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5 Things You Need To Know, Today, on Wednesday 20th April 2022
5. People using self-driving cars will be allowed to watch television on built-in screens under proposed updates to the Highway Code.
The changes will say drivers must be ready to take back control of vehicles when prompted, the government said.
4. The co-founder of collapsed energy firm Bulb has defended continuing to be paid £250,000 a year, saying he is helping with a sale of the company.
Boss Hayden Wood told MPs he was asked to stay on to "support customers".
3. People are set to be better protected from fake reviews and "subscription traps" under plans to tackle rip-offs.
Proposals include making it "clearly illegal" to pay someone to write or host fake reviews as the competition watchdog will get new powers to fine firms up to 10% of their global turnover for bad business practices.
2. The number of Netflix subscribers has fallen for the first time in more than a decade.
The streaming company lost 200,000 members in the first three months of the year, and the company is looking to advertising and getting revenues from customers who share accounts with family or friends.
1. The war in Ukraine will "severely set back" the global economic recovery with the UK hit harder than most, the International Monetary Fund has said.
This means the UK will no longer be the fastest growing economy in the G7 group of leading Western nations, and will be the slowest in 2023, it says growing by 1.2% down from the 2.3% previously expected.