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  • FILE – Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Cybertruck at Tesla’s design studio Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, in Hawthorne, Calif. Musk has laid out some bold, if still vague, plans for transforming Twitter into a place of “maximum fun!” once he buys the social media platform for $44 billion and takes it private. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)Tech

    Elon Musk’s big plans for Twitter: What we know so far

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Air passengers navigate busy holiday travel crowds in Terminal 1 at O'Hare International Airport, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021 in Chicago. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

    Winter storms and COVID cancel more than 5,300 flights in the U.S. over the New Year’s weekend

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Dr. Frida Polli, co-founder and CEO Pymetrics, demonstrates AI technology used to assess job skills during an interview with The Associated Press at the Pymetrics headquarters, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Careers

    A new bill would limit employers’ use of A.I. hiring tools to recruit New York City applicants

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 29: In this photo illustration, the Facebook logo is displayed on the screen of an iPhone in front of a Meta logo on October 29, 2021 in Paris, France. On October 28, during the Facebook Connect virtual conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced the name change of Facebook, believing that the term Facebook was too closely linked to that of the platform of the same name, launched in 2004. It is now official, the Facebook company changes its name and becomes Meta. (Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)Tech

    Facebook is ending its controversial face recognition system, delete faceprints of more than 1 billion users

    By Matt O'Brien, Barbara Ortutay, and others
  • REDMOND, UNITED STATES &#8211; 2021/04/27: A logo marking the edge of the Microsoft corporate campus in Redmond, United States.<br /> The company announced its Q2 earnings on 27th Apr 2021. (Photo by Toby Scott/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Tech

    Targeting of Americans’ data ‘routine’, says Microsoft exec

    By Eric Tucker, Matt O'Brien, and others
  • ILLUSTRATION &#8211; 22 January 2021, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Mannheim: A woman is working in her apartment in front of a computer at a high desk.Tech

    Want a job? Employers say: Talk to the computer

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • In this April 14, 2021 image provided by Wing LLC., Girl Scouts Alice Goerlich, right, and Gracie Walker pose with a Wing delivery drone in Christiansburg, Va. The company is testing drone delivery of Girl Scout cookies in the area. (Sam Dean/ Wing LLC via AP)Tech

    One Virginia community is having Girl Scout cookies delivered to their doorstep by a drone

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • 26 March 2021, Bavaria, Munich: The Microsoft logo hangs on the facade of an office building in Parkstadt Schwabing, in the north of the Bavarian capital.Tech

    Microsoft wins $22 billion deal making headsets for U.S. Army

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • A person looks at a piece during a press preview on March 25, 2021 of the grand opening of Superchief Gallery NFT, a physical gallery dedicated exclusively to NFT (non-fungible tokens) artwork in New York. &#8211; The gallery opens with the &#8220;Season One Starter Pack&#8221; exhibition, featuring a daily rotation of art installations displayed on high resolution 4K screens. &#8211; RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE &#8211; MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION &#8211; TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE &#8211; MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION &#8211; TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE &#8211; MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION &#8211; TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Superchief Gallery NFT, a physical gallery dedicated exclusively to NFT (non-fungible tokens) artwork in New York. &#8211; The gallery opens with the &#8220;Season One Starter Pack&#8221; exhibition, featuring a daily rotation of art installations displayed on high resolution 4K screens. &#8211; RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE &#8211; MANDATORYInternational

    That moment when you realize, gulp, you just successfully bid $69 million for a piece of NFT art

    By Matt O'Brien, Kelvin Chan, and others
  • A Verkada Inc. security camera on the company&#8217;s headquarters in San Mateo, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.Tech

    U.S. charges ‘hacktivist’ for infiltrating video-camera startup Verkada

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Verkada Inc. security cameras on the company&#8217;s headquarters in San Mateo, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.Tech

    Security camera hack exposes dangers of mass surveillance

    By Matt O'Brien, Frank Bajak, and others
  • POLAND &#8211; 2021/02/19: In this photo illustration a Microsoft logo seen displayed on a smartphone with stock market values in the background.Tech

    Microsoft: China-based hackers used email flaw to target U.S. firms

    By Matt O'Brien and Bloomberg
  • POLAND &#8211; 2020/11/04: In this photo illustration a TikTok logo seen displayed on a smartphone.Tech

    TikTok asks court to intervene as Trump order looms

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • Facebook says it will crack down on Holocaust denial.Tech

    Facebook bans Holocaust denial

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press
  • FRANCE-US-ECONOMY-TECHNOLOGY-AMAZONTech

    As Robots Take Over Warehousing, Workers Pushed to Adapt

    By Matt O'Brien and The Associated Press