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Lady Gaga and the producer Bruce Cohen (American Beauty, Silver Linings Playbook) on Thursday were appointed co-chairs of President Joe Biden’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a board featuring top names across the arts tasked with advising the president on cultural issues. The committee is making its return after a five-year hiatus, when the board disbanded under the Trump administration in protest of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, in which Trump had said…

Tesla generates most of its money from its electric car business, but Musk has committed to grow its solar energy and battery business to roughly the same size.The leader of a US congressional committee on China said on Monday he was concerned about electric carmaker Tesla Inc's dependency on China, a day after the company revealed plans to open a Megapack battery factory in Shanghai. Tesla announced the factory in a tweet on Sunday, and Chinese state media said it would initially produce 10,000 Megapack units a year,…

China's government could use TikTok to control data on millions of American users, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a US Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying the Chinese-owned video app "screams" of security concerns.Wray told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to US security that the Chinese government could also use TikTok to control software on millions of devices and drive narratives to divide Americans over Taiwan or other issues."Yes, and I would make the point on that last one, in…

Starbucks Corp. SBUX -1.57% interim Chief Executive Howard Schultz has agreed to testify before a Senate committee, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday, the latest development in the 18-month conflict between the company and U.S. baristas seeking to unionize. Mr. Sanders, an Independent who is chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, has accused the company of flouting…

The parliamentary standing committee has given its go-ahead to the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which will now be introduced in the upcoming second half of the budget session of Parliament, electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.“Want to share some good news that the parliamentary standing committee on IT and communications, which is the committee that deals with this subject. Before this is introduced to Parliament, they have in advance examined it and they have…

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has voted to advance legislation that would give President Joe Biden the power to ban TikTok in the US along with other apps owned by Chinese companies. The panel approved the the Deterring America’s Technological Adversaries (DATA) Act in a 24-16 vote. All Republicans on the panel were in favor while every Democrat voted against the bill. There are several more steps that the bill needs to go through before it becomes law. The full House and the Senate would have to pass it, and Biden…

Photo: Cindy Ord (Getty Images)A fast-tracked, vague Republican bill granting the Biden administration the ability to impose a nationwide TikTok ban moved a step closer toward legality on Tuesday after passing a vote in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The sweeping new legislation, if passed into law, would grant the Biden administration the ability to totally ban TikTok or other foreign software companies believed to be involved in the transfer of “sensitive data.” Critics, including the American Civil Liberties…

In a bid to empower millions of Indian social media users, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, launched the Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) that will look into their concerns regarding content and other issues.The IT Ministry last month notified to establish three Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) as required under the recently amended IT Rules, 2021."The move is to make sure that the internet remains open and safe for users in the country. These are early days for the committee and it…

Committee ranking member Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) (R) speaks as Chairman Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) (L) listens during a hearing before Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee at Dirksen Senate Office Building December 14, 2022Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images)Lawmakers from opposing parties disagreed over who and what was truly to blame for a devastating crypto crash that left customers collectively burnout out of billions in losses during a Wednesday Senate Banking Committee hearing. While Democratic lawmakers…

Senator Dick Durbin waves his cell phone at a crowd of advocates calling for change.Screenshot: Senate Committee on the Judiciary / Gizmodo“The last search on his phone before Carson ended his life was for hacks to find out the identities of his abusers,” said Kristin Bride, the parent of a child suicide victimand a social media reform advocate. Bride testified before a panel of senators about the cyberbullying that led to her son’s death and the other problems that plague kids online. “These are not coincidences,…