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Biden Administration Initiates Inquiry Targeting “Connected Vehicles,” with Chinese Electric Vehicles and Supply Chain As Clear Target For Regulation
The Biden Administration announced on February 29, 2024, that it is commencing an inquiry into whether the involvement of “foreign adversaries” in the information and communications technology and services (“ICTS”) supply chain for “connected vehicles” (“CVs”) poses a national security risk to the United States. Chinese vehicles – particularly electric vehicles (“EVs”) – are the…
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SEC Targets Crypto and DeFi Platforms with New Rules and an Enforcement Action
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently published an enforcement action against the crypto platform ShapeShift AG and found that ShapeShift acted as an unregistered securities “dealer.” The action coincides with the SEC’s recent adoption of new rules for “dealer” registration….By: Mintz
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What to Do If You’ve Been Affected by the Exactech Recall
If you have had problems with an Exactech ankle, knee, hip or shoulder implant, you are not alone. At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Exactech has recalled hundreds of thousands of defective ankle, knee, hip and shoulder implant devices over the past few years……By: Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley
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Middle East Crisis: U.S. to Build Pier to Allow Aid Into Gaza by Sea
Officials said President Biden was expected to announce in his State of the Union on Thursday that the U.S. military would construct a floating pier off the Gaza Strip to let ships deliver tons of food and other aid.
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Ukrainians Scale Up Crowdfunding to Help the War Effort
Fund-raisers are borrowing heavily from business techniques to keep donations flowing to the military. The latest trend? Broad approaches that rely on networks of friends and acquaintances.
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Damsel
“There are many stories of chivalry where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress. This is not one of them.” That is how Millie Bobby Brown’s sumptuous new fantasy film begins, so we know from the start that there will be a damsel, she will be in distress, and she will have to get…
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She Knew: The Women of Science Fiction Who Predicted the Future
Among my communities, women can predict the future. Aunties know when someone is pregnant. Cousins can tell which path to take at a crossroads. Mums dream of what is yet to come, and grandmas hold memories of pasts they never witnessed. This belief in the unseen, this potential to glimpse and reshape the future must…
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Brit Marling on A Murder at the End of the World and Finding Her Rhythm as a Writer
For multi-hyphenate storyteller Brit Marling, writing is like harnessing a beating heart. Marling, who only days earlier had been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for “A Murder at the End of the World,” describes to RogerEbert.com a writing process that seems almost visceral. The eventual words on a page, Marling explains, come from…
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Rage and Feminism in Poor Things and Lisa Frankenstein
Ever since Elsa Lanchester lifted her salt-and-pepper head in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” filmmakers have been trying to figure out how to nail the feminist take on the classic horror story. The brutish strength and massive size of Boris Karloff’s original cinematic incarnation of the Monster isn’t exactly an obvious choice as the centerpiece of…
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You’re Naked Without Us: A Report from the Costume Designers Guild
If you thought that the Hollywood union talks were over with the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike ending last year, Women’s History Month marks the beginning of another fair contract negotiation with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, this time with the predominantly female Costume Designers Guild. Their campaign mottoes say it all: “pay equity…
