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Tesla recalls nearly 363,000 cars with 'Full Self-Driving' to fix flaws in behavior

Tesla is recalling the vehicles to fix problems with the way the "Full Self-Driving" system behaves around intersections and following posted speed limits. The fix will come in a software update.
- The Associated Press
'New York Times' contributors slam paper's coverage of transgender people

Prominent journalists and writers, including some well-known Times staffers, have signed a letter accusing the paper of biased coverage.
- Mary Yang
Shopify deleted 322,000 hours of meetings. Should the rest of us be jealous?

The pandemic had an unexpected side effect: peak meeting misery. With Shopify's radical announcement last month, the working world wants to know if a future without meetings is even possible.
- Andrea Hsu
Proposed WA bill would raise threshold for farmworker overtime

This is the second year that farmworkers will be eligible for overtime. Right now, if they work past 48 hours they’ll get paid time and half. Next year they’ll be the same as everyone else - anything past 40 hours would count as overtime. But there’s new proposed legislation in Olympia that is trying to re-negotiate that.
- Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
After a profitable year, some oil companies are slowing their pivot to renewables

Oil executives have mostly stopped denying climate change, but now argue that the world should not act quickly to cut fossil fuel use. In fact, last year, industry leaders slowed down climate plans.
- Camila Domonoske
Book sales are declining, but not in the romance genre

Romance books are on the rise, even as overall book sales are declining. NPR's Juana Summers visited a romance book club at Baltimore's Charm City Books to see what brings readers to the genre.
- Juana Summers
What's behind skyrocketing rents in Eastern Washington?

To find the fastest rent increases in Washington, you have to look outside of the major metro areas. Traditionally affordable places across the state are quickly pricing out minimum wage workers and retirees.
- Jason Burrows
Can Seattle turn underused office towers into apartment buildings?

They’re already doing it in Tacoma. We explore that idea, along with other strategies to get people to move downtown so they can help revive it.
- Sarah Leibovitz
As its ambitions soar, Air India orders 470 Boeing and Airbus aircraft

India's second-largest domestic carrier placed orders for 220 Boeing aircraft valued at $34 billion and 250 Airbus planes in a separate deal that could be worth tens of billions of dollars.
- The Associated Press
20,000 roses, inflation and night terrors: the life of a florist on Valentine's Day

It's the biggest day of the year for the $8 billion global flower industry, but it's not all that profitable. Why? Blame the roses.
- Stacey Vanek Smith

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