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WSJ Tech News Briefing

Tech Minute: FDA Quietly Removes Webpages Saying Cellphones Aren’t Dangerous

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: The Trump administration plans an emergency auction for tech companies to fund new power plants. And Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard is probed by Italy’s competition regulator for potentially misleading consumers. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

As companies seek to close growing gaps in skills and talent,

0:04.0

Deloitte US CEO Jason Garzatus believes it's important for organizations to understand their baseline of skills.

0:10.0

There's so many organizations that can't ask and answer the fundamental questions about how much computer science or data management skills do I have or AI development skills in a given domain? By performing a skills

0:21.9

inventory, leaders can truly understand where their efforts should be focused. Being blind to

0:26.6

those gaps is the real miss. Visit Deloitte.com to learn how your enterprise can help successfully

0:31.8

cultivate talent. Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, January 16th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:41.1

We're exclusively reporting that the Food and Drug Administration quietly removed webpages saying cell phones aren't dangerous.

0:49.1

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services says they've launched a study on cell phone radiation

0:54.5

to identify gaps and knowledge. The department is run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy and some of

1:01.0

his allies have long pointed to cell phones as a potential source of illnesses, including cancer.

1:06.4

Many mainstream scientific institutions, including the FDA, previously concluded that there isn't

1:11.7

adequate proof to link health problems to cell phones or other wireless devices. But a vocal

1:16.5

group of scientists have said there is reason to worry and to take more precautions.

1:22.0

The Trump administration is planning to propose that the nation's largest power grid operator

1:26.7

hold an emergency auction

1:28.1

for tech companies to bid on funding new power plants. That's according to people familiar

1:32.7

with the matter. The directive expected today is an attempt by the federal government to

1:37.7

check rising electricity prices within PJM interconnection, a 13 state power market spanning

1:43.8

from New Jersey to Kentucky. The buildout of

1:46.6

AI data centers there is straining the grid's capacity and has resulted in substantially

1:50.9

higher electricity costs. And Italy's competition regulator is investigating Microsoft's

1:57.7

Activision Blizzard, saying the U.S. gaming publisher might be misleading consumers

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