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Workers demanding union rights plan to walk off the job in nationwide Strike for Black Lives

July 12, 2020 12:10 pm CNN

A coalition of Black advocacy groups and labor activists are organizing a nationwide strike to pressure corporations, such as McDonald’s,…

Swedish tech company Tobii releases $229 eye tracker that may improve gamers’ skills

July 12, 2020 11:51 am CNN

Eye-tracking technology has helped people with medical conditions like autism, traumatic brain injuries and ALS, or amyotropic lateral sclerosis,…

Get ready for an awful earnings season

July 12, 2020 9:50 am CNN

Major companies are about to tell investors how they fared during the second quarter as the coronavirus swept over America. And there’s no…

Businesses including Apple and General Motors ask Trump to keep DACA in place

July 11, 2020 6:21 pm CNN

A group of top business leaders asked US President Donald Trump in a letter on Saturday to keep a program that protects nearly 800,000 young…

Somebody paid a record $114,000 for a rare Super Mario Bros. video game

July 11, 2020 3:15 pm CNN

An anonymous buyer bid a record $114,000 for a rare, unopened copy of the classic video game Super Mario Bros. The game cartridge was originally…

Tucker Carlson’s top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum

July 11, 2020 3:06 pm CNN

Editor’s note: This article quotes racist, homophobic and sexist language, much of which has not been censored. The top writer for Fox News…

Disney Parks chief on reopening: ‘We are in a new normal’

July 11, 2020 10:59 am CNN

Walt Disney World reopens its gates on Saturday. But should it? Josh D’Amaro — the new chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products —…

‘Soda bombs’ and ‘pizza security’: The lessons of making a car for Domino’s

July 11, 2020 8:55 am CNN

In 2012, Domino’s enlisted the automaker Local Motors, where Nicholas de Peyer worked, to reinvent pizza delivery. He spent the next 18 months…

7 tips to make you a Slack power user

July 11, 2020 6:59 am CNN

For years, Slack has been popular among tech startups, media companies and retailers as a tool for employees to chat and collaborate. But as many…

Instagram and Facebook ban all content promoting conversion therapy

July 11, 2020 5:10 am CNN

Instagram and Facebook will ban any content that promotes conversion therapy, the social media platforms told CNN on Friday, after activists called…

US global media agency seeks to kick out international journalists

July 10, 2020 6:52 pm CNN

Efforts to clean house at the US Agency for Global Media continued this week as leadership indicated that international journalists who work for…

Elon Musk just became richer than Warren Buffett

July 10, 2020 5:49 pm CNN

Tesla CEO Elon Musk just zoomed past Warren Buffett on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index to become the world’s seventh wealthiest person.…

TikTok users panic as Trump admin considers banning app

July 10, 2020 5:05 pm CNN

Parker Pannell woke up on Thursday to a frantic call from a friend saying that views and likes on TikTok had suddenly reset to zero. The 16-year-old,…

Amazon tells employees to delete TikTok immediately—then takes it back

July 10, 2020 4:49 pm CNN

Amazon made waves on Friday by ordering employees to remove TikTok from their devices, only to announce hours later that the directive had been sent…

Facebook considers banning political ads in days before US election

July 10, 2020 4:14 pm CNN

Facebook is considering banning political advertising on its platform in the days leading up to the US presidential election in November, a person…

Tyson and other meat processors are reportedly speeding up plans for robot butchers

July 10, 2020 4:06 pm CNN

Tyson Foods and other meat processors that became early hotspots for the Covid-19 pandemic are reportedly accelerating plans to have robots replace…

Twitch pulls Black Lives Matter video after criticism that majority of streamers in it were White

July 10, 2020 3:37 pm CNN

Streaming platform Twitch found itself in hot water for the second time in a week after it posted a video that was intended to support the Black…

Muji files for bankruptcy

July 10, 2020 3:12 pm CNN

Trendy home-goods chain Muji has filed for bankruptcy, making it the latest in a string of retailers to do so as the coronavirus crisis decimates the…

Take that, Disney! Goldman Sachs is super bullish on Netflix

July 10, 2020 2:57 pm CNN

Netflix is no longer the only streaming game in town. But an analyst at Goldman Sachs still thinks Netflix is the king (and queen, thanks to season 6…

Ford pressured to stop selling police cars, but it won’t get out of the business

July 10, 2020 2:51 pm CNN

Ford CEO Jim Hackett rejected employees’ calls to get out of the police car business, saying the automaker can support the Black Lives Matter…