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We asked you what honest slogans youâd like to see from oil and gas companies. Tom suggested, âOil and gas production: because if we donât do it, someone else will,â which is about as simple and sad as it gets.
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The White House would like Tesla to keep the US charging standard connection (CCS) alive. The automaker could access billions of dollars in federal subsidies if it added that port to its EV charging station.
Binance is breaking up with the US dollar. The cryptocurrency exchange made the decision because the American banks it was working with were ready to stop dollar withdrawals as soon as June 13. Read more about cryptoâs insecurity complex.
A judge ruled Apple and Amazon must face a price-fixing lawsuit. The two companies sought to dismiss the lawsuit that accused them of inflating the prices of iPhones and iPads.
Netflixâs password sharing crackdown did exactly what it was supposed to. Its number of subscribers shot up sharply, with daily signups reaching as high as 100,000.
Indiaâs engineers are looking elsewhere for work
Indiaâs most sought-after engineering graduates are taking their talents abroad: a third of them are leaving the country after their studies are over. Such highly skilled workers make up 65% of the migrants heading to the US alone. Read more about this talent migration in a report from Quartzâs Mimansa Verma.
Reddit faces a 48-hour blackout
âWe respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private. We are all responsible for ensuring Reddit provides an open accessible place for people to find community and belonging.â
âReddit CEO Steve Huffman reacting to a protest by the platformâs moderators that will see thousands of subreddits go dark for 48 hours starting today (June 12) to oppose charging developers of third-party apps for access to Redditâs API.
Sam Altmanâs global roadshow
The CEO of OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT, is on a globe-trotting mission to shape potential regulation against its technology.
Sam Altman has exchanged words with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and sat down with South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol. Heâs traveled to Israel, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. And that was just last week. As Quartzâs Michelle Cheng explains, the schmoozing campaign is about striking a fine balance between public harm and innovation.
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Four kids survived in the Amazon for 40 days after a plane crash. They relied on cassava flour and fruit to stay alive.
Slamming energy drinks may not be that bad for you. At least one ingredient, taurine, is linked with longer and healthier lives in mice, monkeys, and worms.
Watch out for pyro-tornadogenesis. Yep, thatâs a fire tornado, and thereâs a good chance theyâll become much more common.
Turtles can be taxis for fairy shrimp. The tiny crustaceans are ferried across African wetlands after passing through the reptilesâ digestive systems.
Englandâs coastal waters are full of drugs. Prescription and recreational substances in wastewater are biologically changing fish.
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