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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.
2 min |
May 21, 2022
Techlife News
A Bear Market May Be on the Horizon. Here's What That Means
Investors on Wall Street need a place to hide.
5 min |
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.
2 min |
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.
6 min |
May 21, 2022
Mother Jones
Door Dashed
Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?
3 min |
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.
2 min |
May 14, 2022
Techlife News
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.
4 min |
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.
2 min |
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.
7 min |
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.
5 min |
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.
1 min |
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.”
5 min |
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.”
3 min |
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.
2 min |
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.
4 min |
May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
THOUSANDS OF SMARTPHONES PURCHASED BY VA WENT UNUSED
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wasted nearly $2 million when most of the smartphones bought during the pandemic for homeless veterans went unused, according to an inspector general’s report.
2 min |
May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
‘Doctor Strange 2' Gets Weirder, Scarier, Messier
Once a superhero franchise goes multiverse, it’s hard to go back.
4 min |
May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
Self Service Repair
Empowering consumers to fix their devices
5 min |
May 13, 2022
AppleMagazine
Amazon Fires 2 Union Organizers Tied to First U.S. Labor Win
Amazon has fired two employees with ties to the grassroots union that led the first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history.
2 min |
May 13, 2022
Techlife News
NASA CLIMATE RESEARCH SCIENTIST WINS WORLD FOOD PRIZE
A NASA climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate was awarded the World Food Prize on Thursday.
4 min |
May 07, 2022
Techlife News
CDC RESTATES RECOMMENDATION FOR MASKS ON PLANES, TRAINS
US health officials this week restated their recommendation that Americans wear masks on planes, trains and buses, despite a court ruling last month that struck down a national mask mandate on public transportation.
1 min |
May 07, 2022
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ELON MUSK ASKED TO TESTIFY ON TWITTER BY UK PARLIAMENT
A British parliamentary committee scrutinizing draft online safety legislation has invited Elon Musk to discuss his plans to buy Twitter and the changes he’s proposing for the social media platform.
1 min |
May 07, 2022
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IDAHO NEEDS TO SHORE UP CYBERSECURITY, TASK FORCE SAYS
Idaho needs to be better prepared to defend against inevitable cyberattacks that could harm individuals, businesses and critical infrastructure, the Governor’s Cybersecurity Task Force said in a report released this week.
2 min |
May 07, 2022
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MUSK GETS $7B BACKING FOR TWITTER BID FROM TECH HEAVYWEIGHTS
Billionaire Elon Musk has strengthened the equity stake of his offer to buy Twitter with commitments of more than $7 billion from a range of investors, including Silicon Valley heavy hitters like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.
2 min |
May 07, 2022
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CALIFORNIA MOVES TO EMBRACE CRYPTOCURRENCY AND REGULATE IT
California, which has a economy larger than all but four countries and where much of the world’s technological innovation is born, on Wednesday became the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to cryptocurrency and related innovations.
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