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Elon Musk says Tesla Semi is ready for production, but limited by battery cell output
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on the company’s 2020 Q4 earnings call that all engineering work is now complete on the Tesla Semi, the freight-hauling semi truck that the company is building with an a
Pro-Trump Twitter figure arrested for spreading vote-by-text disinformation in 2016
The man behind a once-influential pro-Trump account is facing charges of election interference for allegedly disseminating voting disinformation on Twitter in 2016. Federal prosecutors allege that Do
Tesla is willing to license Autopilot and has already had ‘preliminary discussions’ about it with other automakers
Tesla is open to licensing its software, including its Autopilot highly-automated driving technology and the neural network training it has built to improve its autonomous driving technology. Tesla CE
WallStreetBets goes dark
After a wild day for public markets driven by Reddit traders commandeering stocks and combatting hedge fund short sellers, the community at r/wallstreetbets no longer has a home on Discord and its Red
Tesla’s power businesses are beginning to take off
Tesla just released its latest earnings report, and the results indicate that Elon Musk’s bets on energy storage and solar are beginning to pay off. The storage business was the star of the comp
Daily Crunch: GameStop becomes a meme stock
Reddit users have some fun with the stock market, Facebook predicts advertising challenges and ByteDance is cutting jobs in India. This is your Daily Crunch for January 27, 2021. The big story: GameSt
ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota warn EU lawmakers over ‘anti-encryption’ push
Four European apps which secure user data via end-to-end encryption, ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota, have issued a joint-statement warning over recent moves by EU institutions that they sa
This is the new interior of Tesla’s Model S and Model X
The Model S will see some significant changes to its interior this year. After months of rumors, Tesla confirmed the revisions in a few images released just ahead of its quarterly earnings call schedu
IAC’s Teltech acquired encrypted mobile messaging app Confide
IAC has acquired Confide, the encrypted mobile messaging that once made headlines for its use by White House staffers during the Trump administration. The deal, which closed on Dec. 1, 2020 but was no
Squarespace files privately to go public
Squarespace announced this afternoon that it is going public. The online website creation and hosting service is a venture-backed entity, having raised Series A and B rounds in 2010 and 2014, respect
Investors don’t seem that impressed by Apple’s $111 billion quarter
On Wednesday, Apple announces that it had banked $111.4 billion of revenue in a single quarter, beating investor expectations and blowing past its previous all-time revenue record. Investors yawned wi
Facebook predicts ‘significant’ obstacles to ad targeting and revenue in 2021
While Facebook’s fourth quarter earnings report included solid user and revenue numbers, the company sounded a note of caution for 2021. In the “CFO outlook” section of the earnings
How trading apps are responding to the GameStop fustercluck
The furor surrounding GameStop and its stock price has consumed social media, business television, and the hopes and dreams of many retail investors. It has even convinced some folks that causing shor
SoftBank teams with home-goods maker Iris Ohyama for new robotics venture
You’d be forgiven for being underwhelmed by the output from SoftBank Robotics thus far. The firm’s best-known product to date is almost certainly Pepper, a humanoid robot designed for greeting and
VC investment in proptech can yield profits and change lives
This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky vision. The future is here and the call to action is now.
SAP is buying Berlin business process automation startup Signavio
Rumors have been flying this week that SAP was going to buy Berlin business process automation startup Signavio, and sure enough the company made it official today. The companies did not reveal the pu
Could meme stocks like GameStop kill bitcoin’s rise?
Cryptocurrencies, more so than most other things, are only valuable because of a shared agreement that they are valuable. Their value is a product of digital handshakes over millions of transactions f
Robert Downey Jr. is launching a new ‘rolling’ venture fund to back sustainability startups
A little less than two years ago, when the actor, producer and investor Robert Downey Jr. unveiled his new, sustainability focused initiative called the FootPrint Coalition at Amazon’s re:MARS c
Spin bets its scooter future on 3 wheels and remote-control tech
Spin, the micromobility startup acquired by Ford, has developed a new scooter with partners Segway-Ninebot and software startup Tortoise that aims to solve the sidewalk clutter problem for good. The S
Dear Sophie: How can I sponsor my mom and stepdad for green cards?
My biological dad passed away several years ago when I was an adult and my mom has since remarried. Can they get green cards?