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Facebook to deliver News Corp stories following mass demand

Shawdesh Desk: Facebook on Friday confirmed that some stories from News Corp, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, will be delivered at a new ‘tab’ planned at the leading social

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Netflix heads into showdown with slowing subscriber growth

Shawdesh Desk: Netflix’s subscriber growth is bogging down even before the leading video streaming service confronts high-powered threats from Apple and Walt Disney Co. The latest sign of the challenges

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Google touts privacy options, but still depends on your data

Shawdesh Desk: Google’s latest phone and smart-home devices came packaged with a not-so-subtle message: Google cares about your privacy. Does it? The tech company has had a complicated relationship with

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China’s blacklisted AI firms What you should know

Shawdesh desk: The Chinese high-tech companies blacklisted by Washington over alleged ties to rights abuses are rising stars in China’s ambitious drive to overtake the United States in the technology

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Two NASA astronauts complete nearly 7-hour spacewalk

Shawdesh Desk: Two U.S. astronauts wrapped up a spacewalk out of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, the second in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace

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Nobel prize honors breakthroughs on lithium-ion batteries

Shawdesh Desk: If you’re reading this on a cellphone or laptop computer, you might thank the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on lithium-ion

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Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

Shawdesh Desk: Facebook has agreed to pay $40 million to advertisers who said it inflated the amount of time its users watched videos. The San Jose Mercury News says the

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Japan’s JERA invests USD 330 million to buy 22 percent stake in Summit Power

Shawdesh Desk: In a move to establish major energy infrastructure, including power generation projects in Bangladesh, Japan’s largest energy company JERA Co., Inc. (“JERA”), has acquired a 22% stake in

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