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KIM KARDASHIAN FINED $1 MILLION BY SEC OVER CRYPTO PROMOTION

The long list of celebrities promoting cryptocurrencies just got shorter. Kim Kardashian is being barred from doing so for three years - and will pay a $1 million fine -- to settle federal charges that she recommended a crypto security to her 330 million Instagram followers without making clear that she was paid to do so.

FIREFLY AEROSPACE REACHES ORBIT WITH NEW ALPHA ROCKET

A new aerospace company reached orbit with its second rocket launch and deployed multiple small satellites on Saturday (01).

WHITE HOUSE UNVEILS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 'BILL OF RIGHTS'

The Biden administration unveiled a set of far-reaching goals aimed at averting harms caused by the rise of artificial intelligence systems, including guidelines for how to protect people's personal data and limit surveillance.

BIDEN PLEDGE TO MAKE FEDERAL FLEET ELECTRIC FACES SLOW START

President Joe Biden, a self-described "car guy, often promises to lead by example on climate change by moving swiftly to convert the sprawling U.S. government fleet to zero-emission electric vehicles. But efforts to eliminate gas-powered vehicles from the fleet have lagged.

HOW COMPANY OFF-SITES ARE CHANGING BUSINESS TRAVEL

Business travel used to mean sending employees from their home office to somewhere else — to meet with clients or coworkers at other offices. But for many remote-first companies, it now means the opposite: Bringing employees together from their far-flung homes to work and meet in person.

DEAL BACK ON? ELON MUSK GETS CLOSER TO BUYING TWITTER

The tumultuous saga of Elon Musk’s on-again off-again purchase of Twitter took a turn toward a conclusion Tuesday after the mercurial Tesla CEO proposed to buy the company at the originally agreed-on price of $44 billion.

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Amazon to Raise Average Hourly Pay by $1 to $19 in October

Amazon said it's raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a hour, a boost that could help it attract more employees in a tight labor market as the holiday season approaches.

ROHINGYA SEEK REPARATIONS FROM FACEBOOK FOR ROLE IN MASSACRE

With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017, Maung Sawyeddollah, 21, describes what happened when violent hate speech and disinformation targeting the Rohingya minority in Myanmar began to spread on Facebook.

SENATORS PUSH TO REFORM POLICE'S CELLPHONE TRACKING TOOLS

Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies' ability to buy cellphone tracking tools to follow people's whereabouts, including back years in time, and sometimes without a search warrant.

JETBLUE CEO FIRST WITNESS IN US LAWSUIT AGAINST 2 AIRLINES

Government lawyers used airline executives' own words in trying Tuesday to persuade a federal judge to kill a partnership between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways.

ALZHEIMER'S DRUG SHOWS PROMISE IN EARLY RESULTS OF STUDY

Shares of Biogen and other drugmakers researching Alzheimer's disease soared early Wednesday after Japan's Eisai Co. said its potential treatment appeared to slow the fatal disease in a late-stage study.

GM SPENDING $760M TO CONVERT TOLEDO FACTORY TO MAKE EV PARTS

General Motors says it will spend $760 million to renovate its transmission factory in Toledo, Ohio, so it can build drive lines for electric vehicles.

AUSTRALIA DEMANDS OPTUS PAY FOR NEW CUSTOMER ID DOCUMENTS

Australia's federal and state governments called for Optus to pay for replacing identification documents including passports and driver's licenses to avoid identity fraud after 9.8 million of the telecommunications company's customers had personal data stolen by computer hackers.

STATES GET FINAL OK TO BUILD HIGHWAY EV CHARGING NETWORK

Attention, potential car buyers: New electric vehicle charging stations are on their way to highway locations near you.

AMAZON UNVEILS BEDSIDE DEVICE THAT TRACKS SLEEPING PATTERNS

Soon enough, a bedside Amazon device might know whether you're sleeping - or not.

HOW TO HELP LOVED ONES DEAL WITH DEBT

Juan Pinon, an electrical engineer in McAllen, Texas, struggled with credit card debt for years. It wasn't until he confided in his sister that he began to turn things around.

MUSK FACES DEPOSITION WITH TWITTER AHEAD OF OCTOBER TRIAL

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to spend the next few days with lawyers for Twitter, answering questions ahead of an October trial that will determine whether he must carry through with his $44 billion agreement to acquire the social platform after attempting to back out of the deal.

FED'S POWELL URGES BROADER REGULATION FOR STABLECOINS

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that stablecoins will need greater regulation as they become more widely used by consumers.

Halftime Apple Music now sponsors NFL Super Bowl show

Apple Music has been announced as the new primary sponsor for the Super Bowl halftime show in a deal representing a $50 million investment and a major departure for the world's biggest tech brand as it continues to expand into new areas and bolster its services revenue.

PROTOTYPE ELECTRIC AIRPLANE TAKES FIRST FLIGHT

A prototype, all-electric airplane took its first flight Tuesday morning in central Washington state.

TIKTOK MAY FACE BIG FINE OVER CHILDREN'S DATA PROTECTION

TikTok could face a 27 million-pound ($29 million) fine in the U.K. over a possible breach of U.K. data protection law by failing to protect children's privacy when they are using the videosharing platform.

RIHANNA TO HEADLINE THE NEXT SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW

Rihanna will take center stage at February's Super Bowl halftime show.

APPLE INC WILL MANUFACTURE IPHONE 14 IN INDIA

Apple Inc. will make its iPhone 14 in India, the company said this week, as manufacturers shift production from China amid geopolitical tensions and pandemic restrictions that have disrupted supply chains for many industries.

META DISABLES RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA NETWORK TARGETING EUROPE

A sprawling disinformation network originating in Russia sought to use hundreds of fake social media accounts and dozens of sham news websites to spread Kremlin talking points about the invasion of Ukraine, Meta revealed this week.

VP HARRIS SEEKS COMPUTER CHIP PARTNERS IN TOKYO

Armed with a new law that boosts U.S. support for computer chip manufacturing, Vice President Kamala Harris is seeking new investments and partnerships as she sits down with Japanese technology executives.

JAMES CAMERON TURNS TO EARTH BEFORE RELEASE OF NEW ‘AVATAR'

There’s a new nature documentary series that promises to show viewers incredible animal behavior in vibrant clarity. Heard that all before? Well, this one is on steroids.

WHY A NASA SPACECRAFT WILL CRASH INTO AN ASTEROID

In the first-of-its-kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away.

FRANCE'S MACRON SEEKS ‘MASSIVE' BOOST FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “massive acceleration” of renewable energy development in his country, including offshore wind farms and solar power, via a new plan that seeks to bring lagging France closer to the energy policies of its European neighbors.

THEATER COMMUNITY UNITES FOR SPECIAL ANTI-CENSORSHIP PODCAST

The theater community is banding together for a special podcast to combat censorship that features performances from plays and musicals under threat and appearances by Bryan Cranston, Raúl Esparza, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Richard Kind.