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Defense Supplier Settles Over Fake Test Claims
The DOJ said the company failed to conduct required metallurgic and other tests on castings.
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GM Offering Not-So-Optional OnStar Subscription
OnStar will be available in select vehicles for three years.
August 12, 2022
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Bezos, Gates Hunting for Buried Treasure to Power EVs
Melting ice is revealing land that had been buried for centuries.
August 11, 2022
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How the Top Automakers Made Out in Automony's Major EV Order
The order was for some 23,000 electric vehicles valued at approximately $1.2 billion.
August 11, 2022
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Special Ops Plane Started as a Crop Duster
The aircraft will be used by operators such as Delta Force and the Navy SEALs.
August 10, 2022
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Torched Manufacturing Building Not Up To Code
The fire has been burning for days.
August 10, 2022
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Welding Cobot Increases Productivity
The FastARC CW can be managed by a less skilled worker.
August 12, 2022
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Modular Safety Shower Decontamination Booth
The modular nature of the design also allows the shower to be moved from one site to another.
August 12, 2022
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation has opened a query into seat belt pretensioners on certain 2020-2022 Kia/Hyundai vehicles, saying that they may rupture or explode.
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Kia/Hyundai Seat Belt Pretensioners Under Investigation
They may rupture or explode.
August 12, 2022
One of Pacific Gas & Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif., is viewed Nov. 3, 2008. The California Energy Commission is holding a three-hour workshop focused on the state's power needs in the climate change era and what role the power plant might have in maintaining reliable electricity.
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California Officials Ponder Nuclear Future
Nuke or no nuke?
August 12, 2022
A motorist fills up the tank on a sedan, Saratoga, Wyo., July 22, 2022.
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Amid Mixed Inflation Signs, Where Are Prices Going?
Has the worst bout of inflation in four decades peaked?
August 12, 2022
Lina Khan, then-nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 21, 2021.
Laws & Regulations
FTC Looks to Corral Tech Firms' Data Collection
How data is being used and protected has led to growing public concern and officials' outrage.
August 12, 2022
A person picks through trash for reusable items as a fire rages at the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi, April 27, 2022. Landfills are releasing far more planet-warming methane into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste than previously thought, a study suggests. Smoke hung over New Delhi for days after the massive landfill caught fire as the country was sweltering in an extreme heat wave.
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Satellite Data Finds Landfills are Methane 'Super Emitters'
New study aimed at helping local governments carry out targeted efforts to limit global warming by pinpointing specific sites of major concern.
August 12, 2022
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Oregon Crime Ring Moved $22M in Catalytic Converters
The crime ring spanned Oregon counties and Washington state, Nevada, California, Texas and New York.
August 12, 2022
Packages riding on a belt are scanned to be loaded onto delivery trucks at the Amazon Fulfillment center in Robbinsville Township, N.J., on Aug. 1, 2017.
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OSHA Investigates Deaths of Amazon Workers
All three workers died within the past month and were employed at company facilities in New Jersey.
August 12, 2022
PetroChina, China Life and China Petroleum & Chemical, widely known as Sinopec, said the shares affected were American depositary shares, or ADSs, that represent shares traded in Hong Kong.
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Three Chinese Corporate Giants Leaving NY Stock Exchange
Two of the three are PetroChina Ltd. and Sinopec.
August 12, 2022
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J&J Vaccine Factory Forced to Trash More Doses
About 135 million more doses will have to be destroyed due to quality problems at the troubled plant.
August 12, 2022
Samsung Electronics Co. Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong gets out of a car at the Seoul High Court in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 22, 2019. South Korea's president will pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong with a year left on his sentence for bribing a president as part of a massive corruption scandal that toppled her government, the justice minister announced Friday, Aug. 12. 2022.
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Samsung's Lee, Other Corporate Giants to Get Pardoned
Samsung's leader was convicted for bribing a former president in a corruption scandal that toppled a previous South Korean government.
August 12, 2022
In this April 15, 2011 file photo, a bottle of Johnson's baby powder is displayed in San Francisco. Johnson & Johnson is pulling its iconic, talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder from shelves worldwide next year in favor of a product based on cornstarch. The health care giant’s announcement Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, comes two years after it ended talc-based powder sales in the U.S. and Canada, where demand has dwindled amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it had caused cancer.
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J&J to End Sales of Baby Powder with Talc Globally Next Year
The company has faced thousands of lawsuits alleging its talcum powder caused users to develop cancer.
August 12, 2022
The KR1018 7-axis cobot will be mounted on an AGV equipped with a magazine and control system and used to restock cabling machines for a U.S. company in the textile industry.
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Cobots Help a U.S. Textile Company Automate Restocking for Back-to-School Shopping
It has a payload of 18 kg and a reach of 1,000 mm.
August 11, 2022