CNN – Social Media/Technology

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business For years, the most popular internet browsers have included options to search for and visit websites in “private” modes. Those options may now be viewed as vital tools for some in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise, as abortion-seekers look to avoid having their personal data used against them

By Rachel Metz and Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business This week, two of the most passionate communities online — gamers and cat lovers — collided with the release of a new video game that lets you play as an adorable orange tabby cat. “Stray“, created by indie French game company BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna

By Laura He, CNN Business One month ago, Li Jiaqi disappeared from the internet. The 30-year-old livestreamer, also known as Austin Li, was — until recently — one of China’s biggest internet celebrities, with 64 million followers on Taobao, an online shopping platform. He once sold 15,000 lipsticks within five minutes in a sales competition

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Snap’s rough year continues. Shares of Snapchat’s parent company tanked more than 25% in after-hours trading Thursday after it posted even worse sales growth results for the three months ended in June than it had expected. Snap last month warned investors that the economy had worsened faster than it expected,

By Catherine Thorbecke Amazon on Thursday said it has entered an agreement to acquire primary healthcare company One Medical in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $3.9 billion. One Medical is a membership-based primary care service that promises customers “24/7 access to virtual care.” The company operates in a dozen major US markets, according to

By Clare Duffy, CNN Business Facebook’s rumored redesign has arrived. Starting Thursday, the platform is splitting up its main “home” section into two tabs. The move is part of a push by Facebook to show users more entertaining, recommended content — to become what cofounder Mark Zuckerberg has called a “discovery engine” — as it

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Baidu has unveiled plans for an electric self-driving car with a removable steering wheel, marking another step forward in the fast-moving robotaxi race in China. The Chinese tech giant, the country’s answer to Google, revealed the Apollo RT6, its sixth-generation autonomous vehicle, at its annual flagship conference on Thursday. Baidu’s

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business Two astronauts — one European and one Russian — exited the airlock on the International Space Station for a spacewalk on Thursday, marking the first time in more than 20 years such a joint endeavor has taken place. Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency, and Russian

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Business Weeks after Daily Harvest announced the voluntary recall of its French Lentil and Leek Crumbles, the company said on Tuesday that it had identified the ingredient suspected to be causing the mysterious illness reported by hundreds of customers. “At this time, we have identified tara flour as the cause of

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business One of four passengers who joined SpaceX’s first-ever space tourism mission last year and who spent months training on the company’s spacecraft before taking a three-day trek to orbit is now working for Blue Origin, one of SpaceX’s top rivals. Chris Sembroski, an engineer who previously worked at yet another

By Brian Fung, CNN Amazon said Tuesday it has sued the administrators of more than 11,000 Facebook groups allegedly responsible for facilitating the purchase and sale of fake reviews on Amazon’s marketplace in seven countries. The group operators are accused of recruiting people to write fake or misleading product reviews in exchange for money or

By Brian Fung, CNN Business The Biden administration is pushing to fill hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity jobs in the United States as part of a bid to close a talent shortage US officials describe as both a national security challenge and an economic opportunity. On Tuesday, the administration announced a multi-agency plan to create

By Kara Scannell, CNN Business The US attorney’s office in Manhattan has opened a civil investigation into workplace safety at Amazon warehouses and possible “fraudulent” conduct to hide worker injuries from federal regulators, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office said. Investigators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Monday morning went to warehouses around