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The iPhone 12 emits too much radiation and Apple must take it off the market, French agency says
Sep 13, 2023 3:31 PM - French regulators ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12, saying it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above European Union standards for exposure. The company disputed the findings and said the device complies with regulations.
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U.S. claims Google pays more than $10 billion a year to maintain its search dominance
Sep 12, 2023 3:36 PM - Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice charged Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century.
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Battery manufacturing plant coming to Manteno -- with $530M incentive dealSep 8, 2023 5:08 PM - A new battery manufacturing plant is set to open in northern Illinois next year after the state offered more than $330 million in tax incentives to make it happen.
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Online gig work is growing rapidly, but workers lack job protections, a World Bank report saysSep 7, 2023 8:08 AM - Online gig work is growing globally, particularly in the developing world, creating an important source of employment for women and young people in poorer countries where jobs are scarce, according to a World Bank report released Thursday.
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Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little or no control over data collected
Sep 6, 2023 1:28 PM - Most major car manufacturers admit they may be selling your personal information -- though they are vague on the buyers, a new study finds, and half say they would share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order.
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Zebra Technologies to shed 700 jobs
Aug 29, 2023 9:07 PM - Facing a sharp downturn in orders, Zebra Technologies is making plans to shed 700 workers, many of them older employees. The Lincolnshire-based company has said in a regulatory filing it will reduce its global employee head count by 7% via buyouts, or what it called a "voluntary retirement plan." In its 2022 annual report, Zebra said it had 10,500 workers.
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Facebook's parent company Meta and moderators suing it for $1.6 billion in Kenya agree to mediation
Aug 23, 2023 8:22 AM - Meta, Facebook's parent company, and 184 of its content moderators who were based in Kenya agreed Wednesday on a mediation attempt to settle out of court.
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Jones appointed Argonne's deputy laboratory directorAug 21, 2023 2:35 PM - The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has named Sean Jones as deputy laboratory director for science and technology.
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Biden administration announces more new funding for rural broadband infrastructure
Aug 21, 2023 8:13 AM - The Biden administration on Monday continued its push toward internet-for-all by 2030, announcing about $667 million in new grants and loans to build more broadband infrastructure in the rural U.S.
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Egen announces merger with California companyAug 16, 2023 2:43 PM - Naperville-based Egen, a cloud migration, application modernization and platform engineering provider, said Wednesday it has merged with Pleasanton, California-based SprinML. SpringML is a technology services company with cloud, data engineering, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
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