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DISCORD FORCES MEMBERS TO CHANGE USERNAMES, DISCORD ERUPTS

The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames

FACEBOOK HAS 3 BILLION USERS, MANY OF THEM ARE OLD

Facebook says it is not dead. Facebook also wants you to know that it is not just for \"old people, as young people have been saying for years

IN MAJOR CLIMATE STEP EPA PROPOSES 1ST LIMITS ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM POWER PLANTS

The Biden administration proposed new limits Thursday on greenhouse gas emissions from coaland gas-fired power plants, its most ambitious effort yet to roll back planet-warming pollution from the nation's second-largest contributor to climate change

GOOGLE IS GIVING ITS DOMINANT SEARCH ENGINE AN ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE MAKEOVER

Google this week disclosed plans to infuse its dominant search engine with more advanced artificial-intelligence technology, a drive that's in response to one of the biggest threats to its long-established position as the internet's main gateway

AMAZON TO RECEIVE $1 BILLION IN TAX BREAKS IN EASTERN OREGON FOR NEW DATA CENTERS

Officials in a remote northeastern Oregon county have voted to give tax breaks worth an estimated $1 billion to Amazon for five more data centers there

MASS EVENT WILL LET HACKERS TEST LIMITS OF AI TECHNOLOGY

No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started \"jailbreaking\" the artificial intelligence chatbot - trying to override its safeguards so it could blurt out something unhinged or obscene

MONEY: AUDIT YOUR CREDIT CARDS FOR GREATER SAVINGS

Credit card rewards help our family save money on groceries, gas and other necessities

LYFT'S NEW CEO TACKLES A JOB REQUIRING SOME HEAVY LIFTING

Even before he joined Lyft's board in 2021, David Risher had taken hundreds of trips as a passenger so he felt like he knew a lot about the ride-hailing service

APPLE, GOOGLE PARTNER TO COMBAT CREEPY TRACKING TACTICS

Apple and Google are teaming up to thwart unwanted tracking through Bluetooth devices that were created to help people find lost keys, keep tabs on luggage or to locate other things that have a tendency to be misplaced or lost

GENESIS G80 ELECTRIFIED VS.BMW 14 M50

It seems like there’s a new electric luxury SUV introduced every couple of months. But if you’re seeking old-school opulence, a luxury sedan might be more your speed

'GODFATHER OF AI' LEAVES GOOGLE, WARNS OF TECH'S DANGERS

Sounding alarms about artificial intelligence has become a popular pastime in the ChatGPT era, taken up by high-profile figures as varied as industrialist Elon Musk, leftist intellectual Noam Chomsky and the 99-year-old retired statesman Henry Kissinger

TECH-ROOTED GROUPS SEEK TO SHAKE UP SAN FRANCISCO POLITICS

While the organizations differ in their priorities, they all say a small group of power brokers, many of them progressives, have prevented the city from solving some of its most pressing issues. The groups are highlighting fissures among Democrats in this liberal stronghold that has struggled to rebound from the pandemic

MacBook HOW THE PORTABLE LINE EARNED THE CENTER STAGE OF APPLE

One of Apple's most iconic products that has transformed the company's fortunes is the MacBook

APPLE TV+'S 'SILO' IS A LOOK AT A FUTURE OF LIFE UNDERGROUND

Dystopian storytelling goes underground this month with the arrival of Apple TV+'s \"Silo,\" a gripping, ambitious tale of Earth's last population living far below the surface

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL IN 'GUARDIANS 3

When Peter \"Star-Lord\" Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone's \"Come and Get Your Love\" in the first \"Guardians of the Galaxy,\" it would have been hard to imagine that James Gunn's space opera would ultimately lead to something as sincere, poignant and kinda cornball as the trilogyending \"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

SHOPIFY NARROWING ITS AMBITION, SELLS DELIVERR, CUTS STAFF

Shopify, the e-commerce company viewed as a growing competitor to Amazon, is selling the two biggest pieces of its fulfillment network and abandoning its logistics ambitions

BAN SOCIAL MEDIA FOR KIDS? FED-UP PARENTS IN SENATE SAY YES

Sen. Katie Britt says she hears about it constantly when she is at home in Alabama - at school track meets, basketball tournaments and on her regular morning walks with friends. And when she was running for the Senate last year, Britt says, \"parent after parent\" came up to her wanting to discuss the way social media was harming their kids

HATE PASSWORDS? YOU'RE IN LUCK - GOOGLE IS SIDELINING THEM

Good news for all the Google has taken a big step toward making them an afterthought by adding \"passkeys\" as a more straightforward and secure way to log into its services Here's what you need to know: password-haters out there

THE LAST OF US, WII SPORTS ENTERING VIDEO GAME HALL OF FAME

The first commercial video game and the first one marketed to girls are headed to the World Video Game Hall of Fame, alongside a postapocalyptic nail-biter and a system that made gamers out of grandparents

Q&A: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on Shepherding ChatGPT

OpenAI was building a reputation in the artificial intelligence field but wasn’t a household name when Mira Murati joined the nonprofit research lab in 2018.

CLIMATE SOLUTION: GREEN HYDROGEN COMPANY OHMIUM RAISES $250M

In what could prove a milestone for an industry that hopes to help address climate change, the Silicon Valley company Ohmium announced Wednesday it has raised $250 million to increase production of machines that can make clean hydrogen and displace fossil fuels.

BIG TECH CRACKDOWN LOOMS AS EU, UK READY NEW RULES

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are facing rising pressure from European authorities as London and Brussels advanced new rules this week to curb the power of digital companies.

UK BLOCKS MICROSOFT-ACTIVISION GAMING DEAL, BIGGEST IN TECH

British antitrust regulators this week blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard, thwarting the biggest tech deal in history over worries that it would stifle competition for popular titles like Call of Duty in the fast-growing cloud gaming market.

MONEY: HOW TO BOLSTER YOUR FINANCIAL CONFIDENCE

Melinda Perez, a financial educator, still remembers the first time she felt financially confident. She had recently started investing money outside of her employer-sponsored retirement account because she was finally earning more than she spent. “It was exciting because for once, I had what felt like extra money,” recalls Perez, who lives in San Antonio, Texas.

LITTLE RICHARD BIOPIC CELEBRATES A ROCK PIONEER

The king of rock ‘n’ roll didn’t die at Graceland in 1977. He died just three years ago in Tullahoma, Tennessee, and he never really got the crown he deserved.

GOOGLE'S PERSISTENT AD SLUMP WEIGHS ON ALPHABET'S 1Q RESULTS

Google’s advertising malaise persisted during the first quarter while the internet company also grapples with advancements in artificial intelligence technology that threaten to undercut its dominant search engine.

US OFFICIALS SEEK TO CRACK DOWN ON HARMFUL AI PRODUCTS

The U.S. government will “not hesitate to crack down” on harmful business practices involving artificial intelligence, the head of the Federal Trade Commission warned in a message partly directed at the developers of widely-used AI tools such as ChatGPT.

NO ONE IS DRIVING THIS TAXI. WHAT POSSIBLY COULD GO WRONG?

I won’t forget the first time I took a ride in a car without anyone sitting in the driver’s seat.

MICROSOFT REPORTS BOOST IN PROFITS, REVENUE, AS IT PUSHE'S AI

Microsoft reported a 9% increase in profit for the January-March quarter, as growth in cloud computing sales helped bolster its plans to expand its use of artificial intelligence.

APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS APPLE'S CONTROL OF IPHONE APP STORE

An appeals court upheld Apple’s exclusive control over the distribution of iPhone apps, rejecting the latest attempt to force one of the world’s most powerful companies to dismantle the digital walls protecting its most lucrative product.