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Apple may be doing away with one of its most divisive pieces of technology this year, and some fans aren’t sorry to see it go. While the MacBook Pro design hasn’t changed significantly in five years, Apple will eliminate its digital Touch Bar, according to a January memo from Ming-Chi Kuo, a top Apple analyst

After a rocky 12 months, oil prices — which got crushed when Covid-19 slashed demand for energy around the world — are roaring back. What’s happening: Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, have breached $60 per barrel, their highest level since January 2020. The immediate catalyst appeared to be weekend remarks from President Joe Biden

Nothing unusual happened when Lou Dobbs hosted his Fox Business show on Thursday evening. His hour was full of Fox’s usual themes about “radical Dims” (Democrats) and Big Tech “abusing their power.” “Join us here tomorrow,” he said at the end of the show. “See you then.” But that, it turned out, was his final

Clubhouse appears to have been blocked in China just days after it became the go-to app for uncensored conversations on a host of sensitive issues banned on other platforms. Over the weekend, several large Chinese-language chat rooms were set up on the invite-only audio app, where guests talked about politically-charged topics such as the ongoing

Tesla is betting big on bitcoin, saying it may soon accept the digital currency as payment for its cars. And the most valuable car company on the stock market said it is holding some of its cash in bitcoins rather than traditional currency. In its annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla said

The US airline industry just closed the books on the worst year in its history, losing a combined $32 billion excluding special items. Yet it still ended 2020 awash in an ocean of cash. The nation’s four largest airlines — American, Delta, United and Southwest — among them had $31.5 billion in cash on their

It’s that time of year again, when people actually look forward to watching TV commercials. Millions of viewers will tune in to Super Bowl LV, which airs Sunday evening on CBS. Despite notable brands opting out of airing commercials during the game this year, the sports spectacle will see several newcomers looking to introduce themselves

Sunday is an unofficial holiday in the US as the NFL kicks off the Super Bowl, and “Saturday Night Live” had plenty to say about it. The NBC variety show opened up Saturday’s episode mocking the CBS Super Bowl pre-game show with Kenan Thompson playing CBS Sports anchor, James Brown. “Hello! Welcome to the Super

A new children’s book called “Doctor Li and The Crown-Wearing Virus” is the origin story of Doctor Li Wenliang, who first raised the alarm that a novel coronavirus was spreading in Wuhan, China. The police tried to silence Li, but he continued to speak out. In the book, a 7-year-old, May, learns about Doctor Li’s

Kroger has joined a growing list of large US grocery store chains offering incentives for workers to get the Covid-19 vaccine. The company announced that its associates would get a one-time $100 payment if they show proof that they’ve received the full manufacturer-recommended doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Workers that can’t get the vaccine for

Lou Dobbs, the longtime host of the signature right-wing talk show on the Fox Business Network, was canned by the network on Friday night. “Lou Dobbs Tonight” is off the air, effective immediately, a Fox spokesperson confirmed. An interim show will take Dobbs’ place at 5 and 7 p.m. Eastern starting Monday. It was a

Two prominent staffers of The New York Times who’d been the focus of high-profile recent controversies for the paper — audio producer Andy Mills and science and health reporter Donald McNeil, Jr. — are leaving the paper. Mills’ departure follows the paper’s correction of the “Caliphate” podcast — an award-winning podcast he helped produced —

Myanmar further expanded its internet crackdown, ordering a block of Twitter and Instagram days after the country’s military seized power in a coup. The move comes barely a day after a similar block of Facebook. On Friday, the Myanmar Ministry of Transport and Communications ordered mobile networks and internet service providers in the country to

The first jobs report of the Joe Biden presidency was less than OK — but Wall Street cheered anyway. Stocks rose Friday, extending all-time highs for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. The Dow gained more than 90 points, or 0.3% on Friday, while the S&P added 0.4% and the Nasdaq rose 0.6%. The government said

Thousands of Amazon warehouse workers at an Alabama facility will be able to cast their votes on whether to unionize by mail-in ballots beginning next week after the National Labor Relations Board rejected the company’s latest attempt to stall the vote by pushing for it to be held in-person, despite the pandemic. In a decision