Technology

ExxonMobil is suing investors who want faster climate action

6:45pm February 29, 2024

by Michael Copley

The oil and gas giant is suing investor groups that want it to slash climate pollution. Interest groups on both sides of the case say it could lead to more lawsuits against activist investors.

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Apple ends its decade-long secret effort to build an electric car

4:54pm February 28, 2024

by Bobby Allyn

Apple is pulling the plug on its secretive electric, self-driving car project, according to multiple reports. Apple worked on EVs for a decade, but never released a car.

What should you do if your phone gets wet? Don't put it in a bag of rice

10:42am February 28, 2024

Apple support says pieces of rice may get into crevices of the phone. Instead, it suggests, shake out the liquid and let the phone dry out in a place with some airflow for an entire day in some cases.

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The gate to a large property in Waimea. Median home prices in the area are up 87% from pre-pandemic prices.

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A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

9:37am February 28, 2024

by Dara Kerr

A mystery has been brewing in a small ranching town on Hawaii's Big Island. Word has it that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff bought the land, stirring worries about what he plans to do with it.

After seeing OpenAI's Sora, Tyler Perry says jobs are going to be lost

5:18am February 28, 2024

The text-to-video model Sora stunned observers with its cinematic video outputs. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Alex Weprin of The Hollywood Reporter about why the entertainment industry is nervous.

Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities were tricked into calling for the ouster of Moldova's president through videos requested on the Cameo app that were edited and posted on TikTok.

Cameo is being used for political propaganda — by tricking the stars involved

1:10pm February 27, 2024

by Shannon Bond

Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities were tricked into calling for the ouster of Moldova's president. It's the latest example of the Cameo app being used for an apparent political propaganda operation.

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Politics & Government

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas and Florida social media laws

10:37pm February 26, 2024

by Carrie Johnson

These cases raise a critical question for the First Amendment and the future of social media: whether states can force the platforms to carry content they find hateful or objectionable.

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Kara Swisher attends Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference on Sept. 6, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Arts

Kara Swisher is still drawn to tech despite her disappointments with the industry

8:13am February 26, 2024

by Steve Inskeep

Writer and podcaster Kara Swisher wrote her memoir, Burn Book, about her disillusionment with many tech moguls. It recounts more than three decades covering the tech industry.

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A side-by-side comparison between Sandra Young (left) and an image rendered in 2021 using DNA technology (right.)

National

Decades-old missing person case solved after relative uploads DNA to genealogy site

7:57pm February 25, 2024

by Juliana Kim

Sandra Young was between 16 and 18 years old when she went missing in the late 1960s. Police in Oregon say an upload to the genealogy database GEDMatch helped them identify her remains.

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Why call to get the time and weather when there are apps?

5:50pm February 25, 2024

by Tana Weingartner

Phone lines that gave callers the time and weather forecast were popular for decades. Even with so many weather apps available today, those call lines still exist, and get thousands of calls per day.

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