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Russia's War Spurs Corporate Exodus, Exposes Business Risks

Auto shipments stopped, beer stopped flowing, cargo ships dropped port calls and oil companies cut their pipelines.

6 Ways Technology Is Evolving Travel in 2022

For the athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, travel entailed … robots. Everywhere. These machines prepared and served noodles, rice and burgers, and roamed hallways to take the temperatures of passersby.

Big Tech Grapples With Russian State Media, Propaganda

As Russia’s war in Ukraine plays out for the world on social media, big tech platforms are moving to restrict Russian state media from using their platforms to spread propaganda and misinformation.

AMAZON TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEAR TRANSIT STOPS

Amazon said it will spend more than $120 million to build affordable-housing units close to transit stations near Seattle and Washington, D.C, the latest example of a tech company trying to address the affordable housing crisis critics say the industry has exacerbated.

BARCELONA STADIUM BECOMES SPOTIFY CAMP NOU UNDER SPONSORSHIP

Barcelona is teaming up with Spotify — and changing its stadium name — to ease some of the financial struggles that hindered the Spanish club recently.

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CHIPMAKER INTEL DETAILS $150 MILLION EDUCATION INVESTMENT

Chipmaker Intel outlined $150 million in educational funding aimed at growing the workforce for the semiconductor industry, as part of its $20 billion investment in a production hub in Ohio.

BIG BATCH OF SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS APPROVED IN VIRGINIA

Dominion Energy has received regulatory approval in Virginia for a series of solar projects expected to generate enough power to light up 250,000 homes.

CNN+ STREAMS START MARCH 29; MSNBC TO STREAM PROGRAMMING

The CNN+ paid streaming service will debut March 29 with programming headlined by network stars like Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper, along with poached personalities Audie Cornish, Kasie Hunt and Chris Wallace.

INTEL UNVEILS $88B CHIPMAKING EXPANSION PLAN FOR EUROPE

U.S. chipmaker Intel unveiled plans this week to invest up to 80 billion euros ($88 billion) across Europe as part of an ambitious expansion aimed at evening out imbalances in the global semiconductor industry that have led to big chip shortages.

US TEXTRON TO ACQUIRE SLOVENIAN ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT PIONEER

U.S. industrial conglomerate Textron Inc. has signed a deal to acquire Pipistrel, the Slovenian ultralight aircraft maker and pioneer in electrically powered aviation, both companies announced Thursday.

JULIAN ASSANGE DENIED PERMISSION TO APPEAL BY UK'S TOP COURT

Britain’s top court this week refused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the U.S. to face spying charges.

WAR CENSORSHIP EXPOSES PUTIN'S LEAKY INTERNET CONTROLS

Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control akin to China’s so-called Great Firewall.

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Twitter Expands Birdwatch, Its Crowdsourced Fact Check Pilot

Twitter is expanding Birdwatch, its crowd-sourced fact checking project it started as a small and little-publicized pilot program more than a year ago.

OLD MONEY, NEW MONEY: BEAUX ARTS STYLE GETS ATTENTION ON HBO

“What surroundings, Mrs. Russell. We could be at Tsarskoye Selo,” exclaims Nathan Lane’s snooty Ward McAllister at his first glance of her opulent Fifth Avenue mansion on “The Gilded Age.”

RUSSIAN BANKS MULL CHINA UNIONPAY; BIG ACCOUNTING FIRMS EXIT

Leading Russian banks are looking into using a Chinese payment rival after Visa and Mastercard suspended operations, while all the big global accounting firms said they would pull out of Russia in the latest corporate fallout over the invasion of Ukraine.

TWITTER UNVEILS VERSION OF SITE THAT CAN BYPASS RUSSIA BLOCK

Twitter has launched a privacy-protected version of its site to bypass surveillance and censorship after Russia restricted access to its service in the country.

DID AMAZON VIOLATE FEDERAL LAWS? LAWMAKERS ASK FOR DOJ PROBE

Lawmakers followed through Wednesday on their threat to seek a criminal investigation of Amazon, asking the Justice Department to investigate whether the tech giant and senior executives obstructed Congress or violated other federal laws in testimony on its competition practices.

EXPERTS: HOW TO IMPOSE INTERNET SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA

Ukraine’s attempt to get Russia kicked off the internet failed, but a diverse group of experts proposes a more narrow approach to sanctioning the Kremlin for invading its neighbor: Consider creating a mechanism that could technically blacklist individual Russian military and propaganda websites.

MUSK ASKS JUDGE TO NULLIFY SUBPOENA, THROW OUT DEAL WITH SEC

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking a federal judge to nullify a subpoena from securities regulators and throw out a 2018 court agreement in which Musk had to have someone pre-approve his posts on Twitter.

GAS PRICE HIKES FUELING ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Some social media users suggest that soaring fuel prices in the U.S. aren't the result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, increased consumption or supply chain issues as daily life resumes after two years of stagnation brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

LEAK GIVES DETAILS ON OVER 30,000 CREDIT SUISSE BANK CLIENTS

A German newspaper said a leak of data from Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second-biggest bank, reveals details of the accounts of more than 30,000 clients — some of them unsavory — and points to possible failures of due diligence in checks on many customers.

DEPORTATION AGENTS USE SMARTPHONE APP TO MONITOR IMMIGRANTS

U.S. authorities have broadly expanded the use of a smartphone app during the coronavirus pandemic to ensure immigrants released from detention will attend deportation hearings, a requirement that advocates say violates their privacy and makes them feel they're not free.

DELIVERY ROBOTS WITH RUSSIAN TIES PULLED FROM 2 US CAMPUSES

Two U.S. university campuses are losing their food-delivery robots for now because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

BIDEN SIGNS ORDER ON CRYPTOCURRENCY AS ITS USE EXPLODES

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on government oversight of cryptocurrency that urges the Federal Reserve to explore whether the central bank should jump in and create its own digital currency.

‘CODA' Takes Top Honors at Sag Awards, Will Smith Wins

In an upset, the deaf family drama “CODA” took top honors at a very unpredictable 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards that also saw wins for the leads of “Squid Game,” the cast of “Ted Lasso” and Will Smith.

War via Tiktok: Russia's New Tool for Propaganda Machine

The Russian TikTok video has it all: a cat, puppies and a pulsing background beat. It’s cute, watchable and hardly seems the stuff of state propaganda.

PROPAGANDA, FAKE VIDEOS OF UKRAINE INVASION BOMBARD USERS

The messages, videos and photos flying across Twitter, Facebook and Telegram far outnumber the airstrikes raining down on Ukraine.

APPLE SAYS IT HALTS ALL PRODUCT SALES IN RUSSIA

Apple said it has paused all product sales in Russia in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.