Tech Added to an Epidemic of Myopia. Can It Help Fix It Too?
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The business environment for foreign companies in China can be summed up in one word, |
| 0:06.2 | challenging. |
| 0:07.7 | Here the full Wall Street Journal series, the state of Xi's Chinese Dream, all in one |
| 0:13.1 | place, and WSJ Special Access, only for subscribers and only on Spotify. |
| 0:21.7 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing, it's Thursday, August 31st. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:32.1 | Near-sightedness is on the rise. |
| 0:34.8 | Half the global population is expected to have trouble seeing things far away by 2050, |
| 0:40.5 | according to the World Health Organization. |
| 0:42.9 | But there are ways to help some people, particularly children, preserve their vision, and they include |
| 0:49.7 | tech solutions. |
| 0:51.3 | Our family and tech columnist Julie Jargon is going to join us to explain tech's role |
| 0:55.7 | in causing the problem, and some tech assistance that's on the way. |
| 1:02.7 | First, though, we've got some exclusive WSJ reporting. |
| 1:09.1 | People familiar with the matter say federal prosecutors are investigating Tesla's use |
| 1:13.5 | of company funds on a secret project. |
| 1:16.8 | It's been described internally as a glass house in Texas for CEO Elon Musk. |
| 1:23.0 | The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has sought information |
| 1:27.1 | about personal benefits paid to Musk, how much Tesla spent on the project, and what it |
| 1:32.3 | was for. |
| 1:33.7 | In July, we were the first to report that Tesla board members had investigated whether |
| 1:38.3 | company resources were misused on the secret effort, which was internally known as Project |
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