Damon Beres, executive editor at Mashable, talks the New York Times report that Facebook gave device makers like Apple and Samsung access to user data. [We discuss what this means for the social media giant as the company reels from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.](https://mashable.com/2018/06/04/facebook-device-data-agreements/)
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.
U.S. states could face some hurdles as they experiment with road usage charging programs aimed at one day replacing motor fuel taxes, which are generating less each year, in part due to fuel efficiency and the rise of electric cars.
