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MOON HOLDS MORE WATER IN MORE PLACES THAN EVER THOUGHT

NASA’s astrophysics director Paul Hertz said it’s too soon to know whether this water — found in and around the southern hemisphere’s sunlit Clavius Crater — would be accessible.

NEW PROGRAM ALLOWS SOLDIERS TO INNOVATE FROM THE BOTTOM UP

In combat, U.S. Army Maj. Evan Adams is a tank officer responsible for leading intricate cavalry and reconnaissance operations.

CHINESE FINTECH COULD SHATTER RECORDS WITH $35B SHARE OFFER

The world’s largest fintech company, China’s Ant Group, will try to raise nearly $35 billion in a massive public offering of stock that would shatter records.

AS WORLD GOES ONLINE IN PANDEMIC, ANOTHER MAMMOTH CHIP DEAL

Advanced Micro Devices is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chipmakers and accelerate an already rapid-fire pace of mergers and buyouts in the industry.

VIDEO APP TIKTOK LEANS INTO E-COMMERCE WITH SHOPIFY DEAL

The popular short-form video app TikTok, still under U.S. government scrutiny for its Chinese ownership, is moving closer to becoming a marketplace for buying stuff.

T-MOBILE OFFERS UP YET ANOTHER TV STREAMING SERVICE

Yet another service provider is jumping into the TV streaming wars. This time it’s T-Mobile and its TVision service with live news, entertainment and sports channels, starting at $10 a month.

STRESSED FRESHMEN MISSING QUINTESSENTIAL COLLEGE EXPERIENCE

It’s a major life milestone, the first time many U.S. teens have ever been on their own. Even in normal times, freshman year in college can be a jumbled mix of anticipation, uncertainty and emotional highs and lows.

SOME BALLOT REQUESTS MAY BE AFFECTED BY COUNTY CYBER ATTACK

A hacker attack against an upstate New York county’s computer system raised concern that some emailed absentee ballot applications may not be processed, but the state Board of Elections said voting won’t be affected overall.

MUSIC TV: TAKING SHOTS AT MTV WITH NEW DIGITAL TV STATION

In an unexpected move, Apple announced in late October that it would launch Apple Music TV, a new 24-hour curated live stream of chart-topping music videos, designed to encourage more consumers to subscribe to its Apple TV+ streaming service.

SOCIAL MEDIA CEOS GET EARFUL ON BIAS, WARNING OF NEW LIMITS

With next week’s election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were scolded by Republicans at a Senate hearing for alleged anticonservative bias in the companies’ social media platforms and received a warning of coming restrictions from Congress.

MEDIA ELECTION PLANNERS PREPARE FOR A NIGHT OF MYSTERY

This coming weekend, CNN’s Sam Feist will distribute to his staff copies of the testimony news executives gave to Congress when they tried to explain how television networks got 2000’s disputed election so spectacularly wrong.

HALLOWEEN IN 2020: SOME FUN WITH DEATH AND FEAR, ANYONE?

The setting: a rolling patch of Pennsylvania farmland, about 15 miles from the little town where “Night of the Living Dead” was filmed. The moment: Halloween season 2020, a moonlit Friday night.

BORAT IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE FITS RIGHT IN

Since Sacha Baron Cohen first appeared as his Kazakh journalist on “Da Ali G Show,” Borat Sagdiyev has been remarkably consistent. The accent is the same. The gray suit is still rumpled. “Nahce” and “Mah Wahfe” regularly exude from him with a mangled melody. Borat hasn’t changed in the last 20 years. But America has.

ASTEROID SAMPLES ESCAPING FROM JAMMED NASA SPACECRAFT

A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said.

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A gift at war (for Veterans Day)

In March 2003, as news networks broadcast images of American tanks racing north toward Baghdad, my infantry platoon dug shallow foxholes in south-ern Iraq. We were part of a defensive perimeter guarding FARP Exxon, a helicopter refueling point for the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

NEW HUAWEI PHONE COMES AT CRUCIAL TIME FOR CHINESE COMPANY

Huawei’s new smartphone has an upgraded camera, its latest advanced chipset and a better battery. What it may not have outside the Chinese tech giant’s home market is very many buyers.

INTEL TO SELL NAND BUSINESS TO SKOREAN RIVAL FOR $9 BILLION

Intel has agreed to a $9 billion deal to sell most of its memory business to South Korea’s SK Hynix as it moves toward more diverse technologies while shedding a major Chinese factory at a time of deepening trade friction between Washington and Beijing.

NONPROFIT APP AIMS TO HELP UNBLOCK GLOBAL AIR TRAVEL

A nonprofit foundation is testing a smartphone app that could make it easier for international airline passengers to securely show they’ve complied with COVID-19 testing requirements. It’s an attempt to help get people back to flying after the pandemic sent global air travel down by 92%.

TESLA POSTS NET PROFIT FOR FIFTH STRAIGHT QUARTER

Tesla charged through a summertime auto industry sales slump in the U.S. to post stronger-than-expected net earnings for the third quarter.

SHORT-VIDEO APP QUIBI SHUTTING DOWN JUST MONTHS AFTER LAUNCH

Short-video app Quibi said it is shutting down just six months after its early April launch, having struggled to find customers.

DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX CONVENE SESSION ON DIGITAL WORLD

Creating online communities free of danger and misinformation is crucial in building a better world, the Duchess of Sussex told an online audience during a special Time100 Talks episode she curated with her husband, Prince Harry.

ERICSSON EARNINGS BOOSTED BY 5G NETWORK ROLLOUTS

Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson has reported upbeat third-quarter earnings, helped mainly by the rollout of 5G wireless networks in China and a strong U.S. market.