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CANADA BANS CHINA'S HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES FROM 5G NETWORKS

Wireless carriers in Canada won’t be allowed to install Huawei equipment in their high-speed 5G networks, the Canadian government said, joining allies in banning the giant Chinese technology company.

HYUNDAI ANNOUNCES $5.5B ELECTRIC VEHICLE PLANT IN GEORGIA

Hyundai Motor Group confirmed the company will spend $5.5 billion on a huge electric vehicle plant near Savannah that will employ thousands — a deal Georgia’s governor called the largest economic development project in the state’s history.

TWITTER TO PAY $150M PENALTY OVER PRIVACY OF USERS' DATA

Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span.

MUSK WARS WITH TWITTER OVER HIS BUYOUT DEAL - ON TWITTER

Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised that taking over Twitter would enable him to rid the social media platform of its annoying “spam bots.” Now he’s arguing — without presenting any evidence — that there might be just too many of those automated accounts for the $44 billion deal to move ahead.

MCDONALD'S ERA IN RUSSIA COMING TO A CLOSE, RESTAURANTS SOLD

McDonald’s is selling all of its restaurants in Russia 30 years after the burger chain became a powerful symbol of easing Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union.

HARLEY-DAVIDSON SUSPENDS PRODUCTION FOR 2 WEEKS, SHARES FALL

Harley-Davidson announced a two-week suspension of vehicle assembly and most shipments, citing a regulatory compliance issue with one of its suppliers.

CONSUMERS SHIFT AGAIN, FLUMMOXING BIG RETAILERS LIKE TARGET

The pandemic vastly changed the way Americans spend money and now as they return to pre-pandemic behavior, they’re tripping up retailers again.

CONGRESS DIVES INTO UFOS, BUT NO SIGNS OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS

Congress held its first hearing in half a century on unidentified flying objects. And no, there is still no government confirmation of extraterrestrial life.

NY AGENCY FILES DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT AGAINST AMAZON

A state agency in New York has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant discriminated against pregnant and disabled workers by denying them “reasonable accommodations” and forcing them to take unpaid leave, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this week.

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.

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.

A Bear Market May Be on the Horizon. Here's What That Means

Investors on Wall Street need a place to hide.

Dusty Demise for Nasa Mars Lander in July; Power Dwindling

A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise.

‘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.

Door Dashed

Can local food delivery co-ops take on the Big Tech apps?

Self Service Repair

Empowering consumers to fix their devices

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.

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.

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.

BIDEN ANNOUNCES PROGRAM OFFERING DISCOUNTED INTERNET SERVICE

President Joe Biden announced that 20 internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes, a program that could effectively make tens of millions of households eligible for free service through an already existing federal subsidy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”