Travelers will soon face restrictions on how many portable chargers they can carry on a flight as airlines continue to try to reduce the risk of another lithium battery fire aboard their jets. Southwest Airlines announced Tuesday that starting April...
Airlines have warned that airfarepricescould continue to soar due to the war in Iran and rising oil prices, so travel experts suggest now is the best time to book summer flights and navigate any fare adjustments down the road. Amid the o...
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WASHINGTON -- Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced su...
Scarlett Johanssonis speaking out afterOpenAIannounced on Sunday that it would be pausing the use of an emotive voice on its newest version ofChatGPTthat sounded like the actress. In a statement from Johansson’s...
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Booking.com users have spoken of their anger at the company's failure to stop them falling victim to cyber-criminals. For at least a year, fraudsters have been able to infiltrate its app and trick users out of hundreds of pounds....
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Cathay Pacific Airways has fired three flight attendants after a complaint that they had discriminated against non-English speaking passengers. They were sacked after an audio clip of the cabin crew apparently mocking passengers went vira...
Facebook's owner, Meta, has been fined €1.2bn (£1bn) for mishandling people's data when transferring it between Europe and the United States. Issued by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), it is the largest fine imposed...
Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years in jail in Russia for charges linked to his criticism of the war in Ukraine. He was found guilty of treason, spreading "false" information about the Russian...
Donald Trump is the first US president to be indicted in criminal proceedings, which also happened as he is seeking the Republican nomination in 2024 The specific charge is not known, but the grand jury investigation centered on a $130,0...
Utah has become the first US state to require social media firms get parental consent for children to use their apps and verify users are at least 18. The governor said he signed the two sweeping measures to protect young people in the st...
Facebook users around the world have been waking up to find themselves locked out of their accounts for no apparent reason. The message many received reads: "Your Facebook account was disabled because it did not follow our C...
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The first game developer signed up to test Facebook's plan to put adverts into Oculus VR games has reversed course after a backlash from players. It comes days after Facebook announced it would place adverts inside players' heads...
Facebook Inc has suspended former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts for two years. He was barred indefinitely from both sites in January in the wake of posts he made on the US Capitol riots, but last mon...
It's becoming more likely that a key global temperature limit will be reached in one of the next five years. A major study says by 2025 there's a 40% chance of at least one year being 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial level....
For a few weeks this year, South Korean carmaker Hyundai was dusted with the Apple magic. Last month Hyundai let slip that it was in talks with the maker of the iPhone to co-operate on a car project, but this week it said&nb...