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BOEING CAPSULE LANDS BACK ON EARTH AFTER SPACE SHAKEDOWN
Boeing’s crew taxi returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Wednesday, completing a repeat test flight before NASA astronauts climb aboard.
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May 28, 2022
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CANADA BANS CHINA'S HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES FROM 5G NETWORKS
Wireless carriers in Canada won’t be allowed to install Huawei equipment in their high-speed 5G networks, the Canadian government said, joining allies in banning the giant Chinese technology company.
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May 28, 2022
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HYUNDAI ANNOUNCES $5.5B ELECTRIC VEHICLE PLANT IN GEORGIA
Hyundai Motor Group confirmed the company will spend $5.5 billion on a huge electric vehicle plant near Savannah that will employ thousands — a deal Georgia’s governor called the largest economic development project in the state’s history.
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May 28, 2022
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TWITTER TO PAY $150M PENALTY OVER PRIVACY OF USERS' DATA
Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span.
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May 28, 2022
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MUSK WARS WITH TWITTER OVER HIS BUYOUT DEAL - ON TWITTER
Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised that taking over Twitter would enable him to rid the social media platform of its annoying “spam bots.” Now he’s arguing — without presenting any evidence — that there might be just too many of those automated accounts for the $44 billion deal to move ahead.
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May 21, 2022
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MCDONALD'S ERA IN RUSSIA COMING TO A CLOSE, RESTAURANTS SOLD
McDonald’s is selling all of its restaurants in Russia 30 years after the burger chain became a powerful symbol of easing Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union.
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May 21, 2022
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HARLEY-DAVIDSON SUSPENDS PRODUCTION FOR 2 WEEKS, SHARES FALL
Harley-Davidson announced a two-week suspension of vehicle assembly and most shipments, citing a regulatory compliance issue with one of its suppliers.
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May 21, 2022
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CONSUMERS SHIFT AGAIN, FLUMMOXING BIG RETAILERS LIKE TARGET
The pandemic vastly changed the way Americans spend money and now as they return to pre-pandemic behavior, they’re tripping up retailers again.
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May 21, 2022
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CONGRESS DIVES INTO UFOS, BUT NO SIGNS OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS
Congress held its first hearing in half a century on unidentified flying objects. And no, there is still no government confirmation of extraterrestrial life.
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May 21, 2022
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NY AGENCY FILES DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT AGAINST AMAZON
A state agency in New York has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant discriminated against pregnant and disabled workers by denying them “reasonable accommodations” and forcing them to take unpaid leave, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this week.
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May 21, 2022
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GOOGLE'S RUSSIAN BUSINESS PLANS TO FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY
Google says its Russian subsidiary is planning to file for bankruptcy because it can’t pay staff and suppliers.
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May 21, 2022
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PARK OUTDOORS: FORD RECALLS SUVS DUE TO ENGINE FIRE RISK
Ford is asking the owners of 350,000 vehicles in to take them to dealers for repairs in three recalls, including about 39,000 that should be parked outdoors because the engines can catch fire.
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May 21, 2022
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A Bear Market May Be on the Horizon. Here's What That Means
Investors on Wall Street need a place to hide.
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May 21, 2022
Techlife News
Dusty Demise for Nasa Mars Lander in July; Power Dwindling
A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise.
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May 21, 2022
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‘Twitter Philanthropy' Reveals Chasms in Social Safety Net
Single father Billy Price was already struggling to make ends meet before someone broke into his Michigan storage unit, stole his identity and ruined his credit.
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May 21, 2022
Mother Jones
Door Dashed
Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?
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May/June 2022
Techlife News
SCIENTISTS GROW PLANTS IN LUNAR DIRT, NEXT STOP MOON
For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.
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May 14, 2022
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GOOGLE ADOPTS AN APPLE-LIKE APPROACH FOR ITS PIXEL PRODUCTS
Google took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array of trendsetting devices.
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May 14, 2022
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COINBASE LOSES HALF ITS VALUE IN A WEEK AS CRYPTO SLUMPS
Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase has lost half its value in the past week, including its biggest one-day drop 5o date on Wednesday as the famously volatile crypto market weathers yet another slump.
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May 14, 2022
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CRYPTO COMES TO WASHINGTON. WILL THE MILLIONS BUY INFLUENCE?
Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious, well-financed group started buying television ads last month in her highly competitive southern Indiana congressional race.
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May 14, 2022
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GOOGLE GETS MORE MULTILINGUAL, BUT WILL IT GET THE NUANCE?
About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was long all but impossible.
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May 14, 2022
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SEC: NVIDIA FAILED TO DISCLOSE CRYPTO AS REVENUE GENERATOR
Nvidia, a major tech company that has expanded aggressively into gaming, will pay a $5.5 million penalty for failing to disclose that crypto-mining was a significant source of revenue growth from the sale of graphics processing units that were produced and marketed for gaming.
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May 14, 2022
Techlife News
MS. PAC-MAN CLEARS PATH TO WORLD VIDEO GAME HALL OF FAME
More than 40 years after blazing a trail for female video game characters, Ms. Pac-Man was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, along with Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Sid Meier’s Civilization.
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May 14, 2022
Techlife News
GOOGLE STRIKES CONTENT DEALS WITH 300 EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS
Google said that it struck licensing deals with 300 news publishers in Europe in its latest effort to comply with a recently introduced European Union copyright law.
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May 14, 2022
AppleMagazine
CALIFORNIA LAYS OUT PLAN TO DRASTICALLY CUT FOSSIL FUEL USE
New homes built in California starting in 2026 need to be powered by all-electric furnaces, stoves and other appliances if California is to meet its ambitious climate change goals over the next two decades, according to a state pollution-reduction plan released this week.
3 min |
May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
THE HEART OF THE HOME GETS NEW COLOR, CUBBIES, CONNECTIVITY
As French chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud puts it, “Kitchens should be designed around what’s truly important — fun, food, and life.”
5 min |
May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
DETAILED ‘OPEN SOURCE' NEWS INVESTIGATIONS ARE CATCHING ON
One of the more striking pieces of journalism from the Ukraine war featured intercepted radio transmissions from Russian soldiers indicating an invasion in disarray, their conversations even interrupted by a hacker literally whistling “Dixie.”
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May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
HOW TO AVOID ‘RUG PULLS,' THE LATEST CRYPTOCURRENCY SCAM
A new type of scam has emerged in the hype-filled world of cryptocurrency: the “rug pull.”
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May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
EA SPORTS AND FIFA END PARTNERSHIP, BOTH EYE NEW VIDEO GAMES
Electronic Arts will stop making its hugely successful FIFA video game in its current name, marking a split in one of soccer’s most successful and lucrative partnerships after the sides failed to strike a new licensing deal.
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May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
FACE-SCANNER CLEARVIEW AGREES TO LIMITS IN COURT SETTLEMENT
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has agreed to restrict the use of its massive collection of face images to settle allegations that it collected people’s photos without their consent.
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