The multibillionaire announced Friday that he is dropping the quiet title lawsuits he filed against hundreds of Kauai landowners to help him acquire their land and make his own 700-acre beachfront estate more private. The lawsuit, known as a “quiet title and partition” is a common way of establishing real estate ownership, and ultimately may lead to a judge ordering the land sold at auction,the Star-Advertiser reported.

Monday’s Google Doodle celebrated the birthday of Fred Korematsu, a Japanese-American who defied government orders to relocate to an internment camp during World War II. In 1942, Korematsu was one of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent who were forced to leave their homes and most of their worldly possessions under Executive Order No. 9066.The order, signed by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) in response to Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor, gave the U.S.

Facebook has taken another small step forward in its battle to limit the proliferation of fake news on the social network. On Wednesday, the company announced that it would begin rolling out a redesigned “trending” modulethat ― at least in theory ― should expose users to more reliably sourced content.

Zuckerberg’s 700-acre property, which the billionaire purchased for more than$100 million in 2014, contains almost a dozen smaller parcels known as “kuleana” lands,according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Local families hold rights to these lands under The Kuleana Act of 1850 and can legally enter Zuckerberg’s estate to reach their parcels.

Samsung Electronics has finally revealed what caused all those Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to catch on fire last year, prompting flight bans and a multi-billion dollar recall. During a press conference in Seoul on Monday, the South Korean electronics giant announced that two separate sets of batteries used in the device had significant design flaws.

A long-awaited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration review of a fatal accident that occurred in May 2016 has concluded the driver’s Tesla Model S, which was in self-driving “Autopilot” mode at the time of the crash, was not defective. As such, the federal agency will not seek a recall of Tesla vehicles. And in what’s surely a rarity, rather than hurt the case for Autopilot, the data NHTSA pulled from Tesla actually makes a pretty compelling argument in its favor.

Cybersecurity is on many people’s minds these days, and yet using “password” as a password is apparently still a thing. The most popular password, making up nearly 17 percent of the 10 million passwords the companyanalyzed, was “123456.” “Password” was also among the top 10 passwords, coming in as the eighth most common. Keeper Security assembled the list using a collection of passwords that were leaked through data breaches in 2016.

The embattled clothing company is closing all of its retail stores and Los Angeles headquarters after its purchase last week by Montreal-based company Gildan Activewear, The Los Angeles Times reported. All 110 American Apparel stores will close by the end of April, with as many as 3,400 employees expected to lose their jobs.

Just eight super-rich men hold the same amount of wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, according to an analysis from the charity Oxfam released Sunday night.

Amazon announced Thursday that it plans to add 100,000 new jobs around the country over the next year and a half. The online retailer said the positions would include all types of jobs, including engineers, software developers and customer service reps, as well as warehouse workers ― in its growing distribution network. The positions would be full-time and come with standard benefits and health care, as opposed to the temp jobs Amazon is known for in the runup to the holidays.