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U.S. auto-safety regulators have opened a special crash investigation into a fatal wreck involving a Tesla Inc. vehicle that has left three people dead. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration disclosed the probe Wednesday, identifying the vehicle as a 2022 Tesla Model S. It added the incident to a list of auto crashes it is investigating that are potentially linked to semiautonomous driving features. The regulatory agency has disclosed it is investigating more…

Days into his role as CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, WBD -1.99% David Zaslav gathered movie-studio executives and grilled them about a recent string of box-office flops, including “Cry Macho,” a Clint Eastwood neo-Western.Warner Bros. executives conceded they had doubted the movie would turn a profit, people familiar with the meeting said. Why, Mr. Zaslav asked, was “Cry Macho” made if they had reservations? When they replied that Mr.…

With his professed concern about fake accounts on Twitter, TWTR 2.49% Elon Musk appears to be grasping at legal straws in an attempt to back out of his commitment to buy the social networking company for $54.20 a share, or at least to pay less for it. But his gambit has shined a light on a real scourge of online companies and their users.Counting the autonomous accounts that mimic real people is just as slippery as valuing companies. A 2020 study by…

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When Lucy Yu was 7 years old, she told her mom she wanted to retire and open a bookstore one day. She'd always loved reading and, as the only child raised primarily by her single mother who immigrated from China, turned to books as a source of comfort.Now, at age 27, Yu is living that retirement dream as her full-time job. In December, she opened Yu and Me Books in Manhattan's Chinatown, New York City's first Asian American woman-owned bookstore that centers works from authors of color, immigrants and people from…

One thing not in short supply right now are product announcements in the online travel sector. Over the past two weeks both Airbnb ABNB 2.62% and Uber Technologies UBER 2.46% have unveiled big, multipronged platform updates, ostensibly to better serve consumers and make them more comfortable using their platforms as pent-up travel demand surges. The changes are as crucial to their…

The first rule: Don’t force somebody to be a buddy. It probably won’t end well. The first rule: Don’t force somebody to be a buddy. It probably won’t end well. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to…

Some of the economy’s most in-demand employees are about to find out how much power they have over where and how they work. After months of return-to-work starts and stops, many tech companies, including Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 2.96% Google, Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. MSFT 2.26% , are telling remote workers it’s finally time to come back for good, or at least show up part of the week. Employees who fled the Bay Area…

They say it’s less painful to deal with microaggressions at home. But they may pay a price for being away from the office. They say it’s less painful to deal with microaggressions at home. But they may pay a price for being away from the office. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

Rising used-car prices, which have been a big contributor to inflation over the past year, are starting to ease with dealers saying buyers are pushing back on what they are willing to spend.During the pandemic, prices for preowned vehicles climbed 45%, hitting an average of $29,969 at the end of last year and rising faster than those for brand-new vehicles, according to data from research-firm Edmunds. The climb has been driven in large part by a shortage of new vehicles, which have also surged in price and left buyers…