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This image released by Nintendo shows a scene from the video game, "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." (Nintendo via AP)
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Transformers and cut up power poles are stored on the parking lot of Little Caesars Pizza on East Main Street in Oak Hill, W. Va., Thursday, March 2, 2017. Appalachian Power said on its website that more than 55,000 customers were without electricity late Thursday morning in southern West Virginia. That included nearly 11,000 in Fayette County and 9,000 in Kanawha County. (Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald)
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Workers evaluate the scene on East Main Street in Oak Hill, W. Va., where six power poles went down after a group of powerful storms pushed their way across the state. Appalachian Power said on its website that more than 55,000 customers were without electricity late Thursday morning in southern West Virginia. That included nearly 11,000 in Fayette County and 9,000 in Kanawha County. (Rick Barbero /The Register-Herald via AP)
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This Wednesday, March 1, 2017, photo shows an exterior view of the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. A combative CEO leading a fast-growing company with ambitions to dominate ride-hailing across the globe gave rise to Uber’s latest public image nightmare, a videotaped clash with a driver over prices that’s become a viral video. The argument illustrates how Uber’s thirst to grow by cutting prices to weaken competition conflicts with the needs of its 400,000 drivers who have seen their income fall. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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The New York Stock Exchange is prepared for the IPO of Snap Inc., Thursday, March 2, 2017. The company behind the popular messaging app Snapchat is expected to start trading Thursday after a better-than-expected stock offering. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, file photo, Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference, in San Francisco. Yahoo is punishing Mayer and jettisoning its top lawyer for the mishandling of two security breaches that exposed the personal information of more than 1 billion users and already have cost the company $350 million so far. Mayer won't be paid her annual bonus nor receive a potentially lucrative stock award because a Yahoo investigation concluded her management team reacted too slowly to one breach discovered in 2014. General counsel Ronald Bell resigned without severance pay. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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Brad Pitt and his wardrobe co-star in "Allied," now available on 4K Ultra HD from Paramount Home Entertainment.
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Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel poses for a photo in Los Angeles in this Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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A video shows a Russian pilot flight-testing a jet equipped with a helmet mount from what analysts say appears to be for a GoPro video camera. The U.S. Navy has been slow to adopt the technology. (Russian Defense Ministry)
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In this Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, file photo, a model puts the controller onto the Nintendo Switch during a presentation event of the new Nintendo Switch in Tokyo. Nintendo’s new Switch device aims at video gamers who like to play both at home and on the road. It’s an impressive device, notwithstanding trade-offs in appealing to both. The bigger question is whether Nintendo will be able to deliver enough games to keep Switch users happy. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
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A data breach of a line of stuffed animals resulted in millions of personalized audio messages meant only to be heard by parents and their children being publicly exposed on the internet. (cloudpets.com)
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In this Jan. 31, 2017 photo, Streamwood High School students work to design a micro generator using wind power to light up areas around homeless shelters, at the school in Streamwood, Ill., Their wind-powered generator idea won the state competition in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, which encourages teachers and students to solve real-world issues using classroom skills in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. (John Starks/Daily Herald, via AP)
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In this Jan. 20, 2017 photo, Streamwood High School students start to cut their initial design of a micro generator using wind power to light up areas around homeless shelters, at the school in Streamwood, Ill. Their wind-powered generator idea won the state competition in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, which encourages teachers and students to solve real-world issues using classroom skills in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald, via AP)
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In this Jan. 20, 2017 photo, Streamwood High School students work to design a micro generator using wind power to light up areas around homeless shelters, at the school in Streamwood, Ill., Their wind-powered generator idea won the state competition in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, which encourages teachers and students to solve real-world issues using classroom skills in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald, via AP)
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In this Jan. 20, 2017 photo, teacher Matt Erbach explains to his students what he is looking for as the group of Streamwood High School students in Streamwood, Ill., design a micro generator using wind power to light up areas around homeless shelters. Their wind-powered generator idea won the state competition in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, which encourages teachers and students to solve real-world issues using classroom skills in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. (Brian Hill/Daily Herald, via AP)
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This image provided by Facebook shows a demonstration of live reporter support, an example of one of the company's suicide prevention tools. Facebook is beefing up its suicide prevention tools, adding ways for crisis workers to reach out to people through Messenger. It’s also adding options for people to report if someone might harm themselves while broadcasting on Facebook Live and is streamlining the process to report posts about suicide or self-injury. Facebook has had suicide prevention tools for more than a decade. (Facebook via AP)
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This image provided by Facebook shows a demonstration of live broadcaster support, an example of one of the company's suicide prevention tools. Facebook is beefing up its suicide prevention tools, adding ways for crisis workers to reach out to people through Messenger. It’s also adding options for people to report if someone might harm themselves while broadcasting on Facebook Live and is streamlining the process to report posts about suicide or self-injury. Facebook has had suicide prevention tools for more than a decade. (Facebook via AP)
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Chief Business Officer Robert Kuncl, with a graphic showing the many networks that will be carried, speaks during the introduction of YouTube TV at YouTube Space LA in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. People fed up with paying for cable the traditional way will soon be able to subscribe to it from YouTube. The Google-owned site known for cat videos and do-it-yourself makeup tutorials is the latest company to offer a version of cable that looks and feels more like Netflix. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Christian Oestlien, director of product management at YouTube, speaks during the introduction of YouTube TV at YouTube Space LA in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. People fed up with paying for cable the traditional way will soon be able to subscribe to it from YouTube. The Google-owned site known for cat videos and do-it-yourself makeup tutorials is the latest company to offer a version of cable that looks and feels more like Netflix. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
