{"id":4822,"date":"2025-01-21T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2025-01-25T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T19:57:10","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-january-19th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-january-19th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 January 19th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Trump ends &#8216;electric vehicle mandate,&#8217; withdraws US from Paris climate agreement &#8211; USA Today | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-executive-order-day-1-electric-vehicle\/77835683007\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US &#8211; CNN | <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/21\/tech\/openai-oracle-softbank-trump-ai-investment\/index.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blue Ghost moon lander sees Earth as a &#8216;blue marble&#8217; from orbit (photo) &#8211; Space | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/blue-ghost-moon-lander-sees-earth-as-a-blue-marble-from-orbit-photo\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google reportedly worked with Israel Defense Forces on AI contracts &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/22\/24349582\/google-israel-defense-forces-idf-contract-gaza\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>China launches fourth batch of Thousand Sails megaconstellation satellites &#8211; SpaceNews | <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/china-launches-fourth-batch-of-thousand-sails-megaconstellation-satellites\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trump signs executive order to pause TikTok ban, provide immunity to tech firms &#8211; NPR | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/01\/20\/nx-s1-5268701\/trump-executive-order-tiktok-ban\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ends &#8216;electric vehicle mandate,&#8217; withdraws US from Paris climate agreement &#8211; USA Today | Link Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US &#8211; CNN | Link Blue Ghost moon lander sees Earth as a &#8216;blue marble&#8217; from orbit (photo) &#8211; Space | Link Google reportedly worked with Israel Defense Forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}