Now, the chocolate maker has taken an even bigger step in the fight against global warming, vowing on Wednesday to commit nearly $1 billion over the next few years to tackle what it described as one of “the most urgent threats facing the planet and its people.” “Mars has been in business for four generations and intends to be for the next four generations,” said CEO Grant F.

Now, as rescue efforts continue, people are flocking to gas stations to fill up. But officials say there is no need for alarm. Motiva’s plant in Port Arthur, the nation’s largest refinery, shut down on Wednesday. And on the same day,Colonial Pipelinetemporarilyshut down its major pipeline. Refineries along the state’s coastmake up 15 percentof America’s total oil refining capacity, according to NBC Dallas Fort-Worth.

After two months without a CEO, Uberfinally found someone to put in the driver’s seat. That someone isDara Khosrowshahi, currently CEO of the online travel company Expedia. Uber’s board selected Khosrowshahi on Sunday, reportedly as a compromise choice over Hewitt Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman and GE board chairman Jeff Immelt.

Best Buy apologized on Tuesday for its Houston-area store that raised the price of a case of bottled water to $43 as Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc on the region. Journalist Ken Klippenstein tweeted a photo of a Best Buy in Cypress, Texas, about 30 miles from Houston, selling 24-packs of Dasani water for $42.96, and 12-packs of Smartwater for $29.98. The Texas attorney general’s office received hundreds of Harvey-related price-gouging complaints, Klippenstein reported.

It looks like the new CEO of Uber will be a step up for women at the company, though the bar for success is pretty low. For starters, Khosrowshahi doesn’t work in Silicon Valley. He’s run travel website Expedia in Seattle for more than a decade. The son of Iranian refugees and an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, Khosrowshahi is a well-liked leader who’s been comparatively honest and upfront about Expedia’s shortcomings when it comes to achieving gender balance.

That was the conclusion drawn by two Harvard researchers in a peer-reviewed study published in the journalEnvironmental Research LettersWednesday.

Since its launch in 2013, neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer has thrived online, gaining notoriety as the“top hate site in America” with its racist, homophobic and misogynistic content.But its vulgar and inflammatory response to the recent white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia, has turned the open internet against it.

For the last half-decade, the most exciting, contentious, and downright awe-inspiring topic in technology has been artificial intelligence. Titans and geniuses have lauded AI’s potential for change, glorifying its application in nearly every industry imaginable. Such praise, however, is also met with tantamount disapproval from similar influencers and self-made billionaires, not to mention a good part of Hollywood’s recent sci-fi flicks.

AsJohnson & Johnsonfaces thousands of U.S. lawsuits over potential cancer risks of its talc-based products,a California jury ordered the companyMonday topay $417 million in damages to a terminally ill woman.

Five days after Google fired him for writing a memo questioning the company’s diversity initiatives, James Damore is back. On Friday, the software engineer penned an essay in The Wall Street Journal accusing his former employer of fostering what he calls an “ideological echo chamber,” one inhospitable to people like him who question Google’s prevailing way of thought. A photo atop the essay features Damore clutching a laptop and looking at the camera.