Twitter's board of directors says it adopted a so-called "poison pill" defense in order to protect the social media platform from coercive or unfair takeover tactics.

Apple and Google have released long-awaited smartphone technology to notify people automatically if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. The new technology is described as fixing problems in similar apps, such as not working across borders and draining users' phone batteries.

For comedic effect, I showed these trailers to my Diet Coke-loving, decorative-wooden-duck-owning mother and gauged her reaction.