Deep in rural Western Australia, the massive Pilbara Minerals processing plant looms above the red dirt, vibrating as tons of lithium ore slurry move through… Read More »Australia is trying to break its dependence on China for lithium mining
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In cutting off foreign tech companies from Chinese supply chains, Beijing has long chosen to work obliquely or even secretly. Supervisors lectured executives in backrooms,… Read More »China escalates US tech war with micron ban
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TikTok sued Monday to prevent Montana from banning the popular video app, stepping up its efforts to stop a ban that would be the first… Read More »TikTok is suing Montana for state ban
Rick Wolff’s resume is about as long as a major league roster, his disparate professions bound together by a adoration of sports and a fascination… Read More »Rick Wolff, sports radio host and many more, is dead at age 71
Europes GDPR has just delivered its biggest hammer blow yet. Almost exactly five years after the continent’s strict data regulations went into effect, Meta has… Read More »Meta’s $1.3 billion fine is a strike against surveillance capitalism
Enlarge / A class action lawsuit alleges that DoorDash makes it seem to customers that the distance and effort of a delivery are changing rates,… Read More »Lawsuit accuses DoorDash of charging iPhone users more for identical orders
The number of Americans flying this summer could eclipse the prepandemic high of 2019. That would be great news for airlines, but it could also… Read More »Airlines and FAA are trying to prevent the meltdown of summer travel
Credit…Desiree Rios/The New York Times Eight years after a controversy over black people being falsely labeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite… Read More »Google’s Photos app still can’t find gorillas. And neither can Apple’s.
“You have to communicate as vividly and clearly as possible that you are on a different trajectory. And the stronger the break with the past,… Read More »Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino teeters on the Glass Cliff
Another person has died in an outbreak of highly drug-resistant bacteria linked to contaminated eye drops, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in… Read More »Another dead in a horrific eyedrop outbreak that now spans 18 states
