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China’s Tencent downplays Trump’s WeChat app ban
Image copyright Getty Images Tencent has played down Donald Trump’s ban on its WeChat app, believing it will only affect its US operations. The tech giant runs an equivalent messaging platform in China called Weixin which it hopes will be unaffected. The bigger fallout may be Apple’s sales in China if its iPhones aren’t allowed …
Elon Musk downplays coronavirus as Tesla factory stays open amid crisis | Technology
Elon Musk has downplayed the severity of the coronavirus epidemic, tweeted false information about the disease’s effect on children, and kept his northern California factory open despite a local “shelter-in-place” order, but the billionaire entrepreneur also says he’s willing to help. On Thursday, the Tesla chief executive inserted himself into the global conversation on the …
