U.S. trade panel votes to proceed with solar panel tariff probe

(Reuters) – The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) voted on Friday to proceed with an investigation into whether solar panels from Southeast Asia are stifling domestic manufacturing, a step that could result in tariffs on the majority of panel imports. The four-member panel voted unanimously to pursue the probe into imports from Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia…

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NBA nears rights deal worth $76 billion with NBC, ESPN and Amazon, WSJ reports

(Reuters) -The National Basketball Association is closing in on media rights deals with Comcast-owned NBC, Disney’s ESPN, and Amazon.com that would generate about $76 billion in media revenue over 11 years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Rights to the widely watched professional basketball league are a prized possession for media companies. Sports content…

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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft sends first astronaut crew to orbit

By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -Boeing’s new Starliner capsule flew its first crew of astronauts to space on Wednesday from Florida in a much-delayed test mission to the International Space Station, a milestone in the aerospace giant’s ambitions to step up its competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The CST-100 Starliner, with astronauts Barry…

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Nvidia set to overtake Apple as world’s second-most valuable company

By Medha Singh (Reuters) – Nvidia could soon surpass Apple to become the world’s second-most valuable company, as the kingmaker behind the AI revolution takes on the iPhone maker that has ruled Wall Street for decades. The reliance of virtually all artificial intelligence applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT on Nvidia’s high-end chips has helped the…

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