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The two Southern California desert communities rocked by last week’s powerful earthquakes may have sustained as little damage as they did because they have no tall buildings and many of the homes in one are fairly new and were built to stricter earthquake standards. California’s Seismic Safety Commission Chairman Michael Gardner said during the agency’s […]

Julie Sweet will become the new chief executive of Accenture, the consulting firm announced on Thursday, adding another female leader to the senior-most ranks of the corporate world. With Ms. Sweet’s appointment, 27 women will be leading companies in the S&P 500. That figure is up slightly from a year ago, but still means that

“Miss us?” Twitter tweeted from its official account as the Great Twitter Outage wound down. Interested in Twitter? Add Twitter as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Twitter news, video, and analysis from ABC News. We did, apparently. For nearly an hour Thursday, the service we use to keep up with

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has declined to bring election security bills to the Senate floor. That includes a bill introduced last May by Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California and 2020 presidential hopeful, that aimed to mandate new cybersecurity standards, including hand-marked paper ballots, for all federal elections. This week, a Texas

The Latest on President Donald Trump‘s conference on social media (all times local): 4:50 p.m. President Donald Trump says big tech companies must not be allowed to censor the voices of the American people on social media. Trump is speaking at a White House conference highlighting the president’s belief that the nation’s biggest social media

Pluribus learned the nuances of Texas Hold ‘Em by playing trillions of hands against itself. After each hand was done, it would evaluate each decision, determining whether a different choice would have produced a better result. Mr. Brown called this process “counterfactual regret minimization,” and compared it to the way humans learn the game. “One

Google said its contractors are able to listen to recordings of what people say to its artificial-intelligence system Google Assistant. The company acknowledged that humans can access those recordings after some of its Dutch language recordings were leaked. Google is investigating the breach. The recordings were obtained by Belgian broadcaster VRT NWS, which noted in

France has adopted a pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook on Thursday, despite U.S. threats of new tariffs on French imports. The final vote in favor of the tax in the French Senate on Thursday came hours after the Trump administration announced an investigation into the tax under the provision used

Amazon will provide technical training to about one-third of its U.S. workforce, both to address the need for more skilled workers and to better compete against rivals. Amazon and other companies have struggled to find technically qualified U.S. employees. It said Thursday that it will begin providing its workers with the skills to transition into

Amazon has increasingly turned to robots and automation technology to fetch products from the shelves of its warehouses to ship to customers. Now the company says it needs to help its workers adapt to the rapid change. The e-commerce giant on Thursday said it planned to spend $700 million to retrain a third of its