Global News
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Disinformation for hire, a shadow industry, is quietly booming
The result is an accelerating rise in polarising conspiracies, phoney citizen groups and fabricated public sentiment, deteriorating our shared reality beyond even the depths of recent years
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Toyota led on clean cars. Now critics say it works to delay them
Toyota currently does not sell any electric vehicles in major markets outside China, but it said in April that it plans to sell 15 battery-electric models globally by 2025, part of a wider lineup of 70 battery-electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to offer "diverse choices" to buyers
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Tesla's factory in Berlin runs into activists, red tape and lizards
Tesla's first major assembly plant in Europe has strong support from regional political leaders, but it has been held up by legal challenges from environmental groups, delays in the approval process by regional and national agencies, and the carmaker's own revisions to the plan
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The 1964 games proclaimed a new Japan. There's less to cheer this time
For both Japan and the Olympic movement, the delayed 2020 Games may represent less a moment of hope for the future than the distinct possibility of decline
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When gender equality at the Olympics is not so equal
Of the nearly 11,000 athletes arriving in Tokyo, almost 49% will be women, according to the International Olympic Committee, up from 45.6% at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and 44.2% at the 2012 London Olympics
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For airlines, it's looking more like 2019 again
A full recovery rests on the return of two pillars of the business, corporate and international travel, but executives said they expected both to improve meaningfully over the coming months
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The battles to come over the benefits of working from home
Many economists believe that increased work from home will last because it can raise the productivity of employees, thanks in part to fewer pointless meetings, less distraction and, most of all, a lack of commuting
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The Amazonification of space begins in earnest
What was once largely the domain of big government is now increasingly the realm of Big Tech, and the people who sold you the internet will now sell you the moon and the stars
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The invisible hand behind the Tokyo Olympics
The force behind the Olympic curtain is Dentsu, an advertising goliath with near mythical levels of power and influence in Japan
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Jeff Bezos launches to space, aiming to reignite his rocket company's ambitions
While Bezos was beaten to space last week by Richard Branson, who flew in a rocket plane from his company Virgin Galactic, some analysts consider Blue Origin, founded by Bezos more than 20 years ago, to be a more significant contender in the future space economy
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How China transformed into a prime cyber threat to the US
Hacks that were conducted via sloppily worded spearphishing emails by units of the People's Liberation Army are now carried out by an elite satellite network of contractors at front companies and universities