Procter & Gamble skincare brand Olay said Wednesday it will stop retouching skin in its advertising by 2021. Olay works with ad agency Badger & Winters, which made Olay’s recent Super Bowl ad featuring all women. The “Skin Promise” will expand to all of the brand’s ads on print, digital, out-of-home and with influencer partners by 2021. But in the years since, some companies have been moving away from altered photos in their ad imagery. CVS Pharmacy said in January 2018 it would require disclosu

Thomas Kurian, CEO of Alphabet’s Google Cloud, speaks at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco on April 9, 2019. Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has purchased yet another company, and this time it’s targeting mainframe customers. Google Cloud announced Tuesday that it has acquired Cornerstone Technology, which Google says will migrate customers’ mainframe workloads to Google Cloud. The latest acquisition will help the company “modernize” customers’ infrastructure and applications on G

Federal Reserve officials expressed confidence at their most recent meeting about the state of the U.S. economy and figured interest rates likely would remain unchanged for a while, according to minutes released Wednesday. That comes even as financial markets are pricing in a near-certainty of at least one cut this year and possibly two. “They expected economic growth to continue at a moderate pace, supported by accommodative monetary and financial conditions,” the minutes said. Nonetheless, unc

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at court in London on May 1, 2019 to be sentenced for bail violation. President Donald Trump offered a pardon through an intermediary to Julian Assange if the WikiLeaks chief agreed to say that Russia was not involved in hacking emails from Democrats during the 2016 presidential election, a lawyer for Assange reportedly told a court in London on Wednesday. At the time, Rohrabacher told The Hill that “Our three-hour meeting covered a wide array of issues,

President Donald Trump on Wednesday retweeted claims that he is “the victim” of a Justice Department conspiracy, hours after reports that the department’s chief official has threatened to quit if the president continues such criticism. A tweet Trump promoted to his nearly 73 million followers also said that Attorney General William “Barr should clean house” at the Justice Department — and argued that Trump “can also appoint a special counsel directly” to investigate the purported conspiracy agai

Animal Crossing: New Horizons will still have a museum to fill up, despite being set on a deserted island. It was unlikely that Nintendo was going to cut such an important part of the Animal Crossing series out of New Horizons, but it’s nice to get some confirmation. For those who don’t know, past Animal Crossing games have had museums run by a delightful owl named Blathers. As you donate different things to the museum, Blathers will display it in his museum. Animal Crossing: New Horizons launch

The PlayStation Store is offering discounts on some of its best games with the new PlayStation Essentials sale. The sale is specifically focused on critically acclaimed games, and includes some of the best PS4 games of the last few years. The sale also includes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which came out at the end of last year. Fallen Order is $44.99 (down from its normal price of $59.99). For a full look at the games included in Sony’s PlayStation Essentials sale you can check out the PlaySta

Star Wars fans anxiously awaiting a Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker rewatch won’t have to wait much longer: The final installment in the Skywalker Saga is coming to home video in March, Lucasfilm announced on Wednesday. Blu-ray and DVD copies will hit shelves on March 31, while digital copies will hit digital shelves two weeks earlier, on March 17. (Home releases of The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, and all three Star Wars prequels also featured making-of documentaries.) The digital release has

The team behind Homeworld 3, Blackbird Interactive, has a second game coming to early access this summer. Blackbird used something very similar as the original title for a very different video game. It was a game that ultimately led to the studio’s return to its roots in the Homeworld franchise. Now a proper real-time strategy game, it would go on to become one of the best examples of the genre made in the last decade. The new Shipbreakers is quite the departure from that original “social strate

Sony will no longer be participating at PAX East in Boston this year, due to concerns related to COVID-19, 2020’s novel coronavirus. “Today, Sony Interactive Entertainment made the decision to cancel its participation at PAX East in Boston this year due to increasing concerns related to COVID-19 (also known as ‘novel coronavirus’). This event was also scheduled to be the first public showing for The Last of Us Part 2. Polygon has reached out to both Sony and PAX organizers for comment. When reac

Huawei USA security chief: ‘We need to have a transparency initiative’Andy Purdy, chief security officer of Huawei USA, tells “Squawk Box” that the Chinese technology giant needs to have a transparency initiative, a day after a federal judge dismissed the company’s challenge to a U.S. federal law.

Sa El, 35, says the key to fluctuating income is keeping money from leaking out. To weather a simultaneous income cut and spending spike, people need about six weeks of take-home income, according to J.P. Morgan Chase Institute. This system means that El never knows what his income actually is until six months after a sale. Here’s how to smooth out the jagged edges of an up-and-down income. He recommends taking a hard look at invisible spending, which he compares to getting rid of things you don

In starting a small business, many entrepreneurs feel the need to do it all. However, the do-it-yourself mindset can quickly become a significant barrier to success, as many entrepreneurs have difficulty delegating and outsourcing once their business grows. Becoming a successful entrepreneur often requires a dramatic shift in mindset. Relying on experts is normal and expected in successful business and high-net-worth circles. For those who are new to the game or grew-up in less well off socioeco

Dow futures were up by 91 points, indicating a gain of more than 80 points to start off Wednesday’s session. S&P 500 futures also traded higher while Nasdaq 100 futures pointed to a record high for the tech-heavy index. Number of new coronavirus cases slows downChina’s National Health Commission reported 1,749 additional cases of coronavirus, the lowest number of newly confirmed cases since Jan. 29. Excluding the Hubei region in China, new coronavirus cases have fallen for 15 straight days. Sand

Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the company’s event at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images

U.S. homebuilding fell less than expected in January while permits surged to a near 13-year high, pointing to sustained housing market strength amid lower mortgage rates. Housing starts dropped 3.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.567 million units last month, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast housing starts falling to a pace of 1.425 million units in January. Single-family housing starts accelerated in the Northeast and West, but tumb

Virgin Galactic has rocketed nearly 200% higher this year, outpacing even Tesla’s 105% rally for the honor of hottest stock on the market. “The stock price is just moving at a hypersonic pace,” Mark Tepper, president of Strategic Wealth Partners, said on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Tuesday. “I see a stock that’s trading in hype similar to Tesla, but without the revenues to back it up and then the stock goes up and shorts are getting crushed and that takes the price up even higher,” said Tepper. H

Now, the billionaire financier and media mogul will be a new presence on the Democratic debate stage on Wednesday night. In addition to Bloomberg, Sanders and Biden, the other candidates who will appear on the debate stage are former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sens. Sanders is hoping that doing well with Hispanic and young voters in Nevada can solidify his newfound front-runner status. Bloomberg, meanwhile, who has not appeared before on the Democratic debate stage and has yet

For tech companies, the law represents the internet’s founding values of openness and free expression, while also allowing them to remove the most insidious speech without stumbling into a legal minefield. The law allows for companies to engage in “good Samaritan” moderation of “objectionable” material without being treated like a publisher or speaker under the law. Once a way to protect upstart tech firms, the law now provides a legal shield to some of the most valuable companies in the world.

The chief security officer of Huawei USA said Wednesday the Chinese technology giant needs to have a transparency initiative now that a judge dismissed the company’s challenge to a federal law. Last May, the Trump administration placed Huawei and dozens of other Chinese firms on the Commerce Department’s so-called entity list, citing national security concerns. Huawei, the largest privately held company in China, has repeatedly said it would never help the Chinese government to spy. “There’s no