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Flying and Climate: Airlines Under Pressure to Cut Emissions
The worst of the pandemic may be over for airlines, but the industry faces another looming crisis: an accounting for its contribution to climate change.Industry is under increasing pressure to do something to reduce and ultimately eliminate…
South Korea passes bill limiting Apple, Google control over app payments
Visitors look at Apple Inc. iPhones and iPads on display in the SK Telecom Co.T Factory flagship store in Seoul, South Korea on June 11, 2021.SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe South Korean parliament has passed a bill making it…
Richard Branson Will Try to Beat Jeff Bezos to Space
Richard Branson, the British billionaire who founded a galaxy of Virgin companies, announced Thursday evening that he would be on the next test flight of the Virgin Galactic spaceplane.This flight is scheduled to take off from Spaceport…
SoftBank-backed Grab agrees to go public in world’s largest SPAC merger
Southeast Asian giant Grab announced Tuesday that it had acquired through a SPAC merger with Altimeter Growth Corp. will go public. The company is valued at $ 39.6 billion - the largest blank check merger to date.Grab says it intends to…
The Greatest Legislation You’ve By no means Heard Of
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.Americans should be annoyed that companies collect every piece of our data to sell us sneakers or to assess our creditworthiness. A data…
Mark Zuckerberg is urged to scrap plans for an Instagram for children.
An international coalition of 35 children's and consumer groups called Instagram Thursday to discard their plans to develop a version of the popular photo-sharing app for users under the age of 13.Instagram is pushing for a separate kids…