For the past 20 years, Nike has practiced caution with its basketball stars. Back in the early 2000s, when Michael Jordan was in his final days with the Washington Wizards, Nike and its Jordan brand aggressively marketed young players like Darius Miles and Quentin Richardson. After they failed to achieve stardom, Nike started to exercise more patience.

If you let your imagination run wild in the world of automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding, and you throw in a little fear, uncertainty and doubt, you can come up with several illegal uses for systems such as Alexa Voice Service, Google Home, Siri, and Cortana that will give you pause.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is bringing in its heavy hitters at Super Bowl LI. The beer maker said it would have four spots of least three full minutes of ads during the game on Feb. 5, "complemented by a robust digital strategy." The roster includes Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob Ultra and Busch, the latter making its first Super Bowl appearance.

Ten years after its unveiling, the first-generation iPhone is dead. AT&T confirmed this week that it shut down its 2G wireless network on Jan. 1. For the vast majority of smartphone owners, the change means nothing. But for original iPhone owners who might still fire it up to see how it fares in today's more advanced world, it means the device is rendered useless.

General Motors has agreed to pay a $1 million penalty to settle federal charges that it didn't properly assess the impact of its defective ignition switch scandal on the company's financial statements, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday. The faulty ignition switch is linked to the death of at least 124 people and the injury of 275.

Automotive jobs announcements and billion-dollar U.S. plant investments seem to be dropping out of the sky every other day, and President-elect Donald Trump is claiming credit. In most cases, automakers have been planning the investments for months or for more than a year, predating any significant pressure from Trump.

It's been 15 years since Lexus introduced us to its 2054 concept car in the futuristic film "Minority Report." Now the automaker is back with the "Skyjet," its futuristic aircraft that stars in "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." The Skyjet looks like no Lexus out there-though fans may find some familiar design features in the flying Lexus' grille and headlights.

Nike Inc. celebrated MLK Day by announcing new partnerships with PeacePlayers International and M, organizations dedicated to diversity and inclusion. Terms of the partnerships weren't disclosed. A Nike spokesman said the partnerships are part of more than $5 million Nike expects to give organizations working on equality this year.

Cadbury will roll out a limited-edition Oreo-flavored Creme Eggs in U.S. stores in mid-February. The company has already seen success in the UK with its Cadbury Dairy Milk Egg 'n' Spoon Oreo, and in Canada with a similar version of the product, which comes four to a package and are expected to retail for about 99 cents.

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson wants to package the spirit of childhood sporting events with his new enterprise, Virgin Sport. The company is going to create sports festivals around the world where entire families can come out, bring a picnic, buy a beer or a healthy snack from the food tent, listen to music, and participate in sports.