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ByteDance says proposal on TikTok still needs China, U.S. approvals
BEIJING (Reuters) - ByteDance's proposal for U.S. software firm Oracle to become a technology partner in its TikTok app still needs approval from Chinese and U.S. officials, the company said on Thursd...
Sep 17, 2020
The future is cyborg: Kaspersky study finds support for human augmentation
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly two thirds of people in leading Western European countries would consider augmenting the human body with technology to improve their lives, mostly to improve health, accordin...
Sep 17, 2020
ByteDance’s bid to keep most of TikTok faces major hurdles
By Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's ByteDance faces an uphill struggle to convince the White House to allow it to keep majority ownership of its popular short video app TikTok in the United Stat...
Sep 17, 2020
The Musk Method: Learn from partners then go it alone
By Paul Lienert, Norihiko Shirouzu and Edward Taylor (Reuters) - Elon Musk is hailed as an innovator and disruptor who went from knowing next to nothing about building cars to running the world's most...
Sep 17, 2020
‘It’s their call’: Australia regulator dares Facebook to block news content
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will be "weakened" if it stops Australians from sharing news so the company can avoid paying for content under proposed laws, Australia's top antitrust re...
Sep 17, 2020
Huawei phone prices rise in China on fears of chip shortage
By David Kirton SHENZHEN (Reuters) - Chinese consumers are rushing to buy smartphones from Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] featuring its high-end Kirin chips, fearing curbs on the firm's access to...
Sep 16, 2020
LG Chem plans to separate electric car battery business as a new company
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Chem, an electric car battery supplier for Tesla Inc and GM, said on Thursday it plans to separate its battery business as a new company in December. The new company...
Sep 16, 2020
U.S. says WeChat users will not be penalized
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WeChat users will not face civil or criminal penalties even if the United States bans the Chinese-owned messaging app through other actions next week, the Ju...
Sep 16, 2020
AT&T’s Warner Bros Games unveils Harry Potter role-playing game
(Reuters) - AT&T Inc's Warner Bros Games on Wednesday unveiled a Harry Potter game, "Hogwarts Legacy," that will let players experience life as a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizar...
Sep 16, 2020
Sony PlayStation 5 to launch November priced $499.99 and $399.99
TOKYO/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Wednesday the next-generation PlayStation 5 console would launch in November priced at $499.99 and $399.99 for a version without a disk drive, as it squar...
Sep 16, 2020
