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Amazon asks corporate staff to be in offices 3 days a week 02/17/2023 03:50pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Amazon will require its corporate employees to return to the office at least three days a week. CEO Andy Jassy announced the policy Friday in a memo to staff. It marks a shift from Amazon's current policy of allowing leaders to determine how their teams worked. The change will go i NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week 02/17/2023 10:39am • A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts: ___ Posts misuse Ohio River map to distort contaminat TikTok plans 2 more European data centers amid privacy fears 02/17/2023 07:16am • LONDON (AP) ��� TikTok said Friday that it's planning two more European data centers, as the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app seeks to allay growing concerns about data privacy for its users in the West. TikTok has been under fire from European and American authorities over concerns that i Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot 02/16/2023 07:18pm • Microsoft���s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet. But if you cross its artificially intelligent chatbot, it might also insult your looks, threaten your reputation or compare you to Adolf Hitler. The tech Billionaire Ray Dalio's 9 Top Stock and ETF Picks 02/16/2023 07:00pm • Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates is the world's largest hedge fund with $126.4 billion in assets. Dalio himself has a net worth of roughly $19 billion, according to Forbes. Bridgewater's popular Pure Alpha II fund struggled during the wild market swings in 2020, generating a 12.6% loss for the yea YouTube CEO steps down, severing longtime ties to Google 02/16/2023 04:24pm • Susan Wojcicki, a longtime Google executive who played a key role in the company's creation, is stepping down as YouTube's CEO after spending the past nine years running the video site that has reshaped entertainment, culture and politics. In an email to YouTube employees that was shared publicly Th Advocates chronicle LA's Virgin of Guadalupe street art 02/16/2023 04:00pm • LOS ANGELES (RNS) ��� There���s nothing that Oscar Rodriguez Zapata enjoys more than going out for a drive to explore Los Angeles��� vast neighborhoods in search of the Virgin of Guadalupe. He packs his Nikon Z6 II and a Fujifilm X100V and photographs murals, landscapes, storefronts and people acros Skydome, DC area's only rotating restaurant, reopens 02/16/2023 09:48am • Skydome, the rotating restaurant in Arlington's Crystal City, has reopened after a three-year closure which started with the pandemic. The Virginia-based restaurant has also undergone renovations since it closed, and now, it has a new menu and head chef. The Skydome restaurant in Arlington. ( Billionaire George Soros' 7 Top Stock Picks in 2023 02/15/2023 07:00pm • George Soros is one of the most successful investors in history. His Soros Fund Management currently manages $8.4 billion in assets, and Soros himself has an estimated net worth of $6.7 billion after donating more than $30 billion to philanthropic causes. Soros formerly managed the Quantum Fund, whi Apple-Apps-Top-10 02/14/2023 11:58am • Top Paid iPhone Apps: 1. Minecraft, Mojang 2. Shadowrocket, Shadow Launch Technology Limited 3. Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi 4. Papa���s Freezeria To Go!, Flipline Studios 5. HotSchedules 6. Heads Up!, Warner Bros. 7. Geometry Dash, RobTop Games AB 8. Plague Inc., Ndemic Creations 9. Rovio Classics: AB, Rumors swirl about balloons, UFOs as officials stay mum 02/14/2023 11:23am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Maybe they came from China. Maybe from somewhere farther away. A lot farther away. The downing of four aerial devices by U.S. warplanes has touched off rampant misinformation about the objects, their origin and their purpose, showing how complicated world events and a lack of inf Philanthropy 50: List of America���s top 50 donors of 2022 02/14/2023 11:19am • These are the donors who gave the most in 2022, according to The Philanthropy 50, an annual ranking compiled by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. A searchable database with more information on the donors and their beneficiaries is available at philanthropy.com. 1. Bill Gates Microsoft co-founder $5.1 b Amid ChatGPT outcry, some teachers are inviting AI to class 02/14/2023 09:10am • LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) ��� Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the ���robot��� that was churning out writing assignments. The robot was the new artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, which can gene Google to expand misinformation 'prebunking' in Europe 02/13/2023 05:52am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After seeing promising results in Eastern Europe, Google will initiate a new campaign in Germany that aims to make people more resilient to the corrosive effects of online misinformation. The tech giant plans to release a series of short videos highlighting the techniques common Super Bowl ads use celebs, humor, lots of dogs 02/12/2023 10:25pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Advertisers bet big that viewers were turning to the Super Bowl for a comforting escape, and delivered a series of advertisements that relied on familiar celebrity faces, light humor, and plenty of cuddly dogs. This wasn���t a year for edgy humor or experimentation. After the gl