FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on Jan 20

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will step down from his post on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated, he announced Monday. The announcement means that the FCC could reach a Democratic majority sooner than it would otherwise be able to. Pai's term was slated to expire in June 2021, though Biden will be able to choose a Democrat to chair the commission once in office. Commissioners must be confirmed by the Senate.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/11/30/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-will-step-down-on-january-20.html?source=Snapzu

GM pulls planned backing from electric vehicle company

General Motors (GM) announced on Monday that it would not be buying into the electric vehicle company Nikola and it would be ending development of an electric and hydrogen powered vehicle. The two companies in September signed an agreement that would allow Nikola to use GM’s new electric truck underpinnings for its electric and hydrogen-powered pickup called the Badger in exchange for giving GM an 11 percent stake in the company.
Read more: https://thehill.com/news-by-subject/energy-environment/527980-gm-pulls-planned-backing-from-electric-vehicle-company?source=Snapzu

Apple One Marked as Expired for Some Customers and Other Billing Issues Emerge as 30-Day Trial Ends

Today marks one month since the launch of Apple One, which allows customers to subscribe to multiple Apple services in a single bundle, and it appears there are some billing-related issues as the free trial period begins to elapse.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/30/apple-one-trial-billing-issues/?source=Snapzu

Trump said the stock market would crash if Biden won. The Dow is having its best month since 1987.

President Donald Trump repeatedly warned Americans that if they failed to reelect him, the stock market would implode. In reality, the opposite happened. Between August and October alone, Trump sent six tweets saying markets would "crash" if Joe Biden were elected, using a word presidents typically avoid.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/business/stock-market-dow-jones-trump-biden/index.html?source=Snapzu

U.S. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez raises $200K after battling Jagmeet Singh in hit video game Among Us

A video game livestream session between federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and a U.S. lawmaker has raised more than $200,000 US in donations.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/among-us-singh-ocasio-cortez-200k-donations-1.5820831?source=Snapzu

DeepMind's A.I. can now predict protein structures to within an atom's width of accuracy. Here's why that's a very big deal.

Researchers have made a major breakthrough using artificial intelligence that could revolutionize the hunt for new medicines. The scientists have created A.I. software that uses a protein’s DNA sequence to predict its three-dimensional structure to within an atom’s width of accuracy.
Read more: https://fortune.com/2020/11/30/deepmind-protein-folding-breakthrough/?source=Snapzu

DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding

Having risen to fame on its superhuman performance at playing games, the artificial intelligence group DeepMind has cracked a serious scientific problem that has stumped researchers for half a century. With its latest AI program, AlphaFold, the company and research laboratory showed it can predict how proteins fold into 3D shapes, a fiendishly complex process that is fundamental to understanding the biological machinery of life.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/30/deepmind-ai-cracks-50-year-old-problem-of-biology-research?source=Snapzu