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Emerson Oligschlaeger and Maria Shilaos

Digital spring cleaning: is your personal information secure?

Braintrace's Aaron Sherman tells Maria where Utahns go wrong in issues of cybersecurity, and what steps they can take to clean up after themselves.
7 years ago
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2018, file photo, Evan Sharp, Pinterest co-founder and chief product office...
Seth Fiegerman, CNN Business

The anti-Facebook: Inside Pinterest’s slow and quiet rise

"The company is not flashy and doesn't try to generate a lot of buzz or press for every little thing it does," said Kamran Ansari, former head of corporate development at Pinterest. "It doesn't get some of the notoriety, but I think the term that comes to mind is: built to last." Pinterest's goal, he added, was "building a meaningful business that's going to be sustainable."
7 years ago
Scientists caught a record 17-foot python in the Florida Everglades (via CNN)...
Chandrika Narayan, CNN

Scientists just captured a record 17-foot-long python in Florida

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. But even by python standards, this one was colossal. Scientists caught a female python in the Florida Everglades that was more than 17 feet long, weighed 140 pounds and contained 73 developing eggs.
7 years ago
Shadow of the Japanese spacecraft takes a photo of its shadow on the asteroid Ryugu...
Colby Walker

Japanese spacecraft ‘bombs’ asteroid

Nearly 200 million miles away, on an asteroid, the size of a few city blocks, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says it successfully dropped a small bomb Friday morning in the hopes to
7 years ago
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Paul Nelson, Kelli Pierce and Colby Walker

Internet exploitation of children is on the rise

Utah investigators say the number of victims of online sexual exploitation is growing and the victims are getting a lot younger.
7 years ago
Burger King is testing out a meatless version of the Whopper....
Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business

Burger King is testing out an Impossible Whopper. This is why

Burger King has a plan to bring in new customers and encourage existing ones to buy more often: Vegetarian Whoppers. The burger chain announced on Monday that it is testing out Impossible Whoppers, made with plant-based patties from Impossible Foods, in 59 locations in and around St. Louis. If all goes well, Burger King will roll out the Impossible Whopper nationally.
7 years ago
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Nell Lewis, CNN Business

How 5G will change the future of farming

5G has the potential to disrupt a huge number of industries, including one of the world's oldest: Farming. Drones, driverless tractors, and connected cows, next-generation 5G networks is set to help farmers become more productive and keep their cows and crops happy all due to the blisteringly fast 5G network that can be 100 times faster than 4G, making communication between devices and servers much quicker.
7 years ago
Not all robocalls are fake or illegal: Pharmacies and utility companies, for example, use the techn...
Jackie Wattles, CNN Business

What you can do right now to stop robocalls

Billions of robocalls are vexing Americans — and it's not slowing down. Many of the unsolicited calls are from scammers pretending to be tax collectors, charities, or salespeople. Short of throwing your phone in the garbage, there's no way to avoid them altogether. But wireless providers and smartphone developers offer tools to filter out at least some unwanted calls.
7 years ago
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Associated Press

Facebook charged with housing discrimination by HUD

Facebook was charged for allegedly allowing landlords and real estate brokers to systematically exclude groups from seeing ads for houses and apartments.
7 years ago
Matternet CEO Andreas Raptopoulos walks next to an operator carrying a drone used for delivery of m...
JONATHAN DREW Associated Press

Hospital using drones to fly blood samples between buildings

A pioneering use of drones to fly blood samples across a North Carolina hospital campus launched Tuesday in the latest move to expand their roles in business and health care.
7 years ago
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were set to make history as the first all-female cr...
Colby Walker

NASA’s first all-female spacewalk is delayed because there aren’t enough spacesuits that fit

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were set to make history as the first crew to have an all-female spacewalk at the International Space Station, but it was announced on Monday that the historic spacewalk will be delayed because of spacesuit issues.
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Julia Horowitz, CNN Business

Tim Cook says Apple Card is a game changer. Experts are not so sure

Apple CEO Tim Cook said Monday that the tech company's new credit card would be "the most significant change in the credit card experience in 50 years." But not everyone's buying it.
7 years ago
Peter Stern, vice president of Services at Apple, speaks during a company product launch event on M...
Heather Kelly, CNN Business

Apple event 2019: Everything announced at Apple’s big March presentation

Apple is making movies, TV shows and ... a credit card. CEO Tim Cook and a roster of big-name celebrities, including Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, announced the company's much-anticipated entrance into the crowded video-streaming market at a press event Monday afternoon inside the underground Steve Jobs theater at its Cupertino, California, headquarters.
7 years ago
In the face of more frustrating delays with the rocket Boeing is building for NASA, the space agenc...
Jackie Wattles, CNN Business

NASA considers sidelining its Boeing-built rocket for an upcoming Moon mission

NASA is expected to announce this week whether it will sideline its long-overdue rocket, Space Launch System, and instead use commercial launch vehicles. The space agency contracted Boeing in 2012 to build SLS's core components this is called into question due to the rocket facing new hangups that threatened to upend plans to launch its Orion spacecraft on an uncrewed test flight around the Moon in mid-2020.
7 years ago
FILE - This  April 26, 2017 photo shows the Twitter app on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter ...
Oliver Darcy, CNN Business

How Twitter’s algorithm is amplifying extreme political rhetoric

We are constantly working to bring people who use Twitter relevant content, and one way we do that is by looking at content and accounts followed by people you follow. This does mean that you might sometimes see accounts or content you don't agree with, but our efforts should not amplify behavior that is meant to intimidate, harass, or threaten others.
7 years ago
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Colby Walker

Who holds the crown for the most subscribers on YouTube?

YouTube icon PewDiePie is close to losing his crown as having the most YouTube subscribers. India media company T-Series is catching up.
7 years ago
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Associated Press

Disney closes $71B deal for Fox entertainment assets

Disney has closed its $71B acquisition of the Fox entertainment business, putting “Cinderella,” ″The Simpsons,” and "Star Wars" under one corporate roof.
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Associated Press

Why Facebook didn’t block live New Zealand shooting video

Why did Facebook air live video of the New Zealand mosque shooting for 17 minutes? Didn’t anyone alert the company while it was happening? Facebook says no.
7 years ago
Google is launching a streaming service just for video games that will work on any TV with Chromeca...
Heather Kelly, CNN Business

WATCH: Google gets gaming launching Stadia video game streaming service

Google is not making a gaming console. It is, however, launching a streaming service just for video games that will work on any TV with Chromecast, computers running a Chrome browser, and Google's Pixel devices. You don't download the games to your devices, just play them over any Wi-Fi connection.
7 years ago
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KELVIN CHAN and RAF CASERT Associated Press

EU fines Google $1.7 billion for abusing online ads market

European Union regulators have fined Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for abusing its dominant role in online advertising, the third big antitrust penalty they've given the internet giant since 2017.
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Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN

Sugary drinks linked to higher risk of premature death, especially for women, study says

Compared with women who had sugary beverages less than once per month, those who had more than two servings a day -- defined as a standard glass, bottle or can -- had a 63% increased risk of premature death, according to a study published Monday in the journal Circulation. Men who did the same had a 29% increase in risk.
7 years ago
FILE - In this handout provided by NASA, Expedition 58 Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA waves d...
Christina Maxouris, CNN

NASA head says first person on Mars is ‘likely to be a woman’

Forget everything you've learned about men and Mars. Chances are the first person to land on the red planet will be a woman, the head of NASA said recently.
7 years ago
LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 24:  Sir Tim Berners-Lee  inventor of the World Wide Web arrives at Gui...
Rob Picheta, CNN

Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee calls for ‘fight’ against hacking and abuse on its 30th birthday

The inventor of the world wide web has called for global efforts to tackle state-sponsored hacking, criminal behavior and abusive language on the internet, in an open letter marking the 30th anniversary of the revolutionary technology.
7 years ago
In this image taken from NASA Television, SpaceX's swanky new crew capsule, center, takes off after...
MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

SpaceX crew capsule departs station for Atlantic splashdown

SpaceX's swanky new crew capsule has undocked from the International Space Station and is headed toward an old-fashioned splashdown.
7 years ago