Technology

I will never forget the worst holiday gifts I have received over the years. Among them: A tech-accessory holder that lives between couch cushions. Countless Best Buy gift cards I never used. (More precisely, they were a bonus for Best Buy shareholders.) And the Chopula, an oddly shaped spatula designed to flip and chop food. […]

A man arrested in Hawaii wants a detention hearing in Utah, where’s he accused of sending hundreds of unwanted service providers and others to a home, including plumbers and prostitutes November 28, 2019, 12:37 AM 2 min read The Latest on a Hawaii man accused of sending hundreds of unwanted service providers and others to

The biggest evolution is how stories move through the reporting and editing process. That cycle used to be: Reporter reports and writes. Editors edit. And voilà! It’s published in print and online. But now baked into that process is a layer of sophisticated digital thinking: What story form should we use? What headline might best

Backed by Mormon church, Utah set to become 19th state banning ‘conversion therapy’ used to try to change peoples’ sexual orientation or gender identity By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press November 27, 2019, 10:25 PM 5 min read Utah is on its way to becoming the 19th state to ban the discredited practice of conversion therapy

Twitter announced Wednesday that it will pause its plan to purge inactive accounts amid fears that deceased users would have their pages erased. In a statement, the social media giant noted that the initiative only affects the European Union for now, and clarified that it “always had an inactive account policy but we haven’t enforced

I discovered the videos in January. One of the first I saw was posted by the irreverent online car magazine Jalopnik. “Dangerous Idiot Sleeps While Driving His Tesla on Autopilot,” read the headline. The cellphone-captured footage did, as promised, appear to show a man snoozing in the driver’s seat of a Tesla as it zipped

The European Space Agency is asking its 22 member states for more money to be able to carry out ambitious new missions and keep up with growing competition from the private sector November 27, 2019, 8:18 PM 1 min read The European Space Agency is asking its 22 member states for more money to be

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it had ended an investigation into possible coordination among AT&T, Verizon and a standards-setting organization to make it more difficult for people to switch wireless carriers. The agency said the groups had agreed to change their practices, reducing competition concerns. In its investigation, which began two years

Harvard University has settled a lawsuit alleging that it failed to provide captioning for its online courses, podcasts and other educational programs By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer November 27, 2019, 5:52 PM 1 min read Harvard University has settled a federal lawsuit alleging that it failed to provide captioning for its online courses, podcasts

After I signed up for my insurance plan, I got an email with a link to a “wellness program” that, if I traded some health data — such as steps from a pedometer or smartwatch exercise data — could earn me a small monthly payout and some gift cards. But the second I logged in,