Apple reopened some of its stores last month, requiring temperature checks and facial masks for customers. It says it's now closing nearly a dozen stores across four states in which coronavirus cases were climbing. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
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People raise their arms while marching on Market Street in San Francisco. As tech companies write statement and pledge money to address racial inequity, some black tech workers are urging for more fundamental changes in the industry. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Facebook's Like logo is shown on a sign at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Facebook said it has taken down Trump campaign ads on the social network that contained a symbol used by Nazis to designate political prisoners. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An 'Emoji'
Ellie is one of the playable characters — and four years later, she's not the bubbly teenager she was in the first game. Naughty Dog/Sony Entertainment hide caption
Facebook has faced criticism from employees and outside groups for not blocking President Trump's inflammatory posts. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Research firm Graphika says a shadowy group of operatives in Russia produced more than 2,500 pieces of false information across seven languages on 300 different social media platforms. In one example, a fabricated tweet appears as if Sen. Marco Rubio is accusing British authorities of spying on President Trump. Graphika hide caption
Washington D.C.'s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library is one of the libraries trying to accomodate patrons' different needs during the pandemic. Thomas Hawk/Flickr Creative Commons hide caption
Federal prosecutors on Monday unveiled criminal charges against six former eBay employees for allegedly carrying out a harassment campaign against a Massachusetts couple who run a ecommerce newsletter. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
Amazon confirms it will make Jeff Bezos available to testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing with other tech CEOs this summer. Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Rebekah Jones says she was fired after she refused to manipulate coronavirus data at the Florida Health Department. Now she has launched her own COVID-19 data portal for the state. Screenshot by NPR/ Florida's Community Coronavirus Dashboard hide caption
In the lab with George Washington Carver, a prominent soil scientist and inventor of the early 20th Century Bettmann/Bettmann Archive hide caption
Zoom acknowledged Thursday that it had suspended three accounts belonging to activists at China's request. Two of the accounts belonged to U.S.-based activists and the third to a labor leader in Hong Kong. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Axel Stone and friends return to clean up the streets once again in Streets of Rage 4. LizardCube hide caption
Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in the state's primary election on Tuesday in Atlanta. Ron Harris/AP hide caption
A cafe employee in Washington, D.C., cleans in preparation for reopening. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is blasting Facebook for its refusal to fact-check political speech. John J. Kim/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption
CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hands-off approach to President Trump has set off a public revolt among Facebook employees that is the company's biggest challenge this year. George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Critics Slam Facebook But Zuckerberg Resists Blocking Trump's Posts
Sometimes, revisiting an old game can serve as a time capsule of your life when you first played it. Brittany Vincent hide caption
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it would freeze for one year the use of its facial recognition technology by law enforcement agencies. Reed Saxon/AP hide caption
After months of shutdowns that have damaged the ride-hailing industry, Uber says it sees signs of revival. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
IBM announced this week that it would stop selling its facial recognition technology to customers including police departments. The move prompted calls for other tech firms, like Amazon and Microsoft, to do the same. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Raisha Doumbia, 20, left and Kai Harris, 17, have turned to TikTok to discuss racial injustice. It comes after TikTok apologized for a "technical glitch" that hid videos related to Black Lives Matter. TikTok screenshots by NPR hide caption
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will consider labeling some posts that break its rules, rather than simply taking them down or leaving them up. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption