China’s CATL, the world’s largest battery maker, has offered discounts to some Chinese automakers it supplies, reflecting a downturn in the price of lithium and a bid to win more orders, three people with knowledge of the offers said. Battery costs are the most expensive component in electric vehicles (EV) and a move toward lower […]
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China will scrutinize Ford Motor Co’s latest deal with battery giant CATL to ensure the Chinese company’s core technology is not shared with the U.S. automaker, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Beijing is concerned the Detroit carmaker could gain access to the competitive aspects of CATL’s technology, but the scrutiny is unlikely to result in […]
In 2021, a California state court threw out a feminist blogger’s lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of unlawfully barring as “hateful conduct” posts criticizing transgender people. In 2022, a federal court in California tossed a lawsuit by LGBT plaintiffs accusing YouTube, part of Alphabet Inc, of restricting content posted by gay and transgender people. These lawsuits […]
Modern physics incorporated many discoveries and theories and gave birth to some of the world’s most celebrated works, from Marie Curie’s radioisotopes to Vera Rubin’s Dark Matter. This dive into the universe and what makes it, well, itself, is fascinating, but for the sake of this article, I’d like to highlight one critical piece of […]
Signs of strength in the U.S. economy have buoyed stocks in the face of rising Treasury yields and hawkish Federal Reserve expectations, though some investors believe the rally may be on borrowed time. Stronger-than-expected reports on employment, retail sales and inflation have pushed up expectations for how much higher the Federal Reserve will need to […]
Have you ever been worried of being at the mercy of clumsy human hands during surgical procedures? Do you envision a time when robots could provide you with total medical care? Well, you’re in luck! The emergence of 5G technology has opened new frontiers for the application of robotic surgery, making it a reality that […]
A top U.S. law enforcement official on Thursday unveiled a new “disruptive technology strike force” tasked with safe-guarding American technology from foreign adversaries and other national security threats. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, the No. 2 official at the U.S. Justice Department, announced the new strike force at a speech in London at Chatham House. […]
Switzerland-based microchip toolmaker Unisers said on Thursday it had raised $14 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital to build new-technology demonstrator machines for trials by major chip-fabrication customers. The machines would offer a new level of performance in the difficult task of detecting extraneous extremely small particles that ruin chips in production, […]
The telecom sector is renowned for constantly evolving. Fixed landlines were the essential Telco product in the early days of the industry. But with the introduction of the mobile phone, this changed to mobile subscriptions and the enormous cash cow that is SMS. Thanks to Blockchain. The telecom industry has a lot of potentials to […]
China on Thursday put Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Technologies Corp on an “unreliable entities list” over arms sales to Taiwan, banning them from imports and exports related to China in its latest sanctions against the two U.S. companies. The measures come amid heightened tensions after the U.S. military shot down what it says was […]