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TOKYO — Subaru, already smarting from a vehicle inspection scandal at home, said it was now investigating whether mileage readings may have also been falsified during final checks, driving its shares down as much as 8 percent. Mileage readings, an indicator of fuel efficiency, do not fall under safety requirements. However, any proof of what […]
Opinion: An FCC commissioner argues that the agency shouldn’t vote to dismantle the open internet until it probes how bots hacked the comment process. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a2b32c6a850e23a4736f3ca/master/pass/FCC-FINAL.jpg Feed: All Latest
Internet giants may be trying to make nice with publishers, but that’s not completely reassuring to Australian regulators. The country’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating Facebook, Google and other “digital platform providers” to see if their search engines and social sites are harming competition in the news space. It wants to know if […]
GETTY Many devices are made for new parents to be alerted when their baby is crying Recently I spent a week in Majorca with friends who own a rather tasty villa there and during our break their daughter and four grandchildren, aged three, twins of 15 months and a three-month-old baby – plus nanny – […]
Automotive News is tackling something that should’ve been addressed decades ago: rampant sexism in the automotive industry. You don’t even need to be part of that industry to know it’s a problem — everybody has probably heard a story of a female car shopper being ignored, belittled or generally poorly treated at a car dealership. […]
The Ontario coroner’s office is investigating after a Hamilton senior died alone on her apartment floor while waiting nearly half an hour for paramedics. CBC | Health News
Health Canada says it’s looking into some private clinics offering direct-to-consumer stem cell therapies. A controversial op-ed is retracted after ties to the pharmaceutical industry are exposed. And predatory publishers catch even senior scientists. CBC | Health News
Richard Bartle became famous in game circles in the 1990s when he identified the four basic players in online games: killers, socializers, achievers, and explorers. Those categories held up extraordinarily well, and it helped game developers design their games with those four audiences in mind. Now he’s thinking about why players drop out of games, […]
Back pain affects most Canadians. Investigative journalist and back pain sufferer Cathryn Jakobson Ramin says it’s time to rethink treatment. CBC | Health News
Pakistani authorities are on a mission to squash all anti-military sentiments online. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan directed the country’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to investigate 200 social media accounts with posts that criticize the country’s powerful Armed Forces. FIA told Reuters that it has already identified the owners behind 18 of the accounts, […]
