Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to employees noting the Atlanta shooting’s effect on the company’s large Asian population. “I know the effects of the hateful violence
Month: March 2021
A Banksy original offering an “image of hope” during the pandemic has sold for a record £16.8m, auction house Christie’s has said – with the proceeds going to health charities. The anonymous artist’s Game Changer work appeared at Southampton Hospital as a thank you to staff during the first wave of the COVID-19 crisis. While
Nicola Sturgeon has survived a vote of no confidence in her leadership after a Holyrood committee found she misled parliament. The Scottish Conservatives tabled the motion of no confidence, but it was always expected to fail after the Scottish Greens said they would not support such a vote. It comes after a cross-party committee of
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hailed the “courage, discipline and patience of the nation” one year after he first announced a lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking at a Downing Street news conference, he said: “We suffered so many losses.” And he said we have at times been “fighting in the dark” against a
President Joe Biden has called for an assault weapon ban and the closure of background check loopholes, after the seventh mass killing this year in the US left 10 dead. In an address to the nation following the bloodshed at a supermarket in Colorado, the president said simply: “We must act.” And he called on
9:30 AM ET The U.S. women feature heavily on the first-ever ESPN FC Women’s Rank, though there’s tough competition all over the globe for top honors. ESPN While 2020 might have thrown everything it could in the way of women’s soccer, leagues and clubs fought to get players back on the pitch and give us enthralling
The National Rifle Association has again defended the right to gun ownership after ten people were killed in a US supermarket shootout. SWAT teams and at least three helicopters were called to the Kings Sooper store in Boulder – about 28 miles north of central Denver – after reports of a man wearing tactical gear
Nova Innovation An electric vehicle charging point which uses tidal energy has started operations, providing road users on an island north of mainland Scotland with a new, renewable option for running their cars. The facility is located on Yell, which is part of Shetland, an archipelago of roughly 100 islands. The charging point gets its
Kylie Jenner has responded after facing criticism for not donating more to a funding page in aid of a make-up artist who was reportedly seriously injured in a car crash. The row started when the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star and cosmetics entrepreneur shared the GoFundMe page, set up to pay Samuel Rauda’s medical
Cineworld has revealed plans to reopen screens in its biggest markets, including the UK, but said nothing about how it will staff cinemas after effectively axing up to 45,000 workers six months ago. The world’s second-largest cinema operator temporarily laid off staff – almost 6,000 of them in the UK – last October as movie
Germany’s lockdown restrictions have been extended for almost another month as the country faces a rising rate of coronavirus infections. Chancellor Angela Merkel said restrictions previously due to end on 28 March will now remain in place until 18 April. Public life will be largely shut down from 1-3 April, with a public holiday and
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With official US electricity generation in for last year, I have now created new charts for how US electricity generation has shifted by source from 2010 through 2020. The charts just cover the main sources (solar, wind, coal, natural gas, and nuclear). Based on reader feedback, I’ve created two charts for each source this time
McDonald’s have vowed to crackdown on “speed of service” competitions after workers told Sky News the contests were making it impossible to follow the chain’s COVID safety rules. Pre-pandemic restaurants regularly competed with each other and could see live data and leader boards on screens in their kitchens. However, McDonald’s UK had said the competitions
In this article TSLA AMZN Smith Collection/Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images A U.S. federal agency is considering as evidence a former Tesla employee’s complaint about how the company managed and communicated about fire risks and defects in its solar installations, CNBC has learned from documents received through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Originally published on EV Annex. There are many of us who’ve invested a big chunk of change into Tesla [NASDAQ: TSLA] hoping the stock will (eventually) continue its meteoric rise. Much of this investment thesis revolves around one man: Elon Musk. Is Elon a good bet? David Kuo recently weighed in via Channel News Asia with his
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