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September 22, 2021 By Alicja Ptak WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland’s broadcasting regulator on Wednesday extended an operating licence for the popular U.S.-owned, anti-government news channel TVN24, but questioned if it had the right to continue operating, asking the government for legal clarity. Critics say TVN24 is a prime target in ruling party efforts to quash media […]

September 22, 2021 By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S.-trained Afghan pilot was talking to Reuters on a smuggled cellphone from Tajikistan, where he is being held, when something strange happened – his voice started looping, repeating everything he had just said, word for word. His fiancee, an American nurse in Florida, was on […]

September 22, 2021 By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Regulators will monitor how Britain’s furlough scheme ends this month for signs of distress among consumers, the Financial Conduct Authority said on Wednesday. It also said it was ready to take more legal action to counteract an upturn in financial crime triggered by COVID-19. Britain rolled […]

September 22, 2021 By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) – China’s Xiaomi Corp said on Wednesday that its devices do not censor users’ communications, a day after Lithuania’s Defence Ministry recommended that consumers avoid Chinese phones due to a censoring feature in the smartphone giant’s flagship phone. The censoring capability in Xiaomi’s Mi 10T 5G phone […]

September 22, 2021 By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Motors Co on Wednesday named David Strickland, the former top U.S. auto-safety official who now serves as a senior Senate aide, as its regulatory affairs chief as the largest American automaker expands its electric vehicle plans. Detroit-based GM said it is tapping Strickland as vice […]

Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer just announced that he will stepping down from the role next year and transition to a part-time position as a “Senior Fellow” at the company. It’s one of the biggest leadership departures for Facebook in recent memory. He will be replaced in the role by long-time executive Andrew Bosworth […]

If you’ve never struggled to click the correct one of three different download buttons on one of those “YouTube to mp4” websites, well, haven’t you led an honorable internet life! But now, YouTube is testing a feature for Premium subscribers that might render those bootleg websites somewhat obsolete. From now through October 19, Premium users […]

Google today announced a change to its online ads, which will now display new disclosures that allow web searchers to see not just who the advertiser is and why the ad was served to you, but also what other ads the advertiser has run with Google, starting with the most recent. The changes are a […]

September 22, 2021 By Pete Schroeder (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that the Fed is closely monitoring efforts by Wells Fargo & Co to fix its “widespread and pervasive” problems, and that it would take appropriate actions if the bank failed to do so. In 2018, the Federal Reserve ordered Wells […]

September 22, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. labor complaint under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact over a General Motors plant union vote in Mexico has been successfully concluded, lifting the threat that U.S. tariffs could be imposed on the factory’s pickup trucks, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office said on Wednesday. The United States opened the […]

September 22, 2021 By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) -R. Kelly dominated not only women and girls but also his employees over a quarter century of sexual abuse, a prosecutor said on Wednesday as the R&B superstar’s sex trafficking trial neared its conclusion. Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Geddes told jurors during her closing argument in […]

September 22, 2021 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and three other Senate Democrats on Wednesday sent letters to some of the most prolific SPAC dealmakers, voicing concerns over reports that SPAC insiders exploit regulatory loopholes at the expense of retail investors. Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are shell companies that raise funds through […]

September 22, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is giving $247 million in humanitarian aid and $89 million in economic and development aid to Venezuelans, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement on Wednesday. “This assistance supports more than 7 million of the most vulnerable Venezuelans with critical needs inside Venezuela, the nearly 5.7 million Venezuelans […]

September 22, 2021 By Daphne Psaledakis UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Leaders from developing nations warned the U.N. General Assembly this week that COVID-19 vaccine hoarding by wealthy countries left the door open for the emergence of new coronavirus variants even as infections already increase in many places. The Philippines warned of a “man-made drought” of […]

September 22, 2021 CAIRO (Reuters) -Sudanese military leaders said on Wednesday the civilian politicians they share power with had opened the door to a coup attempt by neglecting public welfare while they were consumed by internal squabbles. A body known as the Sovereign Council has ruled Sudan under a fragile power-sharing deal between the military […]

“Unprecedented” only begins to scratch the surface of this past year-and-a-half. Entire industries have been made and broken as the global population struggled to adapt to the largest pandemic in a century. Connected fitness falls firmly in the category that made it. It’s fair to say that 2020 and 2021 have been transformative for home […]

September 22, 2021 By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) – Hedge fund manager William Ackman’s 10% bet on Universal Music Group helped nearly double returns at his own portfolio to 15.3% this week after shares in the world’s biggest music label surged in their first hours as a publicly traded company. Ackman, who runs hedge fund […]

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There’s a lot of value in waste; just ask metals processing company Nth Cycle, which has developed a technology to help mining and recycling companies recover every bit of critical minerals from their operations. The company calls its technology “electro-extraction,” and Nth Cycle’s founder and CEO Megan O’Connor likened it to a water filter in […]

Pollutants pouring from smokestacks around the world may be bad news for the atmosphere, but if you catch them before they get out there, you could reduce emissions and collect some valuable materials at the same time. That’s what Carbix aims to do with its carbon-sequestering reactor, which would extract minerals from emissions while staying […]