Tag: said

  • New White House Website Contact Form: State Your Pronouns

    New White House Website Contact Form: State Your Pronouns

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    Now that Joe Biden has been inaugurated as president, the White House website contact form wants you to list something in addition to your name, address, phone, and email address: your pronouns. The @WhiteHouse website contact form now asks for your pronouns. pic.twitter.com/W5S36efo1d — GLAAD (@glaad) January 20, 2021 That’s not the only change the…

  • Electric vehicle sales accelerated through 2020 – but cost remains a roadblock, RAC analysis finds

    Electric vehicle sales accelerated through 2020 – but cost remains a roadblock, RAC analysis finds

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    EV uptake continues to accelerate but price, access to infrastructure and driving range continue to deter many drivers, new analysis from RAC has found A growing proportion of drivers intend to choose an electric rather than internal combustion car when they next switch vehicles – but high prices, inadequate infrastructure, and the limited distance reachable…

  • Pandemic reveals tale of 2 Californias like never before

    Pandemic reveals tale of 2 Californias like never before

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    SACRAMENTO — The tale of two Californias has never been clearer. As Bay Area tech workers set up home offices to avoid coronavirus exposure, grocers, farm workers and warehouse employees in the Central Valley never stopped reporting to job sites. Renters pleaded for eviction relief while urban professionals fled for suburbs and resort towns, taking…

  • Biggest problem for automakers? Playstations

    Biggest problem for automakers? Playstations

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    Automakers braced for chaos when the pandemic struck. They anticipated supply chain disruptions and plummeting earnings. However they never figured a year later one of their biggest issues will be PlayStations.Strong requirement for gaming systems, personal computers and other electronic equipment by a planet stuck indoors has pumped up supplies of semiconductors, forcing carmakers around…

  • Famed Tattoo Artist Kat Von D Leaving California Due To ‘Tyrannical Government Overreach’

    Famed Tattoo Artist Kat Von D Leaving California Due To ‘Tyrannical Government Overreach’

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    Famed tattoo artist Kat Von D announced she will be leaving Los Angeles for a small city in Indiana due to tyrannical government overreach. At a Facebook post a week, the former “LA Ink” celebrity said that although she won’t be promoting her Los Angeles home, she’ll be relocating with her son part-time, citing California’s…

  • The quest to replicate Tesla’s success keeps EV mania alive

    The quest to replicate Tesla’s success keeps EV mania alive

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    By Craig TrudellTesla has thrilled several investors and jarred the others by soaring to some $616 billion evaluation this month, an amount the planet ’s top seven carmakers were jointly worth in the beginning of the year. The business is currently comfortably in a category by itself, defying even Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s warnings.…

  • [YS Learn] What does Elon Musk’s move to Texas mean for startup ecosystems around the world

    [YS Learn] What does Elon Musk’s move to Texas mean for startup ecosystems around the world

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    Tech entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk moved to Austin, Texas, last week. Musk, who is also the Founder, CEO, and chief designer of SpaceX, is one of the high-profile tech entrepreneurs to have moved out of California during the pandemic.  Similarly, in November 2020, Joe Lonsdale, a general partner at venture capital firm 8VC,…

  • Indonesia primed for key role in EV battery production

    Indonesia primed for key role in EV battery production

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    Indonesia is increasingly becoming an electric vehicle (EV) industry force to be reckoned with, as the Southest Asian country is making great strides towards becoming a key player in the field as a manufacturer of EV batteries, wrote PwC Indonesia automotive industry expert Hendra Lie in Nikkei Asia. President of Indonesia Joko Widodo has repeatedly…

  • Global Briefing: French court orders government to justify failure to deliver bolder climate plan

    Global Briefing: French court orders government to justify failure to deliver bolder climate plan

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    French legal rulings, Indonesian forest protection efforts, and plans to make Australia a renewables superpower, all feature in this week’s green business round-up from around the world Court gives French government three months to explain why climate plan is not in line with emissions goals France has this week become the latest country where climate…