Dec 13, 2021

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Posted Dec 13, 2021 12:15 PM

Power companies discover 21st century 
More than 50 power companies have announced the National Electric Highway Coalition, with a plan to all contribute to a national coast-to-coast electric charging network. 
 
The meeting (and your job) was ended by the host 
The CEO of mortgage company better.com has apologized after firing 900 employees over Zoom
 
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Data on the most-used emoji of the year? That would be here

But you promised... 
More than 90,000 Russian troops are believed to be massed near Ukraine's border. Some fear a potential invasion, despite a two-hour video call between Biden and Putin in which Putin promised otherwise. 
 
Partly cloudy day for Amazon 
Amazon's cloud computing unit Amazon Web Services was hit with an outage on Tuesday, which caused disruption to services like Netflix, Slack, Disney, Ticketmaster and Amazon itself.