China's Luckin Coffee Tries To Conquer A Nation Of Tea Drinkers In less than two years, the Chinese brand has opened 2,300 stores — second in China only to Starbucks. The company went public on Nasdaq on Friday. And it's losing millions. Yuhan Xu
U.S. Telecommunications Networks Barred From Using Foreign Suppliers Trump signed an executive order restricting technology and services of foreign adversaries. It appears to be aimed at banning a Chinese telecommunications company's equipment from U.S. networks.
New Zealand's Ardern Calls On Social Media Companies To Stem Terrorist Content Facebook said Tuesday that it would implement a "one-strike" policy that would prevent users who have violated the site's standards from using its livestreaming platform. Laurel Wamsley
Facebook Announces Restrictions To Its Live Feature Noel King talks to CNN's Heather Kelly about Facebook announcing on Tuesday that it is tightening rules involving livestreaming. Facebook cited the New Zealand gunman who live-streamed a massacre.
San Francisco Considers Ban On Government's Use Of Facial Recognition Technology The city is home to some of the world's largest technology companies, but it may ban the use of facial recognition software by police and city agencies. Shannon Van Sant
Will Scootermania End With A Crash? Big Scooter is worth billions of dollars. Is this a sign we're in another tech bubble? Greg Rosalsky
When Technology Can Be Used To Build Weapons, Some Workers Take A Stand Tech workers have increasingly been asking ethical questions about their industry's involvement with the military. One such worker took her company's CEO to task. Jasmine Garsd
'Code For Venezuela' Aims To Find Solutions For The Embattled Country NPR's Michel Martin talks with Jose Montes de Oca, co-organizer of Code for Venezuela, an organization of tech workers who organize "hackathons" to help solve some of the country's problems.
Trust in Microsoft? That's the message at Build conference Microsoft is wrapping up its annual developer conference in Seattle on Wednesday. Geekwire’s Todd Bishop hit the highlights of Build for KUOW’s Angela King. Angela King
How Computer-Assisted Telepathy Helps Humans Communicate The next phase of human evolution seems headed toward merging biological bodies with machines, and in the first video of Future You, Elise Hu gets connected to a network and plays a game her thoughts. Elise Hu