Topic: Technology

The soaring popularity of smartphone apps that scan barcodes on food products to provide health scores are empowering consumers and shifting dynamics in the food industry, recent studies suggest.

The Federal Trade Commission has delayed enforcing the Negative Option Rule, which is the "click-to-cancel" option requiring companies to make it as easy to cancel subscriptions and other programs.

Google will pay $1.375 billion to settle a 2022 data privacy lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Friday.

The artificial general intelligence research company OpenAI announced Wednesday it has hired current Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as its head of Applications.

The revelation of a potential change from Google to an AI-powered search engine for Apple's Safari web browser caused shares in both tech firms to lose value on Wednesday.

A federal jury in California has ordered Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO to pay WhatsApp nearly $170 million in damages for using the smart phone messaging application to spy on its users.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Google should divest two of its ad products after a ruling said it illegally acquired and kept a monopoly in the tech advertising sector.

SpaceX launched a new group of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low-Earth orbit Tuesday night.

OpenAI said Monday its nonprofit wing will keep control over for-profit operations after initial plans to convert the company to a for-profit organization and following outside pressure to stay not-for-profit.

Skype debuted in 2003 and was an early disruptor in online communications, but Microsoft says it's time to close Skype and focus on its Teams video conferencing platform.