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American Express, Twitter rise; Boston Beer, Intel fall
Stocks that traded heavily or had substantial price changes Friday: American Express, Twitter rise; Boston Beer, Intel fall
Marsquakes offer detailed look at red planet’s interior
A quake-measuring device on Mars is providing the first detailed look at the red planet's interior
GM using expanded Super Cruise on 6 vehicles next year
General Motors says it will feature its expanded Super Cruise hands-free driver-assisted technology on six vehicles next year
Judge tosses suit by Candace Owens over Facebook fact checks
A Delaware judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative political commentator Candace Owens against USA Today and another media organization over fact-checking coronavirus posts she made on Facebook
Twitter posts stronger-than-expected Q2 results, shares jump
Twitter has posted stronger-than-expected earnings for the second quarter
Numerous websites briefly go down in widespread outage
There has been a brief but widespread internet outage that took major websites down
Crafty cockatoos master dumpster diving and teach each other
Sulfur-crested cockatoos in Sydney have learned to open trash bins — and the technique is catching on like a hot dance move
UK man arrested in Spain, charged in US with Twitter hack
A British man has been charged in the United States in connection with a Twitter hack last summer that compromised the accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls
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Jeff Bezos blasts into space on own rocket: ‘Best day ever!’
Jeff Bezos has made it into space, riding his own company's rocket
Man convicted of killing driver during speeding livestream
A man has been convicted of vehicular homicide after prosecutors say he hit a car while driving around 120 mph (193 mph) during a Facebook livestream showing him speeding
UN rights chief alarmed by reported use of powerful spyware
The United Nations’ human rights chief has voiced alarm over the reported use of military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents
Zoom buying Five9 in $14.7B all-stock transaction
Zoom, the videoconferencing company whose growth was supercharged by the pandemic over the past year, will buy the cloud call center company Five9 in an all-stock deal valued at about $14.7 billion
EXPLAINER: How Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos will soar into space
When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board
Biden: Social media platforms ‘killing people’ with misinfo
President Joe Biden says social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about the COVID-19 vaccines
Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows
A study published Friday in the journal Science Advances shows that just a sliver of our genome is uniquely shared with other humans, and not shared by other extinct groups like Neanderthals and Denisovans
‘When will this end?’: Detroit area hit again with flooding
Steady rain soaked the Detroit area, flooding highways and raising the anxiety of residents
