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Technology Expected To Help Drivers In Arizona Dust Storms

With Arizona’s monsoon season quickly approaching, state transportation planners intend to begin installing a new long-range dust-detection system on Interstate 10.

Georgia City Drives Electric Cars To Global Sustainability

A Georgia city is trying to reduce its contribution to global warming by outfitting city workers with electric cars.

50 Years Later, The Moon Is Still Great For Business

Fifty years after humans first visited, businesses are still trying to make a buck off the moon.

Facebook To Help French Police Identify Hate Speech Suspects

Facebook is agreeing to help French police identify hate speech suspects, in what the French government is celebrating as a global first.

Robot System Puts Long-Distance Students Inside Classrooms

A southeast Nebraska community college is using robots to put long-distance students inside the classrooms.

Laurene Jobs & Leonardo Dicaprio Helps Create New Environmental Alliance

Leonardo DiCaprio is joining with billionaire investors and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth to create a new nonprofit environmental powerhouse charged with tackling climate change and the loss of biodiversity.

Germany Fines Facebook $2.3 Million Under Hate Speech Law

German authorities said that they have imposed a 2 million-euro ($2.3 million) fine on Facebook under a law designed to combat hate speech.

Louisiana Sheriff's Office Starts Passing Out Smart Devices

A Louisiana sheriff’s office has started giving deputies a new handheld mobile policing device intended to ease many of their day-to-day duties and streamline technology tools such as surveillance videos and GPS data.

Sec Seeks Contempt Charges Against Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Stock market regulators are asking a federal court to hold Tesla CEO Elon Musk in contempt for violating an agreement requiring him to have his tweets about key company information reviewed for potentially misleading claims.

AT&T's Time Warner Takeover Has Already Reshaped Media World

A federal appeals court upheld AT&T’s $81 billion takeover of Time Warner, approving one of the biggest media deals on record in the face of opposition from the Trump administration.

Google Seeks Tax Breaks For $600M Data Center In Minnesota

Google’s plan to build a $600 million wind powered data center in central Minnesota could hinge on the tech giant’s request for officials to waive 20 years’ worth of future taxes.

Teen Video App Musical.Ly Agrees To FTC Fine

The operator of a video-sharing app popular with teenagers is agreeing to pay $5.7 million to settle federal allegations it illegally collected personal information from children.

Death Of British Youtuber Raises Fears Over E-Scooter Safety

The death of a British YouTuber in an Electric Scooter accident has raised concerns about the safety of the increasingly popular vehicles.

‘Game Of Thrones' Reigns With Record 32 Emmy Nominations

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” slashed its way to a record-setting 32 Emmy nominations for its eighth and final season, leading HBO back to dominance over Netflix, the streaming service that bumped it last year from atop the increasingly crowded television heap.

Apple Says It's Fixing Bug In Walkie Talkie App

Apple says it’s fixing a security flaw affecting the Walkie Talkie app on Apple Watch.

Instagram Expands Hiding ‘Likes' To Make You Happier

Instagram is expanding a test to hide how many “likes” people’s posts receive as it tries to combat criticism that such counts hurt mental health and make people feel bad when comparing themselves to others.

Is ‘Big Tech' Too Big? A Look At Growing Antitrust Scrutiny

Is Big Tech headed for a big breakup?

Uber And Airbnb: How The 'Sharing Economy Is Transforming Travel

These days, when you want to quickly travel from one place to another but lack your own car, there’s a good chance that you opt not to hail a yellow taxicab, but instead to call upon the services of a regular driver through the Uber app on your iPhone.

US Attorney General Says Encryption Creates Security Risk

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps are putting American security at risk.

‘Lion King' Returns But It's Harder To Feel The Love

Life moves in a circle, “The Lion King” tells us, and, increasingly, so does studio moviemaking.

Food Delivery And The 'Sharing Economy'

Just last week, we wrote about how what has been widely termed the ‘sharing economy’ – the distinctly Millennial movement of ‘sharing’ rather than necessarily ‘owning’ seemingly anything and everything, and drawing upon technology in the hand to make this possible – has made itself felt in how we travel, with Uber and Airbnb the obvious market leaders.

French Wine Vs US Tech Prowess: New Trump-Macron Standoff

France is pushing ahead with a landmark tax on tech companies like Google and Facebook despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs on French wine.

Twitter Reports Strong User Growth

Twitter reported surprisingly strong second-quarter user numbers and revenue, as it works to make the platform more user-friendly and eliminate robotic and fake accounts on its platform.

Uber Lays Off 400 Employees From Global Marketing Team

Uber is laying off 400 employees in marketing, about a quarter of the marketing team’s global workforce of 1,200 people.

One Hack, 106 Million People: Capital One Ensnared By Breach

A hacker accessed the personal information of 106 million Capital One credit card holders or credit card applicants in the U.S. and Canada, in the latest massive data breach at a large company.

What T-Mobile Takeover Of Sprint Means For You

U.S. antitrust regulators have cleared T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion takeovers of rival Sprint, leaving just three major cellphone companies, while creating a smaller competitor in satellite-TV company Dish.

Former Georgia Grocery Store Transformed Into Air Force Lab

A former grocery store in Middle Georgia is now serving high-tech aircraft manufacturing for the military.

Rhode Island Company Gets Grant For Wind Turbine Technology

A Rhode Island company has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant for its work to improve the aerodynamic performance of wind turbines.

Disney Results Miss As Fox Studio Business Underwhelm

Disney is feeling some pain from its biggest transformation in decades as its acquisition of Fox’s entertainment businesses contributed to a 39% drop in earnings.

Streaming Music May Make Cases Like Katy Perry's More Common

To show that Katy Perry and the team that wrote her 2013 hit “Dark Horse” may have heard his song and stole from it, Christian rapper Marcus Gray’s primary evidence was that his 2009 song, “Joyful Noise” had played in the millions on YouTube and Spotify.