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Disney said Thursday its streaming services flourished while its parks, travel and film businesses remained hobbled by the pandemic at the end of last year. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-disney-streaming-gaining-ground-netflix.html Business Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:30:01 EST news532328466 The Biden administration asked a US court Thursday to suspend litigation connected to former president Donald Trump's proposed ban on WeChat while it reviews the policy. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-biden-team-wechat-litigation.html Business Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:20:01 EST news532328313 Microsoft on Thursday lobbied for other countries to follow Australia's lead in calling for news outlets to be paid for stories published online, a move opposed by Facebook and Google. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-microsoft-news-worldwide.html Business Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:10:01 EST news532328238 Australia on Friday moved a step closer to introducing pioneering legislation that would force tech giants to pay for sharing news content, a move that could change how people worldwide experience the internet. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-world-australia-big-tech.html Business Fri, 12 Feb 2021 05:00:02 EST news532328206 The second Jennifer Bates walks away from her post at the Amazon warehouse where she works, the clock starts ticking. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-amazon-biggest-union-history.html Business Fri, 12 Feb 2021 04:39:44 EST news532327180 Australia's Parliament will debate making Google and Facebook pay for news after a Senate committee on Friday recommended no changes to drafts of the world's first such laws. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-australia-google-facebook-news.html Internet Fri, 12 Feb 2021 04:31:51 EST news532326701 The Biden administration is assessing immediate steps to address the semiconductor shortage and plans an executive order to shore up critical supply chain items, a White House spokeswoman said Thursday. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-biden-semiconductor-crunch.html Business Thu, 11 Feb 2021 15:01:44 EST news532278101 When General Motors boldly announced its goal last month to make only battery-powered vehicles by 2035, it didn't just mark a break with more than a century of making internal combustion engines. It also clouded the future for 50,000 GM workers whose skills—and jobs—could become obsolete far sooner than they knew. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-autoworkers-dimmer-future-era-electric.html Business Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:33:48 EST news532269223 Hydrogen technology has the potential to transform aspects of the energy landscape, according to a new report from Argonne scientists. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-scientists-benefits-hydrogen-production.html Business Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:29:35 EST news532254572 Uber on Wednesday reported another hefty loss in the final three months of 2020, though the company's food delivery operations partly offset the hit taken from the decline in ridesharing during the pandemic. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-uber-big-loss-pandemic-clobbers.html Business Thu, 11 Feb 2021 04:20:25 EST news532239622 Facial recognition software developed by China-based Dahua, one of the world's largest manufacturers of video surveillance technology, purports to detect the race of individuals caught on camera and offers to alert police clients when it identifies members of the Turkic ethnic group Uighurs. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-major-camera-company-people-police.html Business Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:22:06 EST news532196522 For the third time in three years, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Amazon to stop selling illegal pesticides on its online marketplace, saying the chemicals pose "a significant and immediate health risk to consumers, children, pets, and others exposed to the products." https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-epa-amazon-illegal-pesticides.html Business Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:21:22 EST news532196474 The Biden administration is backing off former President Donald Trump's attempts to ban the popular video app TikTok, asking a court to postpone a legal dispute over the proposed ban as the government begins a broader review of the national security threats posed by Chinese technology companies. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-tiktok-sale-trump-shelved.html Business Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:00:20 EST news532191616 Messaging apps such as Messenger or WhatsApp and video calls on Zoom face stricter privacy rules in Europe, after a draft law passed a key EU hurdle on Wednesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-tougher-eu-privacy-loom-messenger.html Business Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:15:46 EST news532174543 Most employees at Salesforce will be able to work remotely indefinitely under a new policy unveiled by the cloud computing giant, which says the 9-to-5 workday is "dead." https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-flexible-policy-salesforce-workday.html Business Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:12:21 EST news532174339 Europe's leading airline, Ryanair, urged Wednesday that Air France be forced to give up lucrative French airport slots if it receives more state aid. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-air-france-slots-aid-ryanair.html Business Wed, 10 Feb 2021 10:11:32 EST news532174290 Vestas, the global leader in wind turbines, posted stronger annual results Wednesday and said it was looking to expand crucial offshore operations with a giant new model. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-turbine-giant-vestas-offshore-strong.html Business Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:27:39 EST news532164456 "When I talked about this before the pandemic, people thought I was crazy . Now they tell me I was right after all," said Arnaud Wilbrod, a French freelance editor who moved to the Estonian capital Tallinn after his home country went into lockdown. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-covid-prompts-grasp-digital-nomad.html Business Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:40:01 EST news532139081 When WhatsApp users began to raise concerns about a new privacy policy being rolled out, members of a Washington pickup soccer group decided to switch their communications to rival messaging platform Signal, ditching the Facebook-owned service. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-whatsapp-importance-message-platform-facebook.html Internet Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:23:11 EST news532138986 Snapchat will launch a new feature that prompts users to review their friends lists and ask if they still want to be connected to them. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-snapchat-feature-prompts-users-friends.html Business Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:16:13 EST news532106170 Air Canada announced Tuesday the suspension of 17 US and international routes until the end of April and layoffs of 1,500 workers, citing a drop in demand for travel after a tightening of public health restrictions to slow the spread of new COVID-19 variants. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-air-canada-international-routes.html Business Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:10:15 EST news532105813 Boeing raised cash in January by delivering 26 new planes—including 21 Max jets—to airline customers, but it still suffered canceled orders for the plane with a troubled history. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-boeing-max-jets-airlines.html Business Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:08:22 EST news532105701 Most of the world is yet to experience the benefits of a 5G network, but the geopolitical race for the next big thing in telecommunications technology is already heating up. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-5g-china-6g-dominance.html Business Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:04:25 EST news532098256 Reddit, the online bulletin board at the center of the recent stock market frenzy, said Tuesday it had raised some $250 million at a valuation of $6 billion to fuel expansion of the service. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-buoyed-stock-mania-reddit-fresh.html Business Tue, 09 Feb 2021 09:47:37 EST news532086454 The family of a college student who killed himself after thinking he'd lost a fortune using Robinhood sued the free trading app Monday. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-family-sues-app-robinhood-suicide.html Business Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:39:29 EST news532067967 Delta Air Lines said Monday it will continue to block some seats on all flights through spring break and Easter to provide a bit more space between passengers. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-delta-air-lines-middle-seats.html Business Tue, 09 Feb 2021 04:28:11 EST news532067286 DoorDash is buying automated food prep company Chowbotics to expand its fresh meal offerings. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-doordash-robot-food-prep-company.html Business Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:42:51 EST news532021369 Universal Music Group said it has pulled its music from Triller after no agreement had been reached with the L.A. music video app. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-universal-music-group-streaming-app.html Business Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:00:06 EST news532018572 The long-rumored Apple car might finally become a reality. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-apple-electric-self-driving-car.html Business Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:55:47 EST news532018543 Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama have begun voting on whether to form the first American union at the e-commerce giant, an effort that could pave the way for further unionization in the United States at one of the world's most powerful companies. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-voting-amazon-warehouse-union-vote.html Business Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:53:38 EST news532014816