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The future of streaming and movies The future of streaming and movies as “Stranger Things” creators sign with Paramount 03:17 Apple is raising the price of a subscription to its Apple TV+ streaming service for U.S. customers. The technology giant said Thursday that an Apple TV+ subscription will now cost $12.99 a month, up from…

The Detroit Police Department is using facial recognition technology and a network of surveillance cameras to combat the city’s high crime rates. But critics say the technology has racial bias built into it and has even landed innocent people behind bars. In this documentary, CBS Reports explores the debate over high-tech policing that promises to…

Google tapped the star power of Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities on Wednesday to unveil several new products, including the company’s next generation of Pixel phones.  Also participating in the event in Brooklyn, New York, were popular podcast host Alex Cooper, Formula One driver Lando Norris and singer Nick Jonas.  Google’s new suite of products…

PlayStation 5 video game consoles are about to get pricier — at least in the U.S. Starting Aug. 21, the PlayStation 5 will cost $549.99 in the U.S., up $50 from its current price of $549.99, Sony Interactive Entertainment, which makes the device, said Wednesday in a company blog post.  The company attributed the price hike…

How AI is impacting teachers and students in the classroom – CBS News Watch CBS News Artificial intelligence advocates say it can be a helpful tool for both students and teachers, but others say it discourages critical thinking. CBS News’ Nancy Chen shows how AI is impacting classrooms and what’s next.

Nexstar Media will acquire rival broadcast company Tegna for $6.2 billion according to a joint announcement on Tuesday, another sign of consolidation in an already contracting TV broadcast sector. The transaction, if approved, will bring together two major players in U.S. television, expanding Nexstar’s reach in the U.S. television and local news landscape. Nexstar oversees…

With the rise of artificial intelligence, advocates say it can be a helpful tool for kids and teachers — but others say it discourages students from critical thinking. Many educators have been teaching themselves how to use AI. For Jerome Ong, a 5th grade teacher in Ridgewood, New Jersey, AI has changed the way he…

Twenty-two years ago, Silicon Valley executive Henry Evans had a massive stroke that left him mute and paralyzed from the neck down. But that didn’t prevent him from becoming a leading advocate of adaptive robotic tech to help disabled people – or from writing country songs, one letter at a time. Correspondent John Blackstone talks…

For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring the shrinking glaciers in the rugged North Cascade Mountains of Washington State. He’s been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide another view of the drastically-changing landscape, as the effects of human-caused climate change on glaciers becomes even more starkly apparent….

Dr. Joel Bervell, a physician known to his hundreds of thousands of followers on social media as the “Medical Mythbuster,” has built a reputation for debunking false health claims online.  Earlier this year, some of those followers alerted him to a video on another account featuring a man who looked exactly like him. The face…