Southwest cancels another 4,800 flights as its reduced schedule continues
The airline's CEO says the company is hoping to be "back on track before next week." But until then, it's continuing on a reduced schedule.
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Apple, accused of supporting China's censorship, is now facing new criticism
Protesters say Apple has kept tools that help circumvent censorship in China off its App store inside the country. Now it has to contend with pressure from Chinese citizens who aren't happy about it.
A look at the year social media companies had
From Facebook's troubled pivot to the metaverse to Twitter's management chaos to industry-wide layoffs, social media companies had a rocky 2022.
Facebook parent Meta will pay $725M to settle a privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica
The proposed settlement is a result of revelations that the information of up to 87 million people may have been improperly shared with the data analytics firm that worked for political campaigns.
How life got pricier (and, yes, cheaper!) this year — in 7 charts
Boy, have we talked a lot about inflation. It affected every part of our lives (and the economy) in 2022. Here are some of its highest highs and lowest lows. (It wasn't all bad news!)
North Korea has hacked $1.2 billion in crypto and other assets for its economy
North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated $1.2 billion in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years, more than half of it this year alone, South Korea's spy agency says.
Why the proposed TikTok ban is more about politics than privacy, according to experts
Digital privacy experts are skeptical of proposed TikTok bans, saying they are more about geopolitical tension than the social media app.
Congress is about to ban TikTok from U.S. government phones
A ban on Chinese-owned TikTok for government devices is in a new spending bill. It will not affect most of the 100 million U.S. users of the app, but it is a major anti-TikTok escalation by the U.S.
Goodnight, sweet spacecraft: NASA's InSight lander may have just signed off from Mars
InSight's end has long been in sight, with NASA warning that it would likely be inoperative by the end of the year. The lander went quiet this weekend and shared a tweet it said might be its last.
An original model of E.T. is sold at auction for $2.56 million
The original mechatronic model of the alien from Steven Spielberg's 1982 classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial headlined a weekend auction of Hollywood artifacts.