![Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co and Dahua Technology Co, whose cameras can be found in United States schools and local government facilities, are targeted in a proposed order the US Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on Thursday [File: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/surve.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The FCC order would forbid US sales of specified telecommunications and surveillance equipment from some Chinese firms.
Science and Technology
![Apple CEO Tim Cook, in his first public comments about the Digital Markets Act (DMA) proposed by European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, said he feared the draft rules 'would destroy the security of the iPhone' and a lot of the privacy initiatives built into the App Store [File: Stephen Lam/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/timcook.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Tim Cook criticised the proposed Digital Markets Act, saying it threatens the security and privacy of iPhones.
![After Bill Gates announced that he and his wife, Melinda French Gates, are divorcing, reports surfaced about potentially inappropriate conduct by the former executive towards Microsoft employees [File: Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bill.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Arjuna Capital has requested a report on the ‘effectiveness of the company’s workplace sexual harassment policies’.
![ITT Technical Institute is a chain of colleges that closed in 2016 after being dealt a series of sanctions by the Obama administration [File: Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/ITT.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
The Education Department is erasing 18,000 loans for those who attended a for-profit college that lied to them.
![Hyundai has suspended production at its South Korean and US factories because of a chip shortage [Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-04-19T000000Z_945849145_RC2OYM9DZN75_RTRMADP_3_HYUNDAI-MOTOR-RESULTS.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
It wants to shift some auto chip orders to domestic firms after facing a shortage as most of its suppliers are foreign.
![When the Mayflower leaves its home port in Plymouth, England to attempt the world’s first fully autonomous transatlantic voyage, it will be guided by a highly trained, artificial intelligence-driven 'captain' and a 'navigator' versed in the rules of avoiding collisions at sea [File: Oliver Dickinson for IBM/ProMare]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Mayflower-seatrials-April-2021-002-2.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Mayflower will make the 3-week trip from the UK to the US guided by an AI-powered captain and without humans on board.
![The legislative package proposed by United States House members has been praised by antitrust experts, who say tech giants like Amazon and Apple have used their power to insulate themselves from competitive threats and that existing law falls short of challenging these companies [File: Bloomberg]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/amazon-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Amazon, Apple and other technology giants could be banned from selling their own branded products if a new law passes.
![A hardline in dealings with China is one of the few themes uniting a divided Congress [File: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg] (Bloomberg)](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/372336511.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
China’s parliament expresses ‘resolute opposition’ to the bill, says it shows the US has ‘paranoid delusion’.
![Twitter said it will work to restore access for all those in Nigeria who rely on it 'to communicate' [Sunday Alamba/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21158630801659.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Lawsuit filed at ECOWAS court in Abuja calls for interim injunction restraining gov’t from implementing suspensi
![Jeff Bezos, 57, the billionaire founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, said he has dreamed of travelling to space since he was five years old [File: John Locher/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21158464434814.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Jeff Bezos plans to be on the inaugural New Shepard rocket flight with his brother, Mark, and an auction winner.
![The government said Twitter was being used for activities 'capable of undermining Nigeria's corporate existence' [File: Olivier Douliery/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/000_9BC38D.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Users take to social media platform to blast authorities’ decision to ‘indefinitely’ suspend its operations.
![A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Jordan Downs in Los Angeles, California on March 10, 2021 [File: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-05-26T172440Z_792561603_RC2TNN9F9AK8_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-LATEST.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
California pays to encourage residents to take jabs as world suffers from rising COVID-19 cases, deaths.
![There was no immediate reaction by Twitter to the announcement by the Nigerian information ministry [File: Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/7cb7e0323cda47fe9af5b28778c3612b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Announcement comes two days after social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari’s account.
![United States space agency NASA announced plans for two missions to Venus, known as Earth's 'sister planet', between 2028 and 2030, the first in decades [File: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/091deed747484f4680f443d45e717cba_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS
Lebanon’s crisis, New Black Wall Street, Venus and space squids
We gather the numbers to know from the week’s biggest economic news stories so you can impress your friends.