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October 6, 2021 By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Wednesday took the first step to restore federal regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects like highways and pipelines, which were scaled back by the Trump administration that sought to fast-track them. The White House Council for Environmental Quality said it will […]

October 6, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday he was shocked by an anti-Semitic insult a Jewish musician said he had suffered at a hotel in Leipzig and that such behaviour had no place in Germany. In a case that has hit national headlines, Gil Ofarim, 39, posted a […]

October 6, 2021 By Elizabeth Culliford WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told Congress on Tuesday that one option for making social media less harmful would be to create a dedicated regulatory agency to oversee companies like Facebook, which could have former tech workers on staff. “Right now, the only people in the world who […]

October 6, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate will postpone a vote planned for Wednesday afternoon to suspend the federal government’s $28.4 trillion debt ceiling, four Republican senators and a Democratic aide said. It was not immediately clear when the postponed vote would be held. (Reporting by Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan; Editing by […]

October 6, 2021 CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said on Wednesday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has not yet delivered funds under a program to help countries battle the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a dispute over the government’s legitimacy. In August, the IMF authorized Venezuela to receive around $5 billion in Special […]

October 6, 2021 By Niklas Pollard, Ludwig Burger and Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developing new tools for building molecules that have helped make new drugs and are more environmentally friendly. Their work on asymmetric organocatalysis, which the […]

October 6, 2021 By Luis Jaime Acosta CUCUTA, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombia deployed a new unit of 14,000 military personnel on Wednesday to increase government control of a conflict hotspot near the Venezuelan border, where multiple armed groups compete for control of cocaine production. The new unit, known by CENOR, deployed in the northeastern province […]

October 6, 2021 By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -The Israeli-based NSO Group ended its contract with the United Arab Emirates to use its powerful “Pegasus” state spyware tool because Dubai’s ruler was using it to hack the phones of his ex-wife and some close to her, her lawyers told England’s High Court. Sheikh Mohammed bin […]

The meme-ification of ownership and the wild acceleration of private startup valuations have led us to this moment where a former VC firm associate has built a crypto marketplace designed for “fantasy startup investing,” where users spend real money buying fakes shares — in NFT form, of course — of real startups. The game, which […]

Pinterest is rolling out new features for advertisers and brands to promote their products to users on its site. The launch marks the company’s latest initiative to grow online shopping and advertising on its platform. A new ‘slideshow for collections’ feature pulls products from brands’ catalogues and automatically turns them into a ‘collections ad.’ Pinterest […]

OpenStack, the open-source project that gives large enterprises and public cloud providers the tools to run their own AWS-like private clouds in their data centers, today announced the release of OpenStack 24. Codenamed Xena, the release focuses on polishing many of the system’s sharper edges. It’s no secret that the OpenStack project, which now falls […]

Will Uppington Contributor Share on Twitter Will Uppington is the CEO and co-founder of TruEra. The European Commission announced first-of-its-kind legislation regulating the use of artificial intelligence in April. This unleashed criticism that the regulations could slow AI innovation, hamstringing Europe in its competition with the U.S. and China for leadership in AI. For example, […]

Apple is making a change to its App Store by returning the “Report a Problem” link to App Store product pages across iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey devices. The link offers an easy way for users to report issues they’re having with an app, including whether it contains offensive or illegal content, or […]

October 6, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jonathan Kanter, the third of three progressives named to top U.S. antitrust posts by President Joe Biden, pledged on Wednesday to enforce antitrust law in agriculture, pharmaceutical prices and the labor market, as well as in Big Tech. Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee did not focus on the […]

October 6, 2021 By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday said it was a mistake to fly to the West Coast last week on holiday on the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honoring the lost children and survivors of indigenous schools. Trudeau flew to Tofino (https://ift.tt/3adY4Pa), […]

October 6, 2021 By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada will place unvaccinated federal employees on unpaid leave and require COVID-19 shots for air, train and ship passengers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday as he unveiled one of the world’s strictest vaccine mandate policies. Federal employees will be required to declare their full vaccination […]

October 6, 2021 STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden and Denmark said on Wednesday they are pausing the use of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for younger age groups after reports of possible rare cardiovascular side effects. The Swedish health agency said it would pause using the shot for people born in 1991 and later as data pointed to […]

For the last decade, battery chemistry company Sila has been working to replace the graphite anode in lithium-ion batteries with silicon, a material that’s easier to come by, more environmentally friendly and allows for a battery cell that’s denser and cheaper. In September, the company shipped its first commercial product with Whoop wearables. Now, Sila […]

October 6, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nasdaq Inc Chief Executive Adena Friedman said on Wednesday that an extended delay in raising the U.S. debt limit would cause markets to react “very, very negatively.” During a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and business officials at the White House on Wednesday, she said, “We urge action […]

October 6, 2021 MILAN (Reuters) – Stellantis’ Alfa Romeo will roll out a new model each year to 2026, starting with Tonale’s SUV next year, the brand’s head Jean-Philippe Imparato said on Wednesday. Stellantis, the world’s fourth largest carmaker, formed earlier this year though the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s PSA, has pooled its […]