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Scientists tasked with reviewing government plans to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. said in a report released Friday that the proposal has numerous factual errors and other problems. The five-member scientific panel’s conclusions were detailed in a 245-page report delivered to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. One reviewer said […]

Apple’s exposure to China is broad. The company assembles most of its products there, and the region is its No. 3 market, after the United States and Europe. In its latest quarter, Apple earned $10.2 billion in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, or about 18 percent of its total revenue. Apple did not respond to

In an ominous but vague warning, China said Friday that it was drawing up a list of “unreliable” foreign companies, organizations and individuals for targeting in what could signal retaliation for U.S. sanctions on the Chinese tech powerhouse Huawei. “We think it may be the beginning of Beijing’s attempt to roll out a retaliatory framework,”

You grew up in Berkeley, Calif. Did any of the counterculture influence you? I was running from tear gas even before I could walk, because I was on my dad’s shoulders as he was running from tear gas at a protest against the Vietnam War. A willingness to think for yourself was probably one of

U.S. scientists will investigate why an unusual number of gray whales are washing up dead on West Coast beaches. About 70 whales have been stranded so far this year on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, the most since 2000. About five more have been found on British Columbia beaches. NOAA Fisheries on

NASA is going to land on the moon again, maybe as soon as next year. The agency won’t be sending people, though. It’ll be at least five more years before astronauts walk on the moon again. But on Friday, NASA is to announce the first contracts to send small experiments and technology packages there aboard

In Ireland, where most of the major tech companies have European head offices for tax reasons, 19 statutory investigations have been started — 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. The regulation has been cited as inspiration for other data rules globally, including in Japan, Brazil, India and China. And many American lawmakers

Kitty Knowles looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says he would be “the first to protest” if there were retaliatory Chinese sanctions against Apple Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic of Ireland

BEIJING — The Chinese government said on Friday that it was putting together an “unreliable entities list” of foreign companies and people, an apparent first step toward retaliating against the United States for denying vital American technology to Chinese companies. China’s Ministry of Commerce said the list would contain foreign companies, individuals and organizations that

Networks Minus Numbers What would a metric-free, or metric-light, social media actually feel like? It’s not so easy to imagine revisionist platform histories, given how integral metrics have been to the stories of their rapid rise and dominance. These omnipresent numbers have also served as imperfect but widely used ways quantify revolutions, jokes, screw-ups and