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A recent ban of TikTok use on US government-owned devices, coupled with new legislation in Congress seeking to block the app, have fueled expectations the popular Chinese-owned platform could soon be barred nationwide.Adding to the perception, last week the company said the Biden administration had demanded TikTok's owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible ban.It is unclear how the Biden administration might implement such a ban, if it chose to move forward with a plan, but if history is any…

When do four soloists become a quartet? Group biographies are increasingly ubiquitous, but they are hard to pull off. Quartet is a passionate four-part fugue, intertwining the lives of composers Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen. Smyth detested being banded with other female composers, and this book never really clarifies why its subjects should be put together. They were not close friends or collaborators, and they shared the Earth for just two decades of Quartet’s 145-year span. The…

In 1977, 90-year-old Rebecca Clarke was at Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan to hear a performance of her Viola Sonata, written more than half a century earlier. Clarke had been a successful composer, the Sonata her breakthrough work – and yet for most of the audience her music was still an unexpected discovery. “Had she not been a woman composer,” conceded the New York Times, “Miss Clarke might be heard more today.” Soon afterwards, Clarke reflected that there had always been people who could not believe that her muscular,…

Hertz is teaming up with the city of Denver — and soon, it hopes, with other cities — to build out its charging infrastructure to support the ongoing transition to electric vehicles.The partnership is a big step toward helping rental car drivers, including those who may be renting an EV for the first time or in an unfamiliar area, to navigate the often-daunting task of finding a charge. It'll also see Denver boost availability and education around EVs in a first-of-its-kind effort.As part of the program, called "Hertz…

Twitter India is reportedly giving up their co-working facilities in India! Read more tech news Good Morning Tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: In the Midst of Tech Layoffs and WFH Demands, Meta and Microsoft are Closing Their Offices in The United States. Fast-Track Insights: SHIBA INU Launches Shibarium Beta L2 Blockchain Platform Using $Bone as Native Token. Twitter India is reportedly closing their co-working facilities in India as the company continues to explore for…

The Ontario government has officially done away with environmental protections for approximately 2,995 hectares of Greenbelt land in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) despite consultations indicating "broad opposition" to the plan. Cabinet passed two regulations on Dec. 14 that enact its controversial plan to remove land in 15 different areas from the Greenbelt and Oak Ridges Moraine — a vast 810,000-hectare area of farmland, forest and wetland stretching from Niagara Falls to Peterborough that's permanently…

The Echo business has always looked like Amazon playing the long game from the outside. Above all, the company’s home consumer hardware is a convenient vessel for getting Alexa into millions of homes. But when a corporation is doing some serious belt tightening amid broader economic headwinds, no divisions are safe from cost cutting — certainly not one that is reportedly operating at a $5 billion a year revenue loss. The Wall Street Journal this week noted that Amazon’s devices group could be the latest to get hit…

Amazon.com Inc. AMZN 4.31% Chief Executive Andy Jassy is leading a cost-cutting review of the tech giant and paring back on businesses at the company that haven’t been profitable, according to people familiar with the matter.As part of the monthslong cost-cutting review, Amazon’s leadership is closely evaluating its Alexa business, according to some of the people. The business has more than 10,000 employees and is a major recipient of…

As companies publish pay details for job openings under new laws in New York City, some are listing maximum pay figures that are more than double the minimum pay for the job, stretching salary ranges to hundreds of thousands of dollars for certain careers.A trauma surgeon in the Mount Sinai Health System could earn anywhere from $384,000 to $800,000 or more, the hospital’s job ads say. A tax executive at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP could make $158,400—or nearly triple that. At AT&T Inc.,…

Twitter Inc. is drafting plans for broad layoffs, according to people familiar with the matter, days after the social-media platform was taken private by billionaire Elon Musk for $44 billion. The proposed layoffs are expected to reduce engineering positions as well as affect other areas at the company, one of the people said. Twitter has roughly 7,500 employees, according to a disclosure earlier this year. The full scale of cuts being discussed couldn’t be determined.…