Daily News Roundup
Tech + Social M
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
The two newest Fire Sticks block apps from outside of Amazon’s store. The writing was on the wall, and now it’s on Amazon’s website.
Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA’s tentative step toward crew launch
Blue Origin will soon launch the third flight of its New Glenn rocket, this time with a reused booster. Welcome to Edition 8.37 of the Rocket Report! NASA is still climbing down from the high of the Artemis II mission, the first flight by humans to the Moon since 1972.
US jobs too important to risk Chinese car imports, says Ford CEO
China has enough spare capacity to swallow the entire US car market, says Ford’s Jim Farley. The risk to almost a million US jobs is too great to allow imports of Chinese vehicles, according to Ford CEO Jim Farley.
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