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By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business For many gig workers, their vehicles are how they make a living. And as independent contractors, they’re solely responsible for keeping them clean, running and full of gas. In recent weeks, the latter part has gotten much more burdensome. In response to soaring gas prices, Uber and Lyft recently

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Facebook and YouTube said Wednesday that they removed uploads of a deepfake video of Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky that purported to show him yielding to Russia. The deepfake spread widely online Wednesday, as noticed earlier by Vice’s Motherboard. In the video, which CNN Business has reviewed, Zelensky appears to stand

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Instagram is rolling out new tools that parents can use to help monitor and limit their kids’ usage of the photo-sharing app, months after disclosures from a Facebook whistleblower raised concerns about the platform’s impact on younger users. The tools, released Wednesday, offer parents the ability to see how much

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business Forget the stereo. Your next car could come with a virtual reality entertainment system. Holoride, a tech startup whose promise is “turning vehicles into moving theme parks,” recently announced at the SXSW festival in Austin that it is bringing VR headsets to select Audi SUVs and sedans this summer. With

By Anna Cooban, CNN Business Intel plans to invest up to €80 billion ($89 billion) over the next decade to build up Europe’s supply chain for semiconductor chips. The tech giant said on Tuesday that it will spend an initial €17 billion ($19 billion) to create two new chip factories in Germany. Construction on the

By Clare Duffy and Rachel Metz, CNN Business Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is unfolding online like no war in history, providing a real-time stream of information on social platforms like Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. But with that unique view into the conflict comes a flood of misinformation that’s especially hard to root out — effectively

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business NASA said Monday that NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will return from the ISS later this month aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft as previously planned. The space agency sought to reaffirm Monday that it’s still working closely with Russian space agency Rocosmos on the International Space Station, despite mounting geopolitical

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business Lyft on Monday said it plans to add a small fee on rides to help drivers deal with rising gas prices across the country, days after Uber laid out its plans to do the same. Lyft did not specify how much extra passengers will pay or when the surcharge

By Sara Ashley O’Brien, CNN Business More than two months after Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on four of 11 charges in her criminal fraud case, the trial of her ex-boyfriend and second-in-command at the failed blood testing company is set to begin. Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, who served as Theranos’

By Brian Fung, CNN Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, issued a reminder on Sunday that it prohibits calls on its platforms for the assassination of high-ranking world leaders, following intense scrutiny of the company’s decision last week to relax hate speech policies in Ukraine. In an internal post to employees, Meta President