CATEGORIES

NISSAN MULLING THIRD AUTO PLANT IN THE US TO MEET EV DEMAND

Nissan is considering adding a new auto plant in the U.S. to keep up with growing demand for electric vehicles, a top executive at the Japanese automaker said.

MENACED BY FLAMES, NUCLEAR LAB PEERS INTO FUTURE OF WILDFIRE

Public schools were closed and evacuation bags packed this week as a stubborn wildfire crept within a few miles of the city of Los Alamos and its companion U.S. national security lab - where assessing apocalyptic threats is a specialty and wildland fire is a beguiling equation.

WITH ROE IN DOUBT, SOME FEAR TECH SURVEILLANCE OF PREGNANCY

When Chandler Jones realized she was pregnant during her junior year of college, she turned to a trusted source for information and advice.

HAWAIIAN AIRLINES EXPLORING ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY

Hawaiian Airlines is exploring electric aircraft technology with a company based in Boston.

LEARN YOUR PARENTS' FINANCIAL PLANS ASAP

My mom died at age 61, when I was 31. Seeing her headstone in a field of others smacked me with a brutal, if obvious fact: Everyone, including everyone's parents, will die.

MUSK'S CHINA TIES ADD POTENTIAL RISKS TO TWITTER PURCHASE

Elon Musk's ties to China through his role as electric car brand Tesla's biggest shareholder could add complexity to his bid to buy Twitter.

AIRBNB Allows Employees to Live and Work From Anywhere

Airbnb will allow its employees to live and work almost anywhere around the world, fully embracing a remote work policy to attract staff and ensure flexibility.

Save on Family Travel Without Stressing

My family didn’t travel much when I was a kid, but when we did, my parents jumped through hoops to cut costs.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Self Service Repair

Empowering consumers to fix their devices

Apple Delivers Strong Quarter, but Warns of Trouble Ahead

Apple reported strong quarterly results despite supply shortages, but warned that its growth slowdown is likely to deepen.

Amazon Workers in NYC Reject Union in a Reversal of Fortune

Amazon workers at a warehouse on Staten Island overwhelmingly rejected a union bid on Monday, dealing a blow to organizers who last month pulled offthe first successful U.S. organizing effort in the retail giant’s history.

orkut

The comeback of the captivating social network

ENERGY CHIEF GRANHOLM TOUTS $3B PLAN TO BOOST EV BATTERIES

Continuing its push to dramatically boost sales of electric vehicles, the Biden administration announced $3.1 billion in funding to U.S. companies that make and recycle lithium-ion batteries.

FIFA BLOCKCHAIN DEAL IS FIRST NEW US WCUP SPONSOR SINCE 2011

FIFA got a first new American sponsor of the men’s World Cup in 11 years, signing a deal for this year’s tournament in Qatar with blockchain technology provider Algorand.

ELON MUSK'S BIG PLANS FOR TWITTER: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has laid out some bold, if still vague, plans for transforming Twitter into a place of “maximum fun” once he buys the social media platform for $44 billion and takes it private.

GOOGLE ADDS WAYS TO KEEP PERSONAL INFO PRIVATE IN SEARCHES

Google has expanded options for keeping personal information private from online searches.

GEORGIA SETS $1.5B IN AID FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE MAKER RIVIAN

The state of Georgia and local governments will give Rivian Automotive $1.5 billion of incentives to built a 7,500-job, $5 billion electric vehicle plant east of Atlanta, according to documents the company and state signed this week.

NEW FACTORY IN MOSES LAKE TO BRING HUNDREDS OF NEW JOBS

A battery materials company has purchased a 600,000-square foot facility in Moses Lake, Washington, to be used to manufacture lithium-ion anode battery materials for the automotive and cell phone industries.

WHAT'S NEXT NOW THAT TWITTER AGREED TO MUSK BID?

Twitter’s acceptance of Elon Musk’s roughly $44 billion takeover bid brings the billionaire Tesla CEO one step closer to owning the social media platform.

THE EDSEL, QUIBI AND CNN+? NEW ADDITION TO BUSINESS FAILURES

The Edsel. Quibi. New Coke. The Segway. DeLorean sports cars. The pantheon of colossal business failures has a new member in the CNN+ streaming service.

SPACEX LAUNCHES 4 ASTRONAUTS FOR NASA AFTER PRIVATE FLIGHT

SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wednesday, less than two days after completing a flight chartered by millionaires.

EU LAW TARGETS BIG TECH OVER HATE SPEECH, DISINFORMATION

Big tech companies like Google and Facebook parent Meta will have to police their platforms more strictly to better protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content under landmark EU legislation approved last weekend.

‘THE NORTHMAN' AN AMBITIOUS, BUT LEAN REVENGE TALE

The first sign that not everyone in Robert Eggers’ 10th-century Viking revenge tale “The Northman” has their priorities entirely straight comes early in the film, when the Viking king Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke) returns home to the North Atlantic kingdom of Hrafnsey after a year of fighting overseas.