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Distracted driving is a factor in 6 out of 10 teen crashes. Holding a phone while driving has been shown to increase the risk of a crash or near crash by up to four times

Gallium, once an industrial-waste product, is transforming our increasingly electrified world.

Accessibility advocates said that before the change, voice tweets had excluded deaf people.

The electric-truck startup confirmed the Justice Department is probing its business, investigating matters related to its reverse merger deal last year and preorders for its forthcoming pickup truck, the Endurance.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is moving quickly to expand its chip-making capabilities, investing billions of dollars in plants and weighing a deal to buy GlobalFoundries that would value the company at about $30 billion.

Lei Jun, chairman of smartphone maker Xiaomi, has given company shares worth more than $2 billion to charity.

The 3-D printing company is combining with the SPAC Altimar Acquisition Corp. II.

The fintech giant One97 Communications is backed by Jack Ma’s Ant and boasts more than 330 million customers.

As electric cars’ share of the Chinese auto market cross the 10% threshold, foreign makers not called Tesla have failed to convince Chinese consumers that their EVs match the local competition.

China sent regulators including state security and police officials to the ride-hailing business as part of a cybersecurity investigation, the latest development in a regulatory saga that has gripped China’s tech industry.