General Motors, Ford and other U.S. companies have started restricting employee travel to Wuhan, China, as an outbreak of a flu-like coronavirus that has killed at least 17 people spreads throughout Asia. Ford Motor “has suspended all business travel to Wuhan, specifically, and is monitoring the situation very closely,” a company spokesman said, adding that the Detroit automaker hasn’t suspended travel to other parts of China. Fiat Chrysler hasn’t imposed any travel restrictions “at this time,”

Boeing’s new CEO, Dave Calhoun, said Wednesday that he wants the company to resume production of the 737 Max months before regulators sign off on the planes and airlines prepare to return them to service. Boeing suspended production of the planes this month because a worldwide grounding of the jetliners after two fatal crashes lasted months longer than expected. The 737 Max production shutdown has already cost thousands of jobs and raised concerns about the crisis’ impact on the broader economy.

Aly Song | ReutersThe very short sellers that Elon Musk skewers frequently for betting against Tesla could ironically help the eccentric chief executive score a big payday. Nearly a fifth of Tesla shares available for trading are sold short, according to S3 Partners. Two years ago Tesla’s board agreed to a compensation plan for Musk based on Tesla stock milestones. If a stock price instead trends higher, short sellers are forced to buy back the equity at a higher price in order to cut their moun

The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Wednesday to address the mysterious coronavirus that has killed at least 17 people and sickened hundreds of others in China. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is expected to confirm whether the virus constitutes a global health emergency and to make recommendations on how to contain the outbreak. The briefing follows an emergency meeting of international health experts in Geneva to discuss the virus earlier Wednesday. WHO doesn’t

Mark Cuban, who made billions of dollars during the dot-com boom, said Wednesday that the stock market is not reminiscent of 1999. “Interest rates were a lot different back then,” Cuban said on CNBC’s “Fast Money Halftime Report.” The levels of day trading have receded and given way to the rise of index funds, creating a fundamentally different landscape, Cuban said. “There’s so much money chasing index funds, so as long as those funds keep on growing the market is going to go up,” said Cuban, w

Niantic is sticking with that strategy in 2020, and has revealed the game’s live events schedule for the first half of the year. Pokémon Go’s first on-location event in 2020 will take place in Taichung, Taiwan, to coincide with the local Lantern Festival. Next is a Safari Zone in St. Louis, from March 27-29. Tickets for this Safari Zone will go on sale starting on Jan. 24 at 8 a.m. CT. Following that is another Safari Zone, this time in Liverpool on April 17-19.

Day one was plagued with issues for Temtem. The developer, Crema, has been hard at work trying to resolve all the issues players are facing, with multiple builds going live since launch. Sometimes, these communications read comically, as fixes to the fixes are set live, rolled back, and then smoothed over anew. — Temtem (@PlayTemtem) January 21, 2020We wanted burritos but the place was closed 🙁 — Temtem (@PlayTemtem) January 21, 2020Okay, we should go to sleep now. — Temtem (@PlayTemtem) Januar

MLB The Show 20’s release is less than two months away, and we finally have a look at the game in action. The first gameplay trailer for this year’s installment in the franchise shows off expected updates like roster moves and new animations, as well as some elements that appear to be entirely new for 2020. And at the 0:55 mark, we get a look at Sony San Diego’s revised button accuracy fielding method, with an indication from a visual overlay that “fielder skill matters,” as the livestream sched

Chinese megacorporation Tencent has formally offered to acquire Norwegian game developer Funcom. According to a press release, Funcom’s management supports the proposal. In addition to its back catalog, Funcom is also working on a new survival multiplayer game based on Frank Herbert’s Dune. In 2018 it launched Conan Exiles, an open-world survival game in the vein of Ark: Survival Evolved. “We are impressed by Funcom’s strengths as a developer of open-world multiplayer, action and survival games,

Presenting Deeeer Simulator: Your Average Everyday Deer Game, a game that uses Goat Simulator-style hijinks as a building block for even more ridiculous shenanigans. There is some physics-based silliness here, but what sets the game apart is that it gives you more tools and animals to unleash your chaos. But to really get a sense of what’s possible here, we should take a look at the main trailer for the game. The deer can somehow ride all the animals, which range from a raccoon to a huge, fire-b

Now Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions is bringing video games into the mix as well and its first trailer is exactly as ridiculous and amazing as you would hope. Captain Tsubasa is a long-running Japanese manga series following Tsubasa, a kid who was born only to play soccer. Since it was created by Yōichi Takahashi in the early-80s, Captain Tsubasa has had several manga runs, a few different anime adaptations, and well over a dozen video games. Rise of the New Champions is the first Captain

A tabletop role-playing game based on Arkane Studios and Bethesda Softworks’ Dishonored franchise is on its way. It’s being developed by London-based Modiphius, which has also created tabletop games based on The Elder Scrolls, Star Trek, and Conan. The Dishonored roleplaying game is a 300-page hardback book that comes with custom 20-sided dice. He said that the game has been designed for both tabletop RPG aficionados and for newcomers who love the original video games. The Dishonored roleplaying

Developer Ninja Theory is set to release its next project, competitive multiplayer game Bleeding Edge, and just announced a sequel to Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice for Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox. But the studio has at least one other project in the works, an “experimental” horror game called Project: Mara. “Project: Mara will be a real-world and grounded representation of true mental terror,” said Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Ninja Theory, in a video announcing the project. A brief teaser for

Whatever time or money you put into the open beta will transfer to the finished product later this year. The ranked seasonWith open beta, Riot adds Legends of Runterra’s first ranked season. With the open beta, Riot brings a new, region-inspired board for each of Legends of Runeterra’s six regions. There will be no further account resets —anything you earn once the open beta starts is yours to keep! Beta Season (LoR’s first ranked season) begins with the open beta.

From August 1, 2019, Polish citizens under the age of 26 who earn less than 85,528 zloty ($22,207) a year will no longer have to pay income tax. Poland continues to have a strained relationship with Brussels after several years of legal disputes over changes to the country’s judiciary, and fears over increasing authoritarianism in the Eastern European nation. Brussels objected to the fact that judges in Poland could be subjected to investigations and sanctions based on their rulings and that the

The coronavirus spreading in China appears to be contained for the time being, according to the CEO of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. “It really looks like at this point it’s very contained,” Soriot told CNBC. “We have a very large presence in China — we’re the number one pharmaceutical company there, we employ 16,000 people — so as you would imagine it matters to us, we really care a lot and we’ll monitor this, but it really looks like it’s contained for the time being.” A new strain of coro

The global economy is seeing a “growth rotation” away from the U.S. and toward Europe and the rest of the world, according to Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters. The euro zone economy stuttered in 2019, forcing the European Central Bank (ECB) to cut interest rates to an all-time low of -0.5% and launch a massive new bond-buying program. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week revised down its euro area growth projections from 1.4% to 1.3% in 2020, but this still represents an improvemen

DAVOS, Switzerland — U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has questioned whether a lack of agreed international rules concerning space exploration could inadvertently trigger a lawless “Wild West situation.” His comments come as a new era of space discovery gathers pace, with an ever-growing list of space agencies forming around the world. “Who owns space? Are we getting into kind of a Wild West situation of claim jumpers or will there be some methodology?” “Space is not a vacuum really, it is ac

The current most senior executive at French carmaker Renault has played down suggestions that an almost two-decade partnership with Japan’s Nissan is set to end. Ties between the two firms have been strained since Japanese authorities arrested former Nissan chair Carlos Ghosn in 2018 on charges related to misuse of company funds and underreporting of his personal salary. Bullishly describing the relationship as “extraordinarily positive,” Senard added that the two management teams were talking e

Former US Vice-President Al Gore, speaks at the Securing a Sustainable Future for the Amazon, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore believes the climate crisis is getting worse “way faster” than most people realize, describing it as a “challenge to our moral imagination.” Delivering closing remarks at a World Economic Forum panel session on Wednesday, Gore spoke passionately about the climate emergency. At one stage, the co