Author Archives: Syndicated Content
U.S. lawmakers press Big Tech for internal research on kids' mental health
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Four Republican U.S. lawmakers requested on Tuesday that Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google turn over any studies they have done on how their services affec...
Mar 30, 2021
U.S. administers 147.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines: CDC
(Reuters) - The United States has administered 147,602,345 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday morning and distributed 189,451,285 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and P...
Mar 30, 2021
Google, U.S. government tangle over pre-trial document production
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for Alphabet's Google and the government tangled on Tuesday over how many documents related to the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against the search and advertis...
Mar 30, 2021
FCC commissioner to urge tougher steps on Chinese network equipment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr on Tuesday plans to call for new steps to ensure Huawei Technologies and ZTE equipment is barred from U.S. telecommunications ne...
Mar 30, 2021
Italy says talks with EU on Alitalia stalled, new plan needed
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Industry Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Tuesday that negotiations with the European Commission over how to relaunch ailing carrier Alitalia were stalled and the governme...
Mar 30, 2021
Germany decides AstraZeneca vaccine can be used for over 60s, document shows
BERLIN (Reuters) - German federal and state health ministries agreed that from Wednesday AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine can be used for people aged 60 and older following further reports of a rare bra...
Mar 30, 2021
U.S., Central Asian countries agree to focus on digital trade issues
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior trade officials from the United States met on Tuesday with their counterparts from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan on a range of tra...
Mar 30, 2021
Ireland to require additional COVID test from passengers on arrival
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland is to require arriving passengers to take a COVID-19 test on arrival in addition to one taken in the days before traveling, Deputy Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Tuesda...
Mar 30, 2021
U.S. human rights report blasts China over Uighurs, Russia's targeting of Navalny
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States highlighted a deteriorating picture for human rights across the world on Tuesday, calling out China's repression of Uighurs and Russia's targeting of political...
Mar 30, 2021
Arm Ltd debuts new chip technology aimed at overtaking data centers
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Arm Ltd, the British technology firm whose chip technology powers most of the world's smartphones, on Tuesday released a new generation of technology aimed at taking over...
Mar 30, 2021
