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US applications for jobless benefits rise to highest level in two months, but layoffs remain low 04/04/2024 08:47am • The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits rose to their highest level in two months last week, but layoffs remain at historically low levels as the labor market continues to chug along despite elevated interest rates. The Labor Department reported Thursday that filings for unemployment c Scathing federal report rips Microsoft for shoddy security, insincerity in response to Chinese hack 04/03/2024 12:50pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying ���a cascade of errors��� by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. offici Virginia-based Hilton expands luxury hotel business with NoMad deal 04/03/2024 10:32am • McLean, Virginia-based Hilton Worldwide has acquired a majority controlling interest in boutique hotel developer Sydell Group to expand its luxury lifestyle hotel brand NoMad to as many as 100 markets. The London NoMad, in Covent Garden in the West End, is in a historic building. Rooms all have Browsing in incognito mode doesn't protect you as much as you might think 04/02/2024 03:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Although a private browsing mode known as ���Incognito" in Google's widely used Chrome browser has been available for nearly a decade, a legal settlement involving the way it works has cast new attention on this commonly available setting. The settlement disclosed Monday in a feder Apple App Store - Top Apps 04/02/2024 11:50am • Top Free iPhone Apps (US): 1. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, Activision Publishing, Inc. 2. SHEIN - Shopping Online, ROADGET BUSINESS PTE. LTD. 3. Threads, an Instagram app, Instagram, Inc. 4. Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire, Temu 5. Google, Google 6. TikTok, TikTok Ltd. 7. WhatsApp Messenger, WhatsApp Forced from their Gaza home by Israeli troops, a family makes a frightening walk through a war zone 04/02/2024 02:02am • CAIRO (AP) ��� It wasn���t lack of food that pushed Heba al-Haddad and her family to leave their home in Gaza City. They had a source of clean water and could live off boiled peas. It wasn���t the incessant shelling. They felt the stairways would protect them even in a direct hit on their building. Abortions are legal in much of Africa. But few women may be aware, and providers don't advertise it 04/02/2024 01:02am • ACCRA, Ghana (AP) ��� When Efua, a 25-year-old fashion designer and single mother in Ghana, became pregnant last year, she sought an abortion at a health clinic but worried the procedure might be illegal. Health workers assured her abortions were lawful under certain conditions in the West African c Google to purge billions of files containing personal data in settlement of Chrome privacy case 04/01/2024 08:58pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Google has agreed to purge billions of records containing personal information collected from more than 136 million people in the U.S. surfing the internet through its Chrome web browser. The massive housecleaning comes as part of a settlement in a lawsuit accusing the search 5 Sectors Disrupted by AI as a Service 04/01/2024 08:00pm • Artificial intelligence has shown its potential to help people become more productive and access relevant information faster, igniting the technology's adoption across many industries. Some sectors have been changed forever because of artificial intelligence, while others are experiencing gradual sh 7 of the Best Growth Funds to Buy and Hold 04/01/2024 08:00pm • Finding growth stocks involves more than just looking at which companies have performed well recently, a strategy more closely aligned with momentum investing. Momentum investing focuses on stocks that have shown significant price increases over a certain period, betting that they will continue to c Gmail revolutionized email 20 years ago. People thought it was Google's April Fools' Day joke 04/01/2024 09:06am • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fools' Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research cent Huawei���s profit more than doubles in 2023, sales up 9.6% as cloud and digital businesses grow 03/29/2024 04:25am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Chinese telecoms gear company Huawei Technologies has reported its profit more than doubled last year as its cloud and digital businesses thrived in spite of U.S. sanctions. The Shenzhen-based company reported a net profit of 87 billion yuan ($12 billion), helped by strong sales A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocks 03/27/2024 12:01pm • Earth���s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way ��� but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rot Apple announces Worldwide Developers Conference dates, in-person event 03/27/2024 11:12am • Apple has announced their annual developers conference will take place June 10 through June 14. The big summer event will be live-streamed, but some select developers have been invited to attend in-person events at Apple's campus in Cupertino, California, on June 10. The company typically showcases 5 Credit Card Management Apps to Stay on Top of Payments 03/26/2024 08:00pm • If you're like many people, you rely on apps to track everything from fitness goals to prescriptions. Why not use apps to manage your credit cards and help simplify your finances? This U.S. News guide will get you up to speed on apps designed to manage all aspects of your credit life. What Credit Ca