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President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during an event on protecting seniors with diabetes in the Rose Garden White House, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, in Washington.

Trump threatens social media after Twitter fact-checks him

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering a day after Twitter added fact checks to two of his tweets ...

Weather better for historic SpaceX launch of NASA astronauts

The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule is serviced on Launch Pad 39-A Tuesday, May 26, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Two astronauts will fly on the SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station scheduled for launch on May 27.

NASA astronauts go back to the future with capsule launch

This illustration made available by SpaceX depicts the company's Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket during the uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Apple, Google release technology for pandemic apps

Facebook introduces new platform to help small businesses

Video app TikTok names top Disney streaming exec as new CEO

In this July 13, 2015 file photo, Disney chief strategy officer Kevin Mayer visits the company's

This combination photo shows, from left, Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James before an NBA basketball game on Jan. 22, 2020, in New York, Jimmy Fallon at the Time 100 Gala on April 23, 2019, in New York and Kristen Bell at the world premiere of

LeBron James, Spotify, HBO among 2020 Webby Award winners

LeBron James, Jimmy Fallon, Spotify and HBO are among the 2020 Webby Award winners for internet excellence...

Quarantine can mean extra screen time for kids and extra guilt for parents

Virus conspiracy-theory video shows challenges for big tech

In this Feb. 28, 2011, file photo, Director of research Judy Mikovits talks to a graduate student and research associate in the lab, at the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, in Reno, Nev. Tech companies scrambled to take down a 26-minute documentary-style video called “Plandemic” of Mikovits promoting a string of questionable, false and potentially dangerous coronavirus theories.

Privacy groups: TikTok app violating children's privacy

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2020 photo shows the icon for TikTok taken in New York. Privacy watchdogs say that the popular TikTok video app is violating a children’s privacy law and putting kids at risk. They filed a complaint saying TikTok is collecting personal information of kids under 13 without their parents’ consent, even after a $5.7 million FTC fine in 2019 over child-privacy law violations.

Uber introduces face detection technology to ensure drivers wear masks

This Wednesday, June 21, 2017, file photo shows the building that houses the headquarters of Uber, in San Francisco.

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2020, file photo, Jay Butler, deputy director for infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), speaks to the media in regards to the novel coronavirus, while standing in front of a map marked with areas having reported cases, inside the Emergency Operations Center in Atlanta. In the United States, the nation with the most pandemic deaths, the reporting of vital coronavirus case and testing data is not keeping pace with its speedy spread. Public health officials nationwide lean too heavily on faxes, email and spreadsheets, sluggish and inefficient 20th-century tools.

Faxes and email: Old technology slows COVID-19 response

You’d hardly know the U.S. invented the internet by the way its public health workers are collecting vital pandemic data ...

Twitter to label disputed COVID-19 tweets

Space agency: Human urine could help make concrete on moon

The last super moon of 2020, also known as the Flower Moon rises in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, May 7, 2020.

Astronomers find closest black hole to Earth, hints of more

This illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory in May 2020 shows the orbits of the objects in the HR 6819 triple system. The group is made up of an inner binary with one star, orbit in blue, and a newly discovered black hole, orbit in red, as well as a third star in a wider orbit, blue.

Here come COVID-19 tracing apps - and privacy tradeoffs

A soldier of the Swiss army wearing a protective face mask holds a smartphone with an app using Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-3T) during a test with 100 soldiers in the military compound of Chamblon near Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, Thursday, April 30, 2020. The race by governments to develop mobile tracing apps in order to contain infections after lockdowns ease is focusing attention on privacy.

In this May 3, 2020 photo, clouds roll over the Supreme Court at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Monday, May 4, the Supreme Court for the first time audio of court's arguments will be heard live by the world and the first arguments by telephone.

Hello, justice, do you hear me? Supreme Court meets by phone

HealthPartners, U of M researchers launch app to fight COVID-19 at neighborhood level

U of M researchers develop new portable coronavirus testing device

Young climate activists slowed by pandemic, but not defeated

While some fear they've lost some momentum in the pandemic, they are determined to keep pushing — and for now, to use technology to their advantage...

In this Friday, Feb 21, 2020, photo, environmental activist Licypriya Kangujam, 8, stands at Juhu beach in front of a pile of trash during a cleaning drive in Mumbai, India. Kangujam is among the younger climate activists in the world and, beginning two years ago at age 6, began taking on issues ranging from carbon emissions in her home country to ocean pollution.

St. Paul laundromat using UV rays to combat COVID-19

Arcade Laundromat in St. Paul is the first in the U.S. to use UV rays to clean clothes. It's a technique co-owner Nick Dillon says will bring peace of mind to those worried about COVID-19 ...

Dunwoody College instructor uses tech expertise to craft 'ear savers' for health care workers

Dunwoody College of Technology instructor Jaz Darden is supporting health care workers by using her talents with 3D printing to create "ear savers" ...

Politics

Trump threatens social media after Twitter fact-checks him

President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering a day after Twitter added fact checks to two of his tweets ...

Entertainment

Walt Disney World presenting plans for reopening parks

Earlier this month, Shanghai Disneyland became the first of Disney's theme park resorts to reopen, with severe limits on the number of visitors allowed in, mandatory masks and temperature checks ...

Minnesota Sports

Former Orono HS star Jon Leuer announces retirement from NBA

Former Orono high school star Jon Leuer announced his retirement from the NBA. He played for five teams over eight seasons. Our Darren 'Doogie' Wolfson talked to Leuer...

Long Lake native Jon Leuer retires. He played in the NBA for the Cavs, Bucks, Pistons, Suns, and Grizzlies.

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