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Reports: 50,000 Phone Numbers Worldwide on List Linked to Israeli Spyware

An Israeli firm accused of supplying spyware to governments has been linked to a list of tens of thousands of smartphone numbers, including those of activists, journalists, business executives and politicians around the world, according to reports.

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Nissan Unveils UK Battery Gigafactory as Electric Drive Speeds Up

Nissan launched plans Thursday for a vast battery gigafactory in northeastern England, where it will manufacture a new electric vehicle as companies and governments accelerate away from fossil-fuel cars.

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UK Auto Sector Embraces Electric Car 'Gigafactories'

Britain's automotive sector must build huge electric car battery "gigafactories" to secure both its future and the transition to greener energy, industry body SMMT declared Tuesday.

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Google Gives Workers Tool for Remote Work Planning

Google on Tuesday unveiled a platform that lets its workers calculate pay and benefits for remote work, and how this would change if they move to a cheaper - or more expensive - city.

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U.S. Seizes Iranian State News Websites

U.S. law enforcement seized control of the websites of two Iranian state-controlled news groups, Press TV and Al-Alam, and of the Al-Masirah TV channel of Yemen's Huthis, statements posted on the websites showed Tuesday.

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Apple Warns EU Law 'Risks Destroying iPhone Security'

The EU's proposed new rules to rein in tech giants risk undermining the security of the iPhone, Apple chief Tim Cook warned Wednesday.

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Twitter Allows Arabic Users to be Addressed in the Feminine

Twitter on Wednesday unveiled a new version that allows Arabic language users to be addressed as female rather than male, in efforts to use "inclusive language" on the platform, popular in the Arab world.

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Socially Distanced Robots Serve Mecca Holy Water ahead of Hajj

Robots began handing out bottles of sacred water in Mecca this week in preparation for a socially distanced Hajj pilgrimage in Islam's holiest city, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Italy Targets Booking.com over Alleged Tax Evasion

The online reservation platform Booking.com is suspected of having avoided 150 million euros ($182 million) in value-added tax in Italy, financial police in Genoa said Thursday.

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Swaths of Internet Down, Outage at Cloud Company Fastly

Numerous websites went offline Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at the cloud service company Fastly.

Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch, Reddit, and the U.K. government's home page, could not be reached.

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