ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) 鈥� The World Video Game Hall of Fame on Thursday inducted four honorees, paying tribute to games that challenged players and changed the industry. Making up the Class of 2025 are: Defender, the 1981 arcade game that raised the bar on difficulty; Tamagotchi, the digital pets that bridged toys and video games; […]
CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) 鈥� There were dozens of statements submitted to the court by family and friends of Christopher Pelkey when it came time to sentence the man convicted of shooting him during a road rage incident. They provided glimpses of Pelkey鈥檚 humor, his character and his military service. But there was nothing quite like […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Federal officials on Wednesday released images of a doomed New York City sightseeing helicopter as it broke apart in midair last month, killing six people. The series of still photographs taken from surveillance camera video shows the fuselage, containing the engine and rotors, separating from the helicopter’s tail. The rotor blades […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) 鈥� Seventeen states are suing President Donald Trump ‘s administration for withholding billions of dollars in funding for the buildout of electric vehicle chargers, according to a federal lawsuit announced Wednesday. The move comes after the Trump administration in February directed states to stop spending money for electric vehicle charging infrastructure that […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) 鈥� Puerto Rico鈥檚 governor came under fire Tuesday as her pledge to support the investment of millions of federal dollars in solar projects across the U.S. territory appeared to fade. More than a week has passed since the U.S. Department of Energy missed a deadline to finalize contracts worth $365 […]
Months after the release of a film that questions who took an iconic Vietnam War image of a naked girl running from a napalm attack, The Associated Press said Tuesday it had found 鈥渘o definitive evidence鈥� to warrant changing a nearly 52-year-old photo credit. The AP released a 96-page report 鈥� its second examination in […]
JEROME, Fla. (AP) 鈥� Florida wildlife officers have killed three black bears in southwest Florida following a fatal attack on a man and a dog a day earlier, officials said Tuesday. DNA samples from the bears and the attack scene have been sent to a Gainesville lab for testing to determine if any of the […]
LONDON (AP) 鈥� Skype is dead. What now? Microsoft’s shutdown of Skype on May 5 sent millions of users scrambling to find an alternative to the pioneering internet phone service. Skype, which Microsoft bought in 2011, was beloved by a dwindling group of users who appreciated how it let them make cheap long-distance calls as […]
The U.S. Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google by asking it to give up the underlying technology powering the company’s digital ad network. The proposed remedy joins a separate federal effort to separate the Chrome browser from its dominant search engine. The government’s latest proposal was filed late Monday […]
BANGKOK (AP) 鈥� An ethnic militia in southeastern Myanmar that has been sanctioned by the United States for alleged involvement in human trafficking and online scams on Tuesday denied the accusations. The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday announced sanctions against the Karen National Army, or KNA, as well as its leader Col. Saw Chit Thu […]
In the crypto world, meme coins are mostly just jokes with no intrinsic value. But the Trump family is parlaying the president鈥檚 meme coin into two valuable commodities: serious cash and access to the president. Since the coin was launched earlier this year, it has generated more than $320 million in fees for its creators, […]
After months spent pursuing a plan to convert itself into a for-profit business, OpenAI is reversing course and said Monday its nonprofit will continue to control the company that makes ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products. 鈥淲e made the decision for the nonprofit to stay in control after hearing from civic leaders and having discussions […]
A teenager who admitted being 鈥渁ddicted to speed鈥� behind the wheel had totaled two other cars in the year before he slammed into a minivan at 112 mph (180 kph) in a Seattle suburb, killing the driver and three of the five children she was transporting for a homeschool co-op. After sentencing Chase Daniel Jones […]
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) 鈥� Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday that he wants to step down as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year. The revelation came as a surprise because the 94-year-old had previously said he did not plan to retire. Buffett, one of the world’s richest people and most […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� Fans of the hugely popular video game series Grand Theft Auto will have to wait a little longer to play the latest version. In a post on X Friday, Rockstar Games said it delayed the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI until May 26, 2026. It apologized for the delay of a […]
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) 鈥� Sachi Schmidt-Hori has never played Assassin鈥檚 Creed Shadows, but facing an onslaught of online harassment from its fans, she quickly developed her own gameplay style: confronting hate with kindness. Schmidt-Hori, an associate professor of Japanese literature and culture at Dartmouth College, worked as a narrative consultant on the latest installment in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The CIA has a message for Chinese government officials worried about their place in President Xi Jinping’s government: Come work with us. America’s premier spy agency released two Mandarin-language videos on social media Thursday inviting disgruntled officials to contact the CIA. The recruitment videos posted to YouTube and X racked up more […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� Georgia on Thursday became the eighth state to see its law requiring parental consent for children to use social media challenged in court. NetChoice, a technology industry trade group, sued in federal court in Atlanta to overturn the law, which is scheduled to take effect on July 1. Similar laws have been […]
BOSTON (AP) 鈥� Tariffs weren’t on the agenda of this week’s Robotics Summit, where thousands of tech industry workers mingled with humanoid and other robot varieties and talked about how to build and sell a new generation of increasingly autonomous machines. Not on the official agenda, at least. 鈥淛ump up to the microphones,鈥� said keynote […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥� Conservative activist Robby Starbuck has filed a defamation lawsuit against Meta alleging that the social media giant’s artificial intelligence chatbot spread false statements about him, including that he participated in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Starbuck, known for targeting corporate DEI programs, said he discovered the […]
Artificial intelligence 鈥渁gents鈥� are supposed to be more than chatbots. The tech industry has spent months pitching AI personal assistants that know what you want and can do real work on your behalf. So far, they’re not doing much. Visa hopes to change that by giving them your credit card. Set a budget and some […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) 鈥� A group of high school students in upstate New York are being threatened with charges of kidnapping if they don’t turn themselves into authorities over a lacrosse team hazing prank in which participants are accused of staging an armed abduction of younger players. Prosecutors allege members of the lacrosse program at […]
Congress has overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called 鈥渞evenge porn.鈥� Known as the Take It Down Act, the bill is now headed to President Donald Trump鈥檚 desk for his signature. The measure was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, and Sen. […]
There’s a new pour from Starbucks: Its first 3D printed store in the U.S. The Seattle-based coffee giant with more than 17,000 locations nationwide has never had a store quite like the one opening this week in the Texas city of Brownsville, along the U.S.-Mexico border, where a computer-controlled robotic arm did much of the […]
