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Enlarge / Airbus 320 cockpit.Getty Images | Skyhobo The Federal Aviation Administration's fight against AT&T's and Verizon's new 5G deployment appears to be coming to a temporary close, with the FAA having cleared about 78 percent of US planes for landing in low-visibility conditions. Airline CEOs are striking an upbeat tone, with one saying the…

TOPLINE The stock market moved lower on Friday after President Trump threatened new tariffs on China over the coronavirus outbreak—claiming that it was created in a Wuhan lab. The market is down over 2% after wrapping up its best month in decades. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images KEY FACTS The Dow Jones industrial average was…

Supreme Court justices must first determine whether the cases blocking Biden's student-debt relief have standing. If they find there isn't standing, they aren't able to rule on whether the relief was an overreach of authority. The justices were skeptical of whether GOP-led states had standing to bring student-loan company MOHELA into their case. Loading Something…

Getty Images | NurPhoto X, the social network that most people still call Twitter, says it is adding staff to its safety and elections teams as it starts allowing more political advertising. "We're currently expanding our safety and elections teams to focus on combating manipulation, surfacing inauthentic accounts and closely monitoring the platform for emerging…

Enlarge / Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk presents a vaccine production device during a meeting September 2, 2020, in Berlin, Germany. Musk met with vaccine-maker CureVac, with which Tesla has a cooperation to build devices for producing RNA vaccines. Under the leadership of billionaire Elon Musk, social media platform Twitter has abandoned its efforts…

Student-loan borrowers, check your emails — you might find a message from President Joe Biden in your inbox telling you that your debt is canceled.On Wednesday morning, the White House and Education Department announced it would be canceling $1.2 billion in student debt for 153,000 borrowers — the result of early implementation of a provision…

Researchers have found more malicious Google Play apps, one of which exploits a serious Android rooting vulnerability so the app can take screenshots and collect other types of sensitive user information. Camero exploits CVE-2019-2215, a potent vulnerability discovered in October by Google’s Project Zero vulnerability research group, researchers from Trend Micro reported on Monday. The…

Getty Images | Christopher Furlong Twitter's US advertising revenue plunged 59 percent year over year during a recent five-week period, The New York Times reported today. The firm's US ad "revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according…

Kevin Alfaro / Aurich Lawson / Getty Images A New Jersey man is facing felony charges for a tweet seeking to identify a police officer. Four others are facing felony charges for retweeting the tweet, the Washington Post reports. Kevin Alfaro was attending a Black Lives Matter protest in the New York suburb of Nutley,…

Enlarge / State Capitol building in Olympia, Washington. The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband, and the bill lifting those restrictions now awaits the signature of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee. The state Senate passed the bill Sunday in a 27-22 vote, and the state House passed it on February 23 by…