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September 29, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – A German toymaker is producing a batch of commemorative teddy bears to mark the end of Angela Merkel’s time as chancellor, and they have sold out before she has even left office. The handmade bears come complete with their hands resting in the “Merkel rhombus”, the chancellor’s trademark pose […]

September 29, 2021 (Reuters) – AT&T Inc said on Wednesday it would require its union-represented employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before entering their work location, following a similar mandate for its management employees last month. The U.S wireless carrier, one the largest employers of union-represented workers, said the Communications Workers of America (CWA)-linked employees […]

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September 29, 2021 By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) – The slim-but-growing possibility of a fiscal crisis if Congress doesn’t act on the debt ceiling is getting increasing attention from U.S. investors and is filtering into certain asset prices, though few believe the nation will ultimately default. Warnings have been rung from policymakers to Wall […]

September 29, 2021 By Paresh Dave (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday unveiled search features coming soon that will put images rather than text at the heart of queries and potentially expand its role in e-commerce and its dominance in online video. Google had said in May that advances in artificial intelligence software would […]

September 29, 2021 FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The German state of Brandenburg said on Wednesday no decision has been taken on Tesla’s request to build a factory near Berlin, following a media report that regulators had agreed on the terms of a conditional approval. The Business Insider website had cited Brandenburg government sources saying environmental authorities […]

September 29, 2021 By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) -The first phase of a multi-year research project the Boston Federal Reserve is doing with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the technology that could be used for a digital dollar is nearly done and could be released over the next month or so, a Boston Fed official […]

September 29, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc on Wednesday pressed a federal appeals court to let it recoup about $504 million of its own money that it accidentally wired Revlon Inc lenders, saying its mistake did not entitle them to a huge windfall. The bank’s lawyer Neal Katyal said the […]

September 29, 2021 OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s centre-left election winners abandoned their attempt to form a majority government on Wednesday after the Socialist Left Party pulled out of the talks, a move likely to lead to the formation of a minority administration. Labour, the Centre Party and the Socialists won a majority of seats in […]

September 29, 2021 By Robert Muller USTI NAD LABEM, Czech Republic (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban backed his Czech counterpart Andrej Babis’ re-election bid on Wednesday, making a display of the close ties between the two central European leaders who have supported each other in disputes with the EU. The Czech Republic holds […]

September 29, 2021 By Ruma Paul and Poppy McPherson (Reuters) – Gunmen shot and killed a prominent Rohingya Muslim leader in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday, a United Nations spokesperson and a local police official said, following months of worsening violence in the world’s largest refugee settlement. Mohib Ullah, who was in […]

September 29, 2021 By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -France will decide within two weeks on possible retaliation measures after Britain and the Channel Island of Jersey refused dozens of French fishing boats a licence to operate in their territorial waters. Paris accused London of playing politics with post-Brexit fishing rights and urged other European Union […]

September 29, 2021 KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine on Wednesday signed a memorandum to establish joint training and maintenance centres for Turkish armed drones, a statement on President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s website said. Ukraine has previously bought the drones from the Turkish defence technology company Baykar to bolster its armed forces in their fight against Russian-backed separatists […]

Google is making a change to its search results with the goal of improving the media literacy of online users. The company is expanding the capabilities of its “About this Result” feature, launched earlier this year, to also now include information about the source itself, including its description from Wikipedia and what the site says […]

Google has updates for a handful of tools aimed at helping people use Maps for more, or get on them in the first place. The company is improving wildfire tracking, expanding a tool for calculating tree canopy cover in cities, and further automating virtual address creation with Plus Codes. The wildfires will be of the […]

Google announced today it will be applying A.I. advancements, including a new technology called Multitask Unified Model (MUM) to improve Google Search. At the company’s Search On event, the company demonstrated new features, including those that leverage MUM, to better connect web searchers to the content they’re looking for, while also making web search feel […]

Earlier this year, at Google’s I/O annual developer conference, the company introduced a new A.I. milestone called Multitask Unified Model, or MUM. This technology can simultaneously understand information across a wide range of formats, including text, images, and videos, and draw insights and connections between topics, concepts, and ideas. Today, Google announced one of the […]

September 29, 2021 By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) – QC Ware, a quantum computer software startup based in Silicon Valley with high profile customers like Goldman Sachs Group, Inc, said on Wednesday it raised $25 million. The funding round was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, an investment arm of Koch Industries, and Covestro AG, […]

September 29, 2021 By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) -Air France took delivery of its first compact Airbus A220 jetliner on Tuesday, pledging greater comfort and lower emissions on short routes as its Franco-Dutch parent pushes ahead with a broader fleet shake-up to streamline costs. The French airline, part of the Franco-Dutch Air France-KLM group, said […]

September 29, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Qatar took coordinated action on Wednesday targeting a Hezbollah financial network in the Arabian Peninsula, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. The Treasury said it designated individuals including Ali Reda Hassan al-Banai, Ali Reda al-Qassabi Lari and Abd al-Muayyid al-Banaiare for having provided financial […]