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TWITTER STARTS SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE IN CANADA, AUSTRALIA

Twitter is rolling out a subscription service, starting in Canada and Australia, that offers perks like an undo button for subscribers.

TECH CALMS DOWN, BUT STILL STRONG AS THE WORLD GOES DIGITAL

Technology company stocks are in rest mode this year, but what may seem like weakness as the economy recovers is really just dormancy.

IN VISIONS OF POST-PANDEMIC LIFE, ROARING '20S BECKON AGAIN

History repeats itself. But do decades duplicate?

EU PLANS DIGITAL ID WALLET FOR BLOC'S POST-PANDEMIC LIFE

The European Union unveiled plans for a digital ID wallet that residents could use to access services across the 27-nation bloc, part of a post-pandemic recovery strategy that involves accelerating the shift to an online world.

EU GIVES TIKTOK A MONTH TO RESPOND TO CONSUMER COMPLAINTS

The European Commission said it has given the Chinese-owned video app TikTok one month to answer complaints from a European consumer group over its commercial practices.

DAIMLER TRUCK TO SHIFT SPENDING TO BATTERY, HYDROGEN RIGS

Daimler’s truck and bus division says it plans to shift most of its vehicle development resources to zero-emission vehicles by 2025 and predicts that battery and hydrogen-powered trucks could be competitive with diesels on cost later this decade.

HOW VACCINE PASSPORTS FOR GLOBAL TRAVEL WILL WORK

Boarding pass, suitcase, passport and ... digital vaccination certificate?

RUSSIAN TO BE DEPORTED AFTER FAILED TESLA RANSOMWARE PLOT

A Russian man was sentenced to what amounted to time already served and will be deported after pleading guilty to trying to pay a Tesla employee $500,000 to install computer malware at the company’s Nevada electric battery plant in a bid to steal company secrets for ransom.

NBC HOPES FOR MORE INDYCAR AS CONTRACT COMES TO AN END

NBC Sports heads into its third Indianapolis 500 not ready to wave the checkered flag on its partnership with Roger Penske’s open-wheel racing series.

EUROPEAN PRIVACY GROUPS CHALLENGE FACIAL SCAN FIRM CLEARVIEW

Privacy campaign groups filed legal complaints Thursday with European regulators against Clearview AI, alleging the facial recognition technology it provides to law enforcement agencies and businesses breaches stringent European Union privacy rules.

WHATSAPP SUES INDIAN GOVERNMENT OVER NEW INTERNET RULES

The messaging app WhatsApp has sued the Indian government seeking to defend its users’ privacy and stop new rules that would require it to make messages “traceable” to external parties.

OPRAH, PRINCE HARRY HOST DISCUSSION WITH GAGA, GLENN CLOSE

Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry are continuing their mental health series with a virtual town hall featuring Lady Gaga, Glenn Close and others.

FLORIDA LAW SEEKS TO REIN IN LARGE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act exempts websites from being sued for removing content deemed to be “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable” as long as the companies are acting in “good faith.”

EU BEEFS UP DISINFORMATION CODE TO PREVENT DIGITAL AD PROFIT

European Union officials unveiled plans to beef up the bloc’s code of practice on online disinformation, with the aim of preventing digital ad companies from profiting off of “fake news.”

GM'S NEWEST VEHICLE: OFF-ROAD, SELF-DRIVING ROVER FOR MOON

General Motors is teaming up with Lockheed Martin to produce the ultimate off-road, self-driving, electric vehicles — for the moon.

BEST BUY RAISES 2021 COMPARABLE STORE SALES EXPECTATIONS

Three months after saying that comparable-store sales may actually fall in 2021, Best Buy on Thursday released a much more optimistic outlook after reporting booming sales in the first quarter.

SPOTIFY CO-OWNER EK SAYS KROENKES REJECT BID TO BUY ARSENAL

Spotify co-owner Daniel Ek says a bid to buy Arsenal has been rejected by the Kroenke family which owns the London-based Premier League club.

TALKING TO THE MOON: EUROPE PITCHES LUNAR SATELLITES PLAN

The European Space Agency presented a vision to put satellites in orbit around the moon that would facilitate future missions to Earth’s closest neighbor.

REPORT: MICROSOFT INVESTIGATED GATES BEFORE HE LEFT BOARD

Board members at Microsoft Corp. made a decision in 2020 that it wasn’t appropriate for its co-founder Bill Gates to continue sitting on its board as they investigated the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

FOUNDER OF TIKTOK'S CHINESE OWNER STEPPING DOWN AS CEO

The founder of TikTok’s Chinese owner said Thursday he will give up his job as CEO to focus on longer-term initiatives, a step that comes amid uncertainty over whether the Biden administration will force the sale of the popular short video service’s U.S. arm.

RUSSIA WON'T BLOCK TWITTER, BUT PARTIAL SLOWDOWN TO CONTINUE

Russian authorities backed away from threats to block Twitter, saying that the social media platform deleted most of the banned content identified by Moscow and expressed “readiness and interest in building a constructive dialogue.”

STELLANTIS, FOXCONN TEAM UP TO MAKE CARS MORE CONNECTED

Carmaker Stellantis and Taiwan’s Foxconn announced plans to develop a jointly operated automotive supplier focusing on technology to make vehicles more connected, including artificial intelligence-based applications and 5-G communications.

COLONIAL PIPELINE CONFIRMS IT PAID $4.4M TO HACKERS

The operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems.

FTC SUES FRONTIER FOR DELIVERING INTERNET THAT'S TOO SLOW

The Federal Trade Commission and six states are suing Frontier Communications for not delivering the internet speeds it promised customers and charging them for better, more expensive service than they actually got.

DAIMLER TRUCK TO SHIFT SPENDING TO BATTERY, HYDROGEN RIGS

Daimler’s truck and bus division says it plans to shift most of its vehicle development resources to zero-emission vehicles by 2025 and predicts that battery and hydrogen-powered trucks could be competitive with diesels on cost later this decade.

AMAZON TO EXTEND PAUSE ON POLICE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION

Amazon said that it will extend its ban on police use of its face-recognition technology beyond the one-year pause it announced last year.

PENTAGON RECONSIDERING HUGE JEDI CLOUD COMPUTING CONTRACT

The Pentagon is reconsidering how to make a massive shift to cloud computing, officials said Monday, suggesting it could scrap the so-called JEDI contract potentially worth $10 billion that was awarded to Microsoft Corp. but is mired in legal challenges.

GERMAN WATCHDOG BANS FACEBOOK FROM PROCESSING WHATSAPP DATA

A German privacy watchdog banned Facebook on Tuesday from gathering data on users of its WhatsApp chat app, citing an update to its privacy policy that it said breaches stringent European data protection rules.

TESLA TO STOP ACCEPTING BITCOIN FOR CAR PAYMENTS

Electric car maker Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin as a payment, CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday, citing environmental concerns.

CHINA SAYS XIAOMI REMOVAL FROM U.S. BLACKLIST “BENEFICIAL”

China’s commerce ministry on Thursday welcomed the removal of Xiaomi Corp. from a U.S. government blacklist, a day after the U.S. reversed a ban on U.S. investments in the smartphone maker that was imposed under former President Donald Trump.