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Mercedes, BMW Reveal Battery Makers Amid Fire Fears in Korea

Mercedes, BMW Reveal Battery Makers Amid Fire Fears in Korea

The South Korean units of Mercedes-Benz Group AG and BMW AG disclosed the names of the companies that supply their electric-vehicle batteries for the first time after an EV explosion in the country prompted a nationwide safety investigation. The German carmakers revealed the battery suppliers for their EV models Tuesday on their websites, after Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Corp. shared the names of their battery makers in recent days. At a meeting Tuesday, the government said it planned to advise all EV makers to voluntarily disclose the names of battery suppliers, and offer free inspections to owners. Source link…
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India Watchdog to Withdraw Report Accusing Apple of Market Abuse

India Watchdog to Withdraw Report Accusing Apple of Market Abuse

Sign up for the India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi – an insider's guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise, delivered weekly.India’s antitrust regulator will withdraw a report that found Apple Inc. abused its dominance of the domestic market, backtracking for now from its high-profile investigation into the US company. Source link lol
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UK Energy Regulator Signs Off on £3.4 Billion Electricity ‘Superhighway’

UK Energy Regulator Signs Off on £3.4 Billion Electricity ‘Superhighway’

UK energy regulator Ofgem gave the green light to a £3.4 billion ($4.4 billion) funding package to build a proposed electricity “superhighway” under the North Sea.The project entails laying a 500-kilometer (311-mile) cable between Scotland and northern England to power as many as 2 million homes, the watchdog said in a statement on Tuesday. It’s the first of 26 projects in Ofgem’s fast-track funding process for offshore wind power. Source link lol
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How Politics Will Expand Into the Final Frontier

How Politics Will Expand Into the Final Frontier

Listen and subscribe to the Voternomics series on the In the City and Stephanomics podcast feeds on Apple, Spotify and the Bloomberg Terminal.The rapid commercialization of space is launching the world into an “era of astropolitics,” journalist and author Tim Marshall tells host Allegra Stratton on this episode of Voternomics.Commercial companies are driving “Space Race 2.0,” from commercial fleets of satellites a few hundred miles above Earth to NASA’s search for private companies to bring back a piece of the moon. Ultimately, Marshall says, entities are eyeing the lucrative prospect of mining extraterrestrial objects for resources needed to provide renewable…
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The Sleepy Czech Town Helping Europe Compete in the Global Chip War

The Sleepy Czech Town Helping Europe Compete in the Global Chip War

The Czech town of Roznov pod Radhostem was best known for its rum-drizzled sweet pies and an open-air museum showing off historical wooden houses. Then came an announcement that stirred the sleepy backwater.US chipmaker ON Semiconductor Corp. picked Roznov for a new $2 billion manufacturing hubBloomberg Terminal in June. The past few weeks have seen a flurry of visits by property developers, the head of a local university and government officials followed around by television crews. Source link lol
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White Supremacists Turn UK Riots Into Online Recruiting Pitch

White Supremacists Turn UK Riots Into Online Recruiting Pitch

White supremacist groups have seized on riots in the UK as a recruiting opportunity, using the Telegram messaging site to promote conspiracy theories and incite violence in their bid to lure new members.Hard-line organizations previously designated by the UK as domestic terrorists are calling for an overthrow of the British government with posts that say “the revolution has started.” Some extremist Telegram users have openly discussed how to capitalize on anti-immigrant sentiment in the UK to steer Britons to radicalized communities, according to findings from Logically, a UK-based firm that tracks online disinformation. Source link lol
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Turkey to Lift Instagram Ban on Pledge to Work ‘Jointly’

Turkey to Lift Instagram Ban on Pledge to Work ‘Jointly’

Turkey will lift its ban on Instagram, saying the social media site has promised to meet government demands on censorship and content.Turkey’s internet regulator halted Instagram access on Aug. 2 without explaining why. It came after a senior aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the platform for what he described as “censorship” of posts related to the death of Ismail Haniyeh, political chief of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Source link lol
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TikTok Shows Less ‘Anti-China’ Content Than Rivals, Study Finds

TikTok Shows Less ‘Anti-China’ Content Than Rivals, Study Finds

Videos condemning or negatively depicting China’s human rights abuses are more difficult to find on TikTok than other rival networks, a new study finds, suggesting that US users may be getting an incomplete picture of the country’s history when searching for key terms or phrases. US TikTok users who search for terms like “Tiananmen,” “Tibet,” and “Uyghur” — words commonly used in Chinese Communist Party propaganda — see less “anti-China” content than those same searches produce on Instagram and YouTube, according to a new study from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University. Source link lol
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