record revenue during the all-important holiday quarter even as it continued to grapple with…

Microsoft makes a big bet that it can fix Activision Blizzard’s troubled culture

January 27, 2022 5:49 am CNN Newsource

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Microsoft’s nearly $70 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard could make it a leader in gaming. But…

Forget Zoom school. For some students, class is in session in VR

January 27, 2022 5:21 am CNN Newsource

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Jeremy Bailenson has studied virtual reality for decades. But it wasn’t until last year that the Stanford…

Apple is back on top in smartphone sales worldwide after a record win in China

January 27, 2022 12:35 am CNN Newsource

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Apple has once again become the top-selling smartphone brand in top market China, along with the rest of the world.…

Amazon faces possible union election at New York warehouse

January 26, 2022 4:38 pm CNN Newsource

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island have shown enough support to hold a union election, the…

Gates Foundation adds board members following Bill and Melinda’s divorce

January 26, 2022 2:23 pm CNN Newsource

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation named four new members to its board of trustees on Wednesday, marking the first…

Wordle-spoiling bot taken down by Twitter

January 26, 2022 6:36 am CNN Newsource

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Twitter has suspended an annoying bot that automatically responded with the next day’s solution when people…

China pledges ‘purification’ of the internet ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Lunar New Year

January 25, 2022 11:23 pm CNN Newsource

By Laura He, CNN Business China’s top cybersecurity regulator is vowing to crack down on “illegal” online content as part of a…

Tim Cook allegedly stalked by woman who trespassed and sent photos of a loaded gun

January 25, 2022 3:17 pm CNN Newsource

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Apple has been granted a restraining order against a woman who allegedly threatened, harassed and stalked CEO…

Some manufacturers have less than 5 days’ supply of computer chips, Commerce Department warns

January 25, 2022 2:08 pm CNN Newsource

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Some manufacturers that rely on semiconductors are down to less than five days’ worth of inventory, according to a…

Four attorneys general sue Google for ‘deceptive’ location tracking

January 24, 2022 10:29 am CNN Newsource

By Brian Fung, CNN Business A bipartisan group of attorneys general sued Google on Monday, alleging that the technology giant has used “dark…

Meta is building an AI supercomputer

January 24, 2022 9:24 am CNN Newsource

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Facebook has long bet that artificial intelligence can help it with the difficult task of moderating posts from its…

Australia says WeChat has removed the account of its Prime Minister

January 24, 2022 3:11 am CNN Newsource

By Angus Watson, Jill Disis and Yong Xiong, CNN Business Australia has accused WeChat of taking down Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s account…

Ireland’s data centers are an economic lifeline. Environmentalists say they’re wrecking the planet

January 23, 2022 12:15 am CNN Newsource

By Kara Fox, CNN In the west of Ireland lies a medieval market town, its roots steeped in legend. Beyond the labyrinth of narrow streets of the…

The 5G-airlines crisis was mostly averted. Here’s what happened – and what we still don’t know

January 22, 2022 7:37 am CNN Newsource

By Jackie Wattles and Pete Muntean, CNN Potentially abysmal air travel interruptions were narrowly avoided this week when wireless carriers made a…

How to access AT&T and Verizon’s new super fast 5G networks

January 22, 2022 5:43 am CNN Newsource

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business Many mobile device users in the United States now have access to blazing-fast internet speeds stemming from…

A group of Activision Blizzard employees is demanding union recognition

January 21, 2022 12:26 pm CNN Newsource

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Workers at an Activision Blizzard-owned game studio announced plans on Friday to form what would be the…

IBM is selling off its Watson Health assets

January 21, 2022 11:29 am CNN Newsource

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business IBM said Friday that it will sell off the healthcare data and analytics assets housed under its Watson Health unit to…

Twitter is rolling out verified NFT profile pictures

January 20, 2022 2:45 pm CNN Newsource

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Twitter on Thursday began rolling out a feature that will let some users set NFTs that they own as their profile picture…