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HOTTEST SELLER AT GAMESTOP IS ITS OWN STOCK, $1B RAISED
GameStop raised more than $1 billion in its latest stock sale, capitalizing on a newly arrived and fervent army of online investors.
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Techlife News #504
Techlife News
BUZZFEED TO BECOME A PUBLICLY TRADED COMPANY
Digital media company BuzzFeed is setting its sights on growth. It plans to become a publicly-traded company with an implied value of $1.5 billion through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company.
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Techlife News
‘A Summer Of Freedom': Vaccine Gives New Meaning To July 4th
President Joe Biden wants to imbue Independence Day with new meaning this year by encouraging nationwide celebrations to mark the country’s effective return to normalcy after 16 months of coronavirus pandemic disruption and more than 600,000 lives lost.
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Techlife News #503
Techlife News
US Ends Oil, Gas Lease Sales From Public Land Through June
The U.S. Interior Department is cancelling oil and gas lease sales from public lands through June amid an ongoing review of how the program contributes to climate change, officials said.
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Techlife News
LOUISIANA CREATES RULES FOR SELF-DRIVING DELIVERY DEVICES
Louisiana has created a framework for self-driving delivery robots to drop off packages on the state’s streets, under a bill backed by lawmakers and Gov. John Bel Edwards.
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Techlife News
SELF-DRIVING CAR PIONEER WAYMO GETS $2.5B TO FUEL AMBITIONS
Waymo, the self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google, isn’t allowing a recent wave of executive departures to detour its plans to expand its robotic taxi service.
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Techlife News
HONG KONG WATCHING CHINESE NUCLEAR PLANT AFTER LEAK REPORTED
China’s government said Tuesday no abnormal radiation was detected outside a nuclear power plant near Hong Kong following a news report of a leak, while Hong Kong’s leader said her administration was closely watching the facility.
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Techlife News
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHINA'S NEW SPACE STATION
Adding a crew to China’s new orbiting space station is another major advance for the burgeoning space power.
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Techlife News
CASSILL TO BE PAID IN CRYPTOCURRENCY IN DEAL WITH VOYAGER
Landon Cassill will be the first NASCAR driver paid entirely in cryptocurrency in a sponsorship deal with Voyager that begins at Nashville Superspeedway this weekend.
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Techlife News
INTERNET OUTAGES BRIEFLY DISRUPT ACCESS TO WEBSITES, APPS
A wave of brief internet outages hit the websites and apps of dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe Thursday and Friday.
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Techlife News
CAN YOU MIX AND MATCH COVID-19 VACCINES?
Can you mix and match two-dose COVID-19 vaccines?
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Techlife News
AMAZON ALLOTS $300 MILLION FOR HOUSING NEAR MASS TRANSIT
Amazon is providing $300 million in low-interest loans to support housing located near mass transit in the Washington, D.C., area and the Seattle and Nashville, Tennessee, regions.
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Techlife News
AIRBUS-BOEING DEAL EASES US EU TENSIONS BUT CONFLICTS REMAIN
The deal the United States and the European Union reached this week to end their long-running rift over subsidies to Boeing and Airbus will suspend billions in punitive tariffs. It will ease trans-Atlantic tensions. And it will let the two sides focus on a common economic threat: China.
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Techlife News
SENATE PASSES BILL TO BOOST US TECH INDUSTRY, COUNTER RIVALS
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that aims to boost U.S. semiconductor production and the development of artificial intelligence and other technology in the face of growing international competition, most notably from China.
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Techlife News #502
Techlife News
GLOBAL WAR ON RANSOMWARE? HURDLES HINDER THE US RESPONSE
Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered fuel shortages, and, most recently, threatened global food supply chains.
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Techlife News
SCIENTISTS HAIL GOLDEN AGE TO TRACE BIRD MIGRATION WITH TECH
A plump robin wearing a tiny metal backpack with antenna hops around a suburban yard in Takoma Park then plucks a cicada from the ground for a snack.
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Techlife News
GERMANY STARTS ROLLING OUT A DIGITAL EU VACCINATION PASS
Germany on Thursday started rolling out a digital vaccination pass that can be used across Europe as the continent gets ready for the key summer travel season.
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Techlife News
STARTUP LORDSTOWN MOTORS WARNS IT MAY NOT STAY IN BUSINESS
Startup commercial electric vehicle maker Lordstown Motors says it may not be in business a year from now as it tries to secure funding to start full production of an electric pickup truck.
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Techlife News
OWN AN ECHO? AMAZON MAY BE HELPING ITSELF TO YOUR BANDWIDTH
Do you own an Amazon smart device? If so, odds are good that the company is already sharing your internet connection with your neighbors unless you’ve specifically told it not to.
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Techlife News
FERRARI TAPS EUROPEAN CHIP-MAKER EXECUTIVE AS NEW CEO
Luxury sports carmaker Ferrari has tapped Benedetto Vigna, an Italian executive at Europe’s largest semiconductor chipmaker, as its new CEO, the company announced this week.
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Techlife News
EYING DEAL, GM SOFTENS ON TOUGH STANDARDS FOR CAR POLLUTION
The nation’s largest automaker said Wednesday it can support greenhouse gas emissions limits that other car manufacturers negotiated with California — if they are achieved mostly by promoting sales of fully electric vehicles.
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Techlife News
CHINA SAYS US REVOKING OF CHINA APPS BAN A ‘POSITIVE STEP'
China’s Ministry of Commerce said that a U.S. move to revoke the Trump administration’s executive orders intended to ban apps like TikTok and WeChat was a “positive step,” amid strained relations between the two countries.
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Techlife News
JAPAN'S VACCINE PUSH AHEAD OF OLYMPICS LOOKS TO BE TOO LATE
It may be too little, too late.
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Techlife News
IN POST-PANDEMIC EUROPE, MIGRANTS WILL FACE DIGITAL FORTRESS
As the world begins to travel again, Europe is sending migrants a loud message: Stay away!
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Techlife News
SUPREME COURT LIMITS PROSECUTORS' USE OF ANTI-HACKING LAW
The Supreme Court limited prosecutors’ ability to use an anti-hacking law to charge people with computer crimes.
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Techlife News
SHOPPERS GO BACK TO STORES, BUT RETAILERS FACE CHALLENGES
Americans are going back to one of their favorite pastimes: store shopping.
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Techlife News
GOV'T USE OF CHINESE DRONES IN LIMBO AS CONGRESS WEIGHS BAN
More than a year after the U.S. Interior Department grounded hundreds of Chinese-made drones it was using to track wildfires and monitor dams, volcanoes and wildlife, it’s starting to look like they won’t be flying again any time soon — if ever.
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Techlife News
TWITTER STARTS SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE IN CANADA, AUSTRALIA
Twitter is rolling out a subscription service, starting in Canada and Australia, that offers perks like an undo button for subscribers.
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Techlife News
TECH CALMS DOWN, BUT STILL STRONG AS THE WORLD GOES DIGITAL
Technology company stocks are in rest mode this year, but what may seem like weakness as the economy recovers is really just dormancy.
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Techlife News
IN VISIONS OF POST-PANDEMIC LIFE, ROARING '20S BECKON AGAIN
History repeats itself. But do decades duplicate?
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