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Apple has endorsed a California Senate bill that would require large companies to report the levels of greenhouse gases they emit every year, the senator proposing the measure said, making it the latest major company to do so. «Throughout our environmental journey, we've emphasized the importance of measurement and reporting to help us understand our impact,» said the letter, signed by Apple's director for state and local government affairs D. Michael Foulkes, a copy of which Senator Scott Wiener posted on Thursday to X, formerly known as Twitter.

Elon Musk,on Friday, legally challenged recent social media laws implemented in California. The new laws require social media companies to reveal their policies for policing disinformation, harassment, hate speech and extremism. X Corporation's Elon sued California government over the law that aims to bring transparency and extremism.

By Jonathan Stempel

Elon Musk's social media platform formerly known as Twitter has sued the state of California over a law requiring social media companies to publish their policies for removing offending material such as hate speech, misinformation and harassment with d...

World Tour birthday show, actor Sarah Francis Jones unexpectedly went into labor. The concert, held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, was a major event, featuring surprise appearances, including Diana Ross. Sarah Francis Jones and her partner, Marcel Spears, shared a video on Instagram. It showed Jones, heavily pregnant, enjoying the concert and later giving birth to her baby. They jokingly mentioned that Beyoncé induced the labor. In another video caption, Jones revealed that they initially thought it was false labor but ended up having their baby during Beyoncé's birthday show on Labor Day. The September 4th concert marked the conclusion of Beyoncé's three-date residency at SoFi Stadium as part of her North American tour. The tour's success was evident, with earnings of $141.4 million from the first 12 U.S. and Canada shows, selling 553,000 tickets. This tour surpassed her previous highest-grossing tours, including The Formation World Tour and On the Run II Tour. Besides the music, the tour also gave rise to a «Everybody On Mute Challenge,» where fans attempted to stay silent during a specific song moment. Sarah Francis Jones, known for her role in the 2007 film adaptation of «Hairspray,» has appeared in various other projects, including «Honey,» «Jump In!,» «Camp Rock,» «Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,» «Descendants 3,» «Julie and the Phantoms,» and the Emmy-nominated HBO show «The Last of Us» in 2023.

By Pete Schroeder

Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit claiming that it violated the medical privacy of patients who were treated by hospitals and other healthcare providers that used its Meta Pixel tracking tool. US District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco said the plaintiffs could pursue claims that Meta violated a federal wiretap law and a California privacy law, and violated its own contractual promises governing user privacy on Facebook.

Apple has endorsed a California Senate bill that would require large companies to report the levels of greenhouse gases they emit every year, the senator proposing the measure said, making it the latest major company to do so. «Throughout our environmental journey, we've emphasized the importance of measurement and reporting to help us understand our impact,» said the letter, signed by Apple's director for state and local government affairs D. Michael Foulkes, a copy of which Senator Scott Wiener posted on Thursday to X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Investing.com -- Shares in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) climbed in early U.S. trading on Friday, paring back some losses from two straight days of declines that wiped around $200 billion off of the tech giant's market value. Media reports suggesting that government officials in China have been barred from using Apple’s iPhone and other foreign-branded mobile devices at work have sparked concerns that Beijing is willing to sideline American companies in favor of Chinese players. China is a crucial market for Apple, with the country accounting for nearly a fifth of its total sales. 

Investing.com — Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares hug the flatline in premarket trading on Friday following a two-day skid sparked by reports that China is telling government officials not to use the California company's iPhone device for work. Elsewhere, two more Federal Reserve policymakers hint that the central bank may skip hiking interest rates at its September gathering, while U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen suggests that China's post-COVID economic woes may not have a «significant impact» on the United States.

Google is opening a new visitor centre at its headquarters in Mountain View, California with new public spaces, a pop-up shop featuring local businesses and a Google Store on October 12, as the tech giant celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. The new destination will give people a chance to experience Google and its hometown community from a public cafe and a Google Store to an events space and pop-up shop featuring local businesses.

Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, has pleaded guilty to charges related to defrauding the United States Federal Elections Commission and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business

Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season.Lee was not expected to make landfall while on a projected path that will take it near the northeast Caribbean, although forecasters said tropical storm conditions are possible on some islands. Meteorologists said it was too early to provide details on potential rainfall and wind gusts.The storm was located some 965 miles (1,555 kilometers) from the northern Leeward Islands.

Tyler Childers, the singer-songwriter, is set to embark on his Mule Pull '24 tour in 2024 to support his upcoming album, Rustin’ In The Rain, releasing on September 8. The tour begins in Europe and then moves to North America. Fans in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway can attend his concerts. The North American concert ticket presale is ongoing, with registration closing on September 10 at 11:59 pm ET. Registering on Tyler Childers' official website grants access to the Verified Fan presale on September 13. The Europe and UK show presale will also be on September 13, with tickets available at tylerchildersmusic.com.

Bloomberg. As per the report, California-based company Cupertino's shares dropped 5.1 percent, bringing its two-day slump to 6.8 percent.

Blue Zones released. In the docuseries, Dan Buettner, author and National Geographic fellow, takes a look at five areas in the world – the Blue Zones – where people have the highest life expectancy. He aims to learn the secret to a healthy and long life from the people in these areas. From what he learned from people who have lived a 100 years on this planet, Buettner created the Blue Zones diet.

Investing.com -- Shares in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) fell in early U.S. trading on Thursday, as a decline in the stock stretched into a second straight day following a report that China had banned government officials from using the tech giant's iPhone and other foreign-branded devices for work.

Roman Storm, co-founder of the sanctioned Ethereum-based crypto mixer Tornado Cash, has pleaded not guilty to charges related to money laundering and sanctions violations.

ChatGPT, OpenAI, Reuters reported on Thursday. The bank is testing it with 1,000 financial advisers for some months. The details of the program have not yet been reported.

All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant’s alleged monopolistic control of the distribution of apps for the software that runs most ...