After years of failed promises on transit, Silicon Valley is loading cars with new technologies to get a cut of the profits—and to collect data on us.
Big Tech Is Watching You as You Drive (archived)
Tag: electric vehicles
Carbon footprint: The devious fossil fuel propaganda we all use
A ‘successful, deceptive’ PR campaign.
The devious fossil fuel propaganda we all use
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US government bailout of Silicon Valley and banks is $300B gift to rich oligarchs
The US Federal Reserve printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs. 93% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits were uninsured, over the FDIC limit of $250,000, but the government still paid them. 56% of SVB’s loans went to venture capitalist and private equity firms.
US government bailout of Silicon Valley and banks is $300B gift to rich oligarchs
How America can win the Chip Wars
There is a 20% chance of military confrontation
How America can win the Chip Wars
America’s $52 Billion Plan to Make Chips at Home Faces a Labor Shortage + manufacturing chips in the US could make smartphones more expensive
America’s $52 Billion Plan to Make Chips at Home Faces a Labor Shortage
Another possible fix would be to keep people in the workforce longer, by raising the age at which workers can begin collecting Social Security or tapping into their pensions or 401(k)s. Yet Harry Holzer, a former US Department of Labor chief economist now at Georgetown University, says that neither feels politically feasible right now. Immigration has been a toxic issue in American politics for years, and Social Security has long been an untouchable entitlement. “None of that is doable,” Holzer says, which means “our labor force growth is going to continue to be modest.”
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How manufacturing chips in the US could make smartphones more expensive
Morcos says a top concern of his is the narrowness of the CHIPS Act. Without bringing related device manufacturing back to the U.S., such as device batteries, sensors, cameras, antennas, and hundreds of other components, the manufacturing process could require the most critical component to be produced stateside, then shipped overseas to be assembled with hundreds of other components into a device that is then shipped back to the U.S. for the American consumer.
Work longer, for less pay, and you still won’t be able to afford the latest smartphone or laptop?! 🤷🏼♀️
‘They Now Need Democracy’: Iran claims to have discovered 8.5 million-ton lithium deposit
The new discovery is the second largest in the world, amounting to almost a tenth of the world’s lithium.
Iran claims to have discovered 8.5 million-ton lithium deposit
Elections & Lithium Mining: Why is the US Suddenly Running ‘Get Out the Vote Ads’ in Nigeria?
Elections & Lithium Mining: Why is the US Suddenly Running ‘Get Out the Vote Ads’ in Nigeria?
Last year, US-based electric vehicle company Tesla put in a bid for a contract to mine some of that Lithium, but the Nigerian government denied them. Nigeria, like most African countries, has a history of foreign powers exploiting them for their national resources while offering little value to the people of Nigeria.
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Democrats Praise Bush, Want More Small-Business War Profiteers
Well it’s another big day for Democrats doing Democraty things.
Democrats Praise Bush, Want More Small-Business War Profiteers
Regime Change Coming to India?! Lithium found in Jammu & Kashmir India
How the U.S. is pressuring Elon Musk to unlock Tesla EV chargers
The Department of Transportation next week is expected to finalize a requirement that will pressure Tesla to expand beyond its proprietary charging equipment in the U.S. and add the charger used by its competitors, Reuters reported.
How the U.S. is pressuring Elon Musk to unlock Tesla EV chargers
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