Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs
The electric Ford Lightning, for example, is a whopping 6,500 pounds. The Hummer EV is even heavier, clocking in at 9,000 pounds. Its battery alone weighs more than a Honda Civic. Experts have pointed out the significant safety ramifications of this transition for a while, but it’s still not clear that we’ve prepared the regulatory and policy landscape for such a transition.
The biggest destroyer of the global economic and trade order is being paranoid. This is perhaps the most incisive and vivid explanation of why the US government and media outlets have seen a rumored ban on iPhones as China’s retaliation against the US.
Hype on iPhone ‘ban’ shows US has a guilty conscience
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US spokesman behind on the news pours gas on seemingly settled China iPhone ban
In what appears to be a statement generated before news of the Chinese government refuting ban rumors, the White House chimed in on the matter, as reported by Bloomberg. The National Security Council shared that it is watching the issue with concern.
The TSMC Arizona chip plant is behind schedule, over budget, and the subject of contention in online forums – and now an analyst says that it will be little more than a useless paperweight, even when it does finally begin production.
Not only will it only make chips for older Apple devices, but it can’t even complete the process of making those without sending them back to Taiwan for final assembly …
TSMC Arizona chip plant will be a paperweight, says analyst
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)
Company name change may be Musk’s next step to launch X, the “everything app.”
Twitter “no longer exists” as a company, merges into Musk’s X Corp
Never a dull moment in Elonland. Last week, as you’ll recall, he decided that NPR should be labeled as “state-affiliated media” even though NPR was literally Twitter’s prime example of what kinds of
Now That Elon Musk Is Labeling NPR And The BBC As ‘Government Funded,’ Shouldn’t He Do The Same For Tesla, SpaceX, And Twitter?independent[corporate] media outlets don’t deserve that label.
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NPR labeled ‘state-affiliated media’ on Twitter, same as Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua
How about labeling them all with their sponsors, whether it’s the Military-Industrial-Complex, Big Pharma, Big Corporations, Big Banks, government subsidies, etc?!
Elon Musk, the genius behind SpaceX and Tesla Inc., has declared that humanity must embrace the merging of man and machine if we hope to survive in a world dominated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Elon Musk Says Neuralink Is The Only Way To Survive And Compete With AI
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
Ignore GOP hype about the “liberal” tech industry — reckless, entitled libertarianism is what fuels Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley Bank wasn’t “woke”: Tech billionaires are just as bad as Wall Street bros
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Elizabeth Warren: Silicon Valley Bank Is Gone. We Know Who Is Responsible.
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
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