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HARRIS UNVEILS PLAN FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING NETWORK

The Biden administration released an ambitious federal strategy to build 500,000 charging stations for electric vehicles across the country and bring down the cost of electric cars with the goal of transforming the U.S. auto industry.

HARLEY TO TAKE ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE COMPANY PUBLIC VIA SPAC

Harley-Davidson will take its electric motorcycle division public through a blank-check company, valuing the enterprise that has been part of the Harley for 10 years at $1.77 billion.

NASA CRAFT ‘TOUCHES' SUN FOR 1ST TIME, DIVES INTO ATMOSPHERE

A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona.

TIME MAGAZINE'S “PERSON OF THE YEAR” IS ELON MUSK

Calling him a “clown, genius, edgelord, visionary, industrialist, showman,” Time magazine has named Tesla CEO Elon Musk as its Person of the Year for 2021.

PROPOSED NEBRASKA MINE MIGHT PRODUCE MORE RARE ELEMENTS

The company working to build a mine in southeast Nebraska to extract a rare element used to make steel lighter and stronger said that it may also be able to produce some of the key ingredients needed to make the powerful magnets used in electric vehicles and other high-tech products.

UK ANTITRUST WATCHDOG INVESTIGATES MICROSOFT'S NUANCE DEAL

British antitrust regulators are opening an investigation into Microsoft’s $16 billion acquisition of speech recognition company Nuance in the latest sign they’re tightening scrutiny of big technology deals.

Voice Plan

Putting Siri at the heart of Apple Music

‘The Internet's On Fire' As Techs Race To Fix Software Flaw

A critical vulnerability in a widely used software tool — one quickly exploited in the online game Minecraft — is rapidly emerging as a major threat to organizations around the world.

BIDEN ORDER WOULD MAKE US GOVERNMENT CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2050

President Joe Biden signed an executive order to make the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050, aiming for a 65% reduction in planetwarming greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and an all-electric fleet of car and trucks five years later.

JAPANESE TOURISTS DOCK AT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

A Japanese billionaire and his producer rocketed to space on Wednesday and reached the International Space Station several hours later, the first visit by self-paying space tourists to the orbiting outpost in more than a decade.

MAJOR OUTAGE AT AMAZON DISRUPTS BUSINESSES ACROSS THE US

A major outage in Amazon’s cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of U.S. companies for more than five hours, the latest sign of just how concentrated the business of keeping the internet running has become.

STELLANTIS WANTS TO OUTFIT CARS WITH AI TO DRIVE UP REVENUE

Carmaker Stellantis announced a strategy this week to embed AI-enabled software in 34 million vehicles across its 14 brands, hoping the tech upgrade will help it bring in 20 billion euros ($22.6 billion) in annual revenue by 2030.

TRUMP MEDIA PARTNER SAYS IT HAS LINED UP $1B IN CAPITAL

Donald Trump’s new social media company and its special purpose acquisition company partner say the partner has agreements for $1 billion in capital from institutional investors.

EUROPEAN ACTIVISTS FIGHT FOR RIGHT TO REPAIR ELECTRONICS

At a table scattered with tools and wires, volunteer repairers sit across from the owners of an assortment of inoperable electronics.

INSTAGRAM LAUNCHES TOOL URGING TEENS TO TAKE A BREAK

Instagram launched a feature that urges teenagers to take breaks from the photo-sharing platform and announced other tools aimed at protecting young users from harmful content on the Facebook-owned service.

Q&A: EXPLAINING THE FAST GROWTH OF STABLECOINS

Among the fastest-growing forms of cryptocurrency are stablecoins, which use blockchain technology like Bitcoin and ethereum.

ROHINGYA SUE FACEBOOK FOR $150B, ALLEGING ROLE IN VIOLENCE

Rohingya refugees sued Facebook parent Meta Platforms for more than $150 billion over what they say was the company’s failure to stop hateful posts that incited violence against the Muslim ethnic group by Myanmar’s military rulers and their supporters.

STEVEN SPIELBERG'S ROUSING ‘WEST SIDE STORY' REVIVAL

We’re so rife with reboots and remakes today that it can take a moment to gauge just what Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” is.

European Activists Fight for Right to Repair Electronics

At a table scattered with tools and wires, volunteer repairers sit across from the owners of an assortment of inoperable electronics. The volunteers at a free “repair cafe” in Copenhagen disassemble and diagnose gadgets while the customers watch, each doing their part for the environment - one broken blender, radio or laptop at a time.

Group: Pandemic Tech Tools Raise Risk Of Everyday Tracking

Tech tools like digital contact tracing apps and artificial intelligence that European governments rolled out to combat COVID-19 failed to play a key role in solving the pandemic and now threaten to make such monitoring widely accepted, a new report shows.

Qobuz Redux

Three years ago, French upstarts Qobuz made quite a splash upon entering the U.S. streaming market. What has happened with the high-res service in the interim?

Beethoven, Regolith, and You

The year is 1969. I am sitting in front of my family's TV watching live black-and-white video from the moon. High-definition TV is still science fiction, but in the blurry picture I can see Neil Armstrong descend the ladder and step onto the lunar surface.

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The Green Knight

The Green Knight, director David Lowery's film adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an anonymous 14th century poem, is a fantastical, visually intoxicating take on Arthurian legend.

Blue Heaven

BLUESOUND NODE STREAMING DAC

5 Must-Have Features on New Cars

One of the perks of buying a new vehicle is that it offers features that promise a safer and more convenient driving experience.

2021 Gift Guide

Ideas for the tech lovers in your life

Shiftscreen 4X

Bring multi–monitor support to iOS

Mini Motorways

Who’d be a city planner?

How iPad mini grew into itself

Sometimes overshadowed, Charlotte Henry explores how the iPad mini has matured into a very powerful little device