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Toyota banks on mobility technology for future growth

Japanese automaker Toyota is revving up acquisitions in mobility technology, adding Renovo Motors Inc., a Silicon Valley software developer, to its Woven Planet team, which is working on automated driving. The addition, announced Tuesday, follows the purchase earlier this year of CARMERA Inc., a U.S. venture that specializes in sophisticated road mapping updates made cheaper […]

“President Biden is not the friendliest,” says Elon Musk

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is “not the friendliest,” according to Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who criticized Biden during the Code Conference interview.  After the White House brushed off Musk’s EV company last month, the Tesla founder has been extremely vocal regarding his dismissal to Biden.   If you’re wondering how the White House brushed off the current richest man in the world, well, it all starts […]

Ford to add 10,800 jobs making electric vehicles, batteries

Ford and a partner company say they plan to build three major electric-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant by 2025 — a dramatic investment in the future of EV technology that will create an estimated 10,800 jobs and shift the automaker’s future manufacturing footprint toward the South. The factories, to be built on […]

British computing inventor Clive Sinclair dies at 81

Clive Sinclair, the British inventor and entrepreneur who arguably did more than anyone else to inspire a whole generation of children into a life-long passion for computers and gaming, has died. He was 81. Sinclair, who rose to prominence in the early 1980s with a series of affordable home computers that offered millions their first […]

Softbank’s delisting of U.S. Big Tech Giants

Softbank dropped $5 billion worth of publicly listed shares through its SB NorthStar trading unit of four tech giants during its first quarter, the Japanese conglomerate revealed in a financial report released on Tuesday. Back in 2020, the Tokyo-based multinational company vastly invested in social networking platform Facebook, Google’s parent company Alphabet, popular streaming service […]

Bitcoin will unite the world, Twitter’s CEO says

Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, took to his personal account to tweet a cryptic message about Bitcoin, suggesting that the cryptocurrency will be behind the unity of the country, and eventually the world itself.  Vagueness shrouds Dorsey’s optimism about Bitcoin’s power leaving many of his followers bewildered of his stance.  However, it doesn’t take two to figure out that the country in […]

Musk’s SpaceX partners with firms to make satellite gear in India

American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX plans to extend its partnership with Indian firms to locally manufacture satellite communication equipment as it gears up to launch its high-speed satellite Starlink in 2022.  The meeting was conducted with the global satellite companies including officials from global communications networks OneWeb, Viasat, Hughes, in addition to Department of Space and the Regulatory Authority of India.  […]

Elon Musk Hails Dogecoin While Salvadorans Reject Bitcoin

At this point, the idea of Elon Musk easily playing with the crypto market through social media is reoccurring, as the Tesla Chief strikes once again with another tweet that swung the market in the favor of Dogecoin. Leave it to the “Dogefather” himself to lift the meme-coin from its slump. After witnessing a steady […]

Square Inc Reveals Plan for Crypto-Wallet hardware

U.S.-based hardware company Square Inc announced on Tuesday plans to create a hardware wallet for Bitcoin, following a U.S. senator’s warning about imposed cryptocurrency threats on consumers and financial markets. The U.S. based financial service and digital payments company Square Inc — announced via one of its lead’s Twitter account– its plan to create a […]

Starlink internet to go live in two months, Elon Musk says

Starlink internet will be provided worldwide, excluding both poles, within the next two months, Starlink and SpaceX chief Elon Musk said during the Mobile World Congress. The Tesla CEO highlighted that Starlink will be able to launch satellites into orbit, while promising to deliver high-speed broadband internet to as many users as possible. Musk broke […]