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BIG-BUSINESS PUSHBACK AGAINST VOTING MEASURES GAINS MOMENTUM
Big business has ratcheted up its objections to proposals that would make it harder to vote, with several hundred companies and executives signing a new statement opposing “any discriminatory legislation.”
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DOGECOIN: THE NEW BITCOIN IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
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Techlife News #487
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$1,400 STIMULUS CHECKS HELPED MARCH RETAIL SALES SOAR 9.8%
Newly vaccinated and armed with $1,400 stimulus checks, Americans went on a spending spree last month, buying new clothes and going out to eat again.
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Techlife News #494
Techlife News
GROUPS: CENSUS PRIVACY TOOL COULD HURT VOTING RIGHTS GOALS
The findings reinforce concerns that differential privacy will lower the quality of the data used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts. They also suggest that the census figures won’t support efforts to protect the power of minority voters and comply with court rulings requiring districts to have equal population numbers.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
LAWMAKERS CALL YOUTUBE KIDS A ‘WASTELAND OF VAPID' CONTENT
A House subcommittee is investigating YouTube Kids, saying the Google-owned video service feeds children inappropriate material in “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content” so it can serve them ads.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
5 HOME REMODELING TRENDS TO WATCH FOR IN 2021
After a year of spending more time at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many homeowners are looking for ways to make their homes fit their new realities.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
PIECE OF SPACEX ROCKET DEBRIS LANDS AT WASHINGTON STATE FARM
A piece of burning rocket debris seen streaking across the Pacific Northwest sky last week crashed on a farm in eastern Washington state, authorities said.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
VOTE COUNTING TO START IN AMAZON UNION ELECTION
Vote counting in the union push at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, is expected to start as early as Thursday, but hundreds of contested ballots could muddy the outcome if it’s a close race.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
HIGH COURT SIDES WITH GOOGLE IN COPYRIGHT FIGHT WITH ORACLE
Technology companies sighed with relief after the Supreme Court sided with Google in a copyright dispute with Oracle. The high court said Google did nothing wrong in copying code to develop the Android operating system now used on most smartphones.
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Techlife News
ELECTRIC CHEVY PICKUP TO GET ESTIMATED 400 MILES PER CHARGE
An electric version of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck will get an estimated 400 miles of range per charge, General Motors says.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
‘TANTALIZING' RESULTS OF 2 EXPERIMENTS DEFY PHYSICS RULEBOOK
Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and thrilled.
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Techlife News
NETFLIX SCORES STREAMING RIGHTS TO NEW TOP SONY FILMS
Netflix further beefed up its film catalog on Thursday in a multi-year deal that will make it the new streaming home to Sony Pictures’ top releases in the U.S.
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Techlife News
CAN BIDEN ADD ENERGY JOBS? HOPE MIXES WITH DOUBT
Good-paying jobs — many of them.
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Techlife News #493
Techlife News
US, CHINA CONSULTED ON SAFETY AS THEIR CRAFTS HEADED TO MARS
As their respective spacecrafts headed to Mars, China and the U.S. held consultations earlier this year in a somewhat unusual series of exchanges between the rivals.
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Techlife News
TAIWAN CHIP MAKER TSMC TO INVEST $100B TO GROW CAPACITY
Major Taiwan computer chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to invest $100 billion in the next three years in expanding its manufacturing capacity and supporting research and development, the company said Thursday.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
STEVEN SPIELBERG'S AMAZING STORIES – WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH APPLE TV+'S NEW SHOW!
Back in 1985, famed director and Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg had his sciencefiction anthology, Amazing Stories, air on NBC from 1985 to 1987.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
SAFETY LAST: RISKY INVESTMENTS SOARED AT START OF 2021
Who needs safety when the world’s about to get back to normal?
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Techlife News
MICROSOFT WINS $22 BILLION DEAL MAKING HEADSETS FOR US ARMY
Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets.
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Techlife News
LAWYERS CLASH OVER $1B HYDROPOWER TRANSMISSION CORRIDOR
Attorneys for conservation organizations and an electric utility clashed this week before a federal appeals court over the adequacy of environmental reviews of a key portion of a power transmission project in western Maine.
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Techlife News
CAN I STILL SPREAD THE CORONAVIRUS AFTER I'M VACCINATED?
Can I still spread the coronavirus after I’m vaccinated?
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
BIG TECH, NEVADA REPAIR SHOPS CLASH OVER ‘RIGHT TO REPAIR'
Trade groups representing big tech companies faced off with independent repair shop owners during a committee hearing in the Nevada Legislature over a proposal that would require manufacturers to give repair shops the ability to fix devices like computers, phones, tablets and printers.
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Techlife News
BIDEN ANNOUNCES HUGE INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN TO ‘WIN THE FUTURE'
President Joe Biden outlined a huge $2.3 trillion plan Wednesday to re-engineer the nation’s infrastructure in what he billed as “a once-in-a-generation investment in America” that would undo his predecessor’s signature legislative achievement — giant tax cuts for corporations — in the process.
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Techlife News #492
Techlife News
ANIMATION COMPANY GOT $49M IN EXCESSIVE TAX CREDITS
Blue Sky Studios, the company behind “Ice Age” and other animated films, received $49 million more in Connecticut state tax credits than it should have, state auditors said in a report released this week.
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Techlife News
TWITTER TO ESTABLISH LEGAL ENTITY IN TURKEY, COMPLY WITH LAW
Twitter has announced it will establish a legal entity in Turkey in order to continue operating in the country, which passed a controversial social media law last year.
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Techlife News #491
Techlife News
REGAL CINEMAS, 2ND LARGEST CHAIN IN US, TO REOPEN IN APRIL
Regal Cinemas, the second largest movie theater chain in the U.S., will reopen beginning April 2, its parent company, Cineworld Group, announced this week.
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Techlife News
TOOL CREATED TO AID CLEANUP FROM MICROSOFT HACK IN BROAD USE
A tool designed to help businesses protect themselves from further compromises after a global hack of Microsoft email server software has been downloaded more than 25,000 times since it was released last week, the White House’s National Security Council said this week.
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Techlife News
TEXTING 911 NOW AN OPTION IN SOUTH DAKOTA
South Dakotans now have the option to text 911 when they’re unable to make a 911 call.
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Techlife News
AUTO INDUSTRY BRACES FOR MORE CHIP SHORTAGES AFTER FIRE
A fire at a plant owned by Japanese chipmaker Renesas could deepen the ongoing global semiconductor shortage that has especially hampered automobile production.
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Techlife News
‘60 MINUTES' WILL HAVE STREAMING SPINOFF ON PARAMOUNT+
CBS News is launching a streaming version of “60 Minutes” on the new Paramount+ service, hoping to expose the durable brand to a younger and more diverse audience.
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Techlife News
FORMER GOOGLE CEO GIVES $150M FOR RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY, AI
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, have given $150 million to a research institute to establish a “new era of biology” aimed at battling diseases with a mix of data and life science studies.
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