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The San Francisco Bay Area awoke to darkened orange and yellow skies Wednesday as smoke from raging fires across the West rose into the upper atmosphere and blotted out the sun. 

The announcement comes as the presidential campaigns are now pushing into the final two months of the race, NBC News reports.

Twitter on Thursday announced a new policy to remove or label any tweets containing false information that are intended to undermine public confidence in elections and civic processes, including the 2020 U.S. election. 

No reason was given, but sources told Reuters they believed it was because of the overseas backlash over the film's links to Xinjiang.

“Buy now, pay later” is becoming increasingly popular for merchants and payment companies such as PayPal and Microsoft.

The move extends a tech partnership the NFL has had with Microsoft since 2013.

The hacking attempts targeted staff at Washington-based SKDKnickerbocker, a campaign strategy and communications firm working with Biden and other prominent Democrats, over the past two months.

Are two screens better than the lack of 5G, mobile payments, water resistance, a good camera, wireless charging, more storage and other things you can get from a cheaper phone? For most people, the bad camera alone probably isn't worth it. But, after using it for a few weeks, I have this weird lingering love for the Surface Duo that keeps bringing me back to it. It's so unique.

This year's fall product launch will be a major test for Apple, which uses its fall product launches to generate demand for its new products ahead of the crucial holiday quarter.

"We do think that it is important that there be a revisit and not a repeal of Section 230," Sen. Marsha Blackburn told CNBC.

NFL partners like Frito-Lay, Oakley, TurboTax and Verizon are looking ahead to a football season that will be very different than normal.

Ireland's data regulator has reportedly sent Facebook a preliminary order to stop transferring user data from the EU to the U.S..

Huawei launched the second version of its own operating system on Thursday, pushing it to third-party device makers as it looks to find create a viable alternative to Google's Android. 

The internet search giant is in discussions with investors to raise up to $2 billion over three years for a new biotech firm, a person close to the matter told CNBC.

Over the past 12 months, Facebook has frustrated users and employees with its haphazard enforcement of free speech policies. The consequences could be dire.

ByteDance is nearing the deadline that the White House set for the Chinese-owned company to sell TikTok's U.S. assets or be shut down. 

Alexander's appointment comes at a critical time for Amazon, which is still locked in a battle with Microsoft over the Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract.

In updated prospectus on Wednesday, Palantir said it has 1.64 billion shares outstanding as of Sept. 1, which indicates a valuation of about $10.5 billion.

Grail spun out of Illumina in 2015 and has a long-term agreement that requires Grail to give a small percentage of its revenue, whenever it comes, to Illumina.

Investors have debated whether Netflix is a media or technology company for more than a decade. Now, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gives an answer -- it's an entertainment company.