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FILE - Travelers, Kerri Ann Salomon, left, and a friend arriving from New York City, look for an Uber ride at Los Angeles InternationalAirport, in this Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, file photo. Uber is trying to lure drivers with sign-up bonuses and other incentives as it faces record demand for rides and meal delivery. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said Monday, April 12, 2021, that its bookings reached an all-time monthly high in March. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Drivers wanted: Record demand at Uber as vaccinations rise

Drivers wanted: Record demand at Uber as vaccinations rise
FILE - Travelers, Kerri Ann Salomon, left, and a friend arriving from New York City, look for an Uber ride at Los Angeles InternationalAirport, in this Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, file photo. Uber is trying to lure drivers with sign-up bonuses and other incentives as it faces record demand for rides and meal delivery. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said Monday, April 12, 2021, that its bookings reached an all-time monthly high in March. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Microsoft buying speech recognition firm Nuance in $16B deal
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, people walk near a Microsoft office in New York. Microsoft, on an accelerated growth push, is buying speech recognition company Nuance in a deal worth $19.7 billion including debt. (AP Photo/Swayne B. Hall, File)
Biden names 2 ex-NSA officials for senior cyber positions
FILE - In this June 8, 2013 file photo, Chris Inglis, then deputy director of the National Security Agency testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Inglis is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Chinese regulator orders Ant Group to conduct major overhaul
FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2020, file photo, a view of the signage of Ant Group is seen at the headquarters compound of the fintech giant in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Chinese regulators have ordered Alibaba Group Holding's financial affiliate Ant Group to become a financial holding company that could be regulated more stringently and cease anti-competitive behavior, months after its record initial public offering was halted.(Chinatopix Via AP, File)
Microsoft, on growth push, to buy speech recognition company Nuance for about $16 billion

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FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 file photo, the sun sets over a statue of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From a giant statue towering over Moscow to a more modest monument on the Sakhalin Island in the Pacific Ocean, dozens of memorials across Russia commemorate Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut who became the first person in space on April 12, 1961, 60 years ago. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
AP PHOTOS: From Moscow to Pacific, Russia glorifies Gagarin
FILE - In this undated file photo, Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin, first man to orbit the earth, is shown in his space suit. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space 60 years ago. The successful one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 made the 27-year-old Gagarin a national hero and cemented Soviet supremacy in space until the United States put a man on the moon more than eight years later. (AP Photo/File)
Soviet cosmonaut made pioneering spaceflight 60 years ago
Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) workers Gabrielle Carlos, top, and Joao Vericimo, move a COVID-19 patient to an ambulance as he is transferred to a municipal hospital dedicated to COVID-19 in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Brazil's virus outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags
In this undated handout photograph from the United Arab Emirates' state-run WAM news agency, newly named Emirati astronauts Mohammed al-Mulla, left, and Noura al-Matroushi, right, pose for a photo. The United Arab Emirates named the next two astronauts in its space program Saturday, April 10, 2021, including the country's first female astronaut. (WAM via AP)
United Arab Emirates names 2 new astronauts, including woman
CEOs gather to speak out against voting law changes
FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2021, file photo, voters wait in line to cast their ballots in Georgia's Senate runoff election in Atlanta. A number of top executives and corporate leaders gathered online this weekend to discuss what to do in response to changes to some state voting laws, according to multiple news reports, Sunday, April 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, file)
Son racially abused online after Tottenham loses to Man U
Tottenham's Son Heung-min, left, is challenged by Manchester United's Aaron Wan-Bissaka during the English Premier League soccer match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Sunday, April 11, 2021. (Clive Rose/Pool via AP)
Some GOP-led states target abortions done through medication
FILE - This Sept. 22, 2010 file photo shows bottles of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 in Des Moines, Iowa. In 2021, about 40% of all abortions in the U.S. are now done through medication - rather than surgery - and that option has become all the more pivotal during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
After Amazon: Labor tries to regroup in wake of Alabama loss
FILE - In this Tuesday, March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. Amazon workers voted against forming a union, Friday, April 9, in Alabama, handing the online retail giant a decisive victory and cutting off a path that labor activists had hoped would lead to similar efforts throughout the company and beyond. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
Amazon warehouse workers reject union bid in Alabama
FILE - In this Tuesday, March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. Amazon workers voted against forming a union, Friday, April 9, in Alabama, handing the online retail giant a decisive victory and cutting off a path that labor activists had hoped would lead to similar efforts throughout the company and beyond. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
Study: Facebook delivers biased job ads, skewed by gender
FILE - This July 30, 2019 photo shows an update information of Facebook application on a mobile phone displayed at a store in Chicago. Facebook is showing different job ads to women and men in a way that might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws, according to a new study. University of Southern California researchers who examined the ad-delivery algorithms of Facebook and LinkedIn found that Facebook's were skewed by gender beyond what can be legally justified by differences in job qualifications. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky, File
Hackers try to extort University of Colorado in cyberattack
Verizon recalls mobile hotspots sold to schools, in stores
Pinterest establishes legal entity in Turkey to avoid bans
Chipmaker TSMC says revenue up 16.7% as demand surges
FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2005, file photo the logo of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is displayed during a third quarter press conference in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's biggest contract producer of processor chips, said Friday, April 9, 2021, its revenue rose 16.7% in the latest quarter over a year ago as the global economy rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic.(AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)
Loud debates, fun banter: Mideast finds outlet in Clubhouse
Diana Moukalled, a Lebanese journalist who closely follows social media checks the Clubhouse application, at her office in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Hundreds of thousands of people in the Arab world are turning to Clubhouse, the fast-growing audio chat app, to mock and vent against longtime rulers, and debate sensitive issues from abortion to sexual harassment. But concerns are mounting that the open space could quickly come under the same government surveillance or censorship as other social media. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
US sanctions Chinese computer makers in widening tech fight
A woman walks in the hallway of the National Supercomputer Center in Wuxi, which hosts the Shenwei (Sunway) TaihuLight supercomputer, in Wuxi in eastern China's Jiangsu province on Aug. 29, 2020. The Biden administration has added seven Chinese supercomputer research labs and manufacturers to a U.S. export blacklist in a spreading conflict with Beijing over technology and security. (Chinatopix via AP)
EXPLAINER: Starving for more chips in a tech-hungry world
In this aerial photo, mid-sized pickup trucks and full-size vans are seen in a parking lot outside a General Motors assembly plant where they are produced Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Wentzville, Mo. As the U.S. economy awakens from its pandemic-induced slumber, a vital cog is in short supply: the computer chips that power our cars and other vehicles, and a vast number of other items we take for granted. Ford, GM and Stellantis have started building vehicles without some computers, putting them in storage with plans to retrofit them later. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
EXPLAINER: Courtroom technology on display in Chauvin trial
FILE - In this May 25, 2020 file image from Minneapolis city surveillance video, Minneapolis police are seen attempting to take George Floyd into custody in Minneapolis, Minn. The video was shown as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presided on Monday, March 29, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, in the death of Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)
Amazon takes early lead as union vote count gets underway
FILE - In this Tuesday, March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. Vote counting in the union push in Bessemer is expected to start as early as Thursday, April 8, but hundreds of contested ballots could muddy the outcome if it's a close race. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)
Chip shortage forces more production cuts by GM, Ford
In this aerial photo, mid-sized pickup trucks and full-size vans are seen in a parking lot outside a General Motors assembly plant where they are produced Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Wentzville, Mo. The global shortage of semiconductors is forcing General Motors to further cut production at six North American factories as chip supplies seem to be growing tighter. The shutdowns likely will crimp dealer inventory of vehicles made at the plants, but GM says it has managed to keep factories humming that make hot-selling and profitable full-size pickup trucks and SUVs. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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