Unity CEO John Riccitiello speaks onstage during Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 5, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Steve Jennings | TechCrunch | Getty Images With Silicon Valley’s tech workers stuck inside amid the dueling crises of the coronavirus pandemic and raging wildfires across California, the industry is
Month: September 2020
Downing Street is calling for “more realism” from the EU in trade negotiations but believes a post-Brexit trade deal is still possible despite a tumultuous week. Relations between Brussels and London soured dramatically as Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to back down over plans to override the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement. The EU had threatened legal
Tesla is preparing to export its made-in-China Model 3 cars to Europe and other markets, according to two new reports despite Elon Musk saying that Tesla wasn’t going to do just that. When Tesla started building its Gigafactory in Shanghai, in an attempt to reassure people that the automaker wasn’t just shifting production capacity to
A computer-generated image of the new Mayflower vessel. IBM Humans aren’t the only ones to have had their travel plans ruined by the coronavirus. A robot-powered boat that was due to cross the Atlantic this month has been forced to delay its voyage until next April after the virus caused complications in its development. The
Any short-term benefit that Instagram would see from a potential TikTok ban is “greatly outweighed by the risks of a fragmented internet,” Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Friday. “If we move to a place where countries start to silo internet within them, and we can’t operate in that way, I think that it’s much more
Here’s the irony: up until recently, if there was one part of the European Union which most Conservatives said they actually rather liked, it was the state aid regime. This, after all, was the one bit of the single market that Britain put most store by. Indeed, back in the 1980s when it was being
The rate of COVID-19 transmission has risen above a critical level that means the infection is growing exponentially, official figures show. According to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), the latest estimate for R across the UK is between 1.0 and 1.2. The number represents the average number of people each person with coronavirus
September 11th, 2020 by Frugal Moogal Note: Nothing below is investment advice. I’ve been thinking about writing this article for a while, but have held off because of how enthusiastic the overall market has been about the potential for Tesla to be included in the S&P 500. I’ve avoided addressing it in my other articles
Engineers have developed a robot that can detect whether people are wearing a mask to guard against COVID-19 and, if not, politely remind them to put one on. The feature is an upgrade of Pepper, a 120 centimetre (47 inch) high robot with human-like features that is already in operation in some countries welcoming visitors to
NASA on Thursday announced it was in the market for Moon rocks, and wants to pay companies to scoop out the dirt, take a photo, and then have it ready for collection by a future mission. The contract doesn’t actually involve getting to the Moon itself, a feat only achieved by the national space agencies
An expert on Amazon rainforest tribes has died after being shot near the heart with an arrow by an uncontacted indigenous group. Rieli Franciscato, 56, “pulled the arrow from his chest” before succumbing to his injuries after he was struck, witnesses said. The incident happened on Wednesday as the government worker tried to introduce himself
In ordinary times chancellors and prime ministers would trade a limb for a monthly increase in GDP of 6.6%, but these are far from normal days and there are already signs that the post-lockdown bounce back may be losing some of its zip. The positives first. The recovery in July continues the V-shaped trajectory established
2:31 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com Serena Williams held onto the back of her legs as she bent over, wincing in pain on the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Thursday night. She limped over to her seat, requesting a trainer to take a look at her left ankle. Her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, and her longtime
More than half a million people have been forced to evacuate their homes in Oregon as wildfires across the US West Coast continue to rage, killing several people. At least 100 wildfires are burning across 12 western US states, with more than 10% of hard-hit Oregon‘s 4.2 million population told to flee their properties. Governor
The economy remained 11.7% below its coronavirus pandemic peak in July as the UK emerges from its sharpest recession on record, official figures show The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.6% in the month as more parts of the economy awakened from the enforced hibernation of the COVID-19
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