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The United States will not share intelligence with countries that use hardware made by Huawei in their core communications systems (The Register). US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox Business: "If a country adopts this and puts it in some of their critical information systems, we won’t be able to share information with them." Huawei has been a prime target in the US's trade war with China, although European governments including Germany have carried out extensive research showing that the Chinese telecoms hardware firm does not present an undue security risk


Following months of mass walkouts and online protests, Google has agreed to end forced arbitration for all employee disputes, which means that Google staff will no longer have to waive their right to take cases to court (The Verge). The new policy goes into effect on March 21 for Google employees worldwide. The company had already ended forced arbitration for sexual assault and misconduct.

JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully completed the first of three sample collection missions to gather material from the surface of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu (Space.com). To collect samples, Hayabusa2 approached the surface fired as tantalum "bullet" at the asteroid and used its "sampling horn" to gather material ejected by the bullet's impact.

Even your own house isn’t immune from air pollution (WIRED). A group of researchers in Colorado has carried out one of the world's first large-scale research studies into the chemistry of indoor environments and found that even the most basic household tasks can increase levels of pollution far more than previously thought.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has announced that he'll retire in April, following a career that spanned from the US launch of the cult GameCube to the wildly successful Switch (TechCrunch). In an outstanding example of nominative determinism, Fils-Aime has announced that his successor will be Doug Bowser, who led US sales and marketing for the Switch.

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