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  KEY POINTS New Twitter owner Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. The billionaire’s announcement came after he asked in a poll posted to his timeline about reinstatements. Such online polls are anything but scientific and can easily be influenced by bots. Elon Musk’s Twitter account displayed on a mobile with Elon Musk in the background are seen in this illustration. In Brussels - Belgium on 19 November 2022.  Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images New Twitter owner Elon Musk said Thursday that he is granting “amnesty” for suspended accounts, which online safety experts predict will spur a rise in harassment, hate speech and misinformation. The billionaire’s announcement came after he asked in a poll posted to his timeline to vote on reinstatements for accounts that have not “broken the law or engaged in egregious spam.” The yes vote was 72%. “T

  KEY POINTS Microsoft has failed to pick up even 3% of market share in its 10 years of selling Surface PCs that have come in the form of convertible tablets, laptops and all-in-one computers. Finding Surface devotees can be hard to find, but they’re out there. The Surface business isn’t tiny today. It brings in more revenue than many other companies. In this article MSFT -0.21 (-0.09%) Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Panos Panay, chief product officer of Microsoft Corp., displays the new Surface Laptop 3 computer during a Microsoft product event in New York on Oct. 2, 2019. Microsoft unveiled a dual-screen, foldable phone that will run on Google’s Android operating system, jumping back into a market it exited years ago. Mark Kauzlarich | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft  made a splash in 2012 when it introduced the Surface, the first computer it had built in its 37 years of existence. The computers are still kicking 10 years later, with Microsoft issuing annual updat

  KEY POINTS Iger took questions from employees after about five minutes of introduction. He acknowledged Disney’s focus must shift toward making its streaming business profitable, rather than concentrating on simply adding subscribers. In a memo last week, Iger said one of his first actions will be to redo Disney’s organizational structure. In this article DIS -0.04 (-0.04%) Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chief executive officer and chairman of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger and Mickey Mouse look on before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, November 27, 2017 in New York City. Getty Images Disney  Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger said Monday during his first town hall since returning to the company that he won’t remove its hiring freeze as he reassesses its cost structure. Iger kicked off the town hall by quoting a song from the musical “Hamilton” that says “There is no more status quo. But the sun comes up and the world still spins,” according

  KEY POINTS Amazon’s cloud computing division successfully ran a software suite on a satellite in orbit, the company announced Tuesday. AWS, or Amazon Web Services, used prototype software on a satellite to analyze imagery. The software automatically reviewed images to decide which were the most useful to send back down to the ground, and also reduced the size of images. In this article AMZN -0.15 (-0.16%) Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT An image captured by the ION Elysian Eleonara satellite in January 2022. D-Orbit Amazon’s  cloud computing division successfully ran a software suite on a satellite in orbit, in a “first-of-its-kind” experiment, the company announced Tuesday. AWS, or Amazon Web Services, conducted the prototype satellite software demonstration through partnerships with Italian company D-Orbit and Swedish venture Unibap. The experiment was conducted over the past 10 months in low Earth orbit, using a D-Orbit satellite as the test platform. The success o