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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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0:00.0 | Americans love using their credit cards, the most secure and hassle-free way to pay. |
0:04.0 | But DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill. |
0:08.0 | This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed, |
0:13.0 | allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards. |
0:18.0 | Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price. |
0:22.1 | Tell Congress to guard your card because Americans lose when politicians choose. Learn more at |
0:28.1 | guard your card.com. Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, May 20th. I'm Victoria Craig for |
0:35.7 | the Wall Street Journal. Elon Musk made huge donations to boost |
0:39.6 | President Trump in the 2024 election. Now, he says he's done enough and is cutting back on |
0:45.5 | political spending. At the Qatar Economic Forum today, the billionaire said he plans to do, quote, |
0:50.6 | a lot less in the future. He also answered yes to a question about whether he'd still be |
0:55.9 | Tesla's CEO in five years, but added the caveat that he, quote, might die. |
1:00.6 | Musk's chief finance officer at Tesla, meanwhile, is the highest paid CFO since modern reporting |
1:06.0 | began about two decades ago. That's according to data compiled by Equilar, which shows that Tesla's |
1:11.7 | CFO received a $139 million pay package last year far eclipsing what hydrogen truckmaker |
1:18.8 | Nikola gave its then-CFO in 2020. That company filed for bankruptcy this year. Elsewhere, |
1:25.2 | Honda says it plans to cut back its investment in electric vehicles |
1:29.0 | by more than $20 billion as growth for EV demand slows. The Japanese automaker said today that |
1:35.3 | despite that drawdown, it still believes EVs are the best way for passenger cars to achieve carbon |
1:40.8 | neutrality in the long run. But it said hybrids will play a key role during that |
1:45.6 | transition, and it plans to improve its own hybrid lineup. And finally, if you've ever been |
1:51.1 | overwhelmed by the number of sponsored results or shopping links when you do a Google search, |
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