Month: May 2021

Electrek sat down with Darren Palmer, head of battery-electric vehicles at Ford, to discuss the automaker’s launch of the F-150 Lightning and the company’s broader electric ambitions. After Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning this week, the EV community was for the most part impressed by the specs and the price point that the automaker announced.
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China’s first Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform and is now roaming the surface of the red planet, China’s space administration said Saturday. The solar-powered rover touched Martian soil at 10:40am Saturday Beijing time (8:10am IST), the China National Space Administration said. Now I’m “literally” on Mars surface. At UTC 2:40, May 22,
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An automated machine stacks packages at Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s huge logistics center in Dongguan, China. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC GUANGZHOU, China — Qin Jiahao has been working at Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com’s logistics operations for around six years. Now a huge amount of his work has become automated. “In the past, almost all the work is manual.
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European leaders and the US have strongly condemned the arrest of a Belarusian dissident journalist after the Ryanair flight he was travelling on was forced to land in the Belarus capital Minsk. Roman Protasevich, 26, was arrested after his Ryanair flight from Athens was diverted from its scheduled destination of Vilnius in Lithuania on Sunday.
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Roman Protasevich was flying from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, when the aircraft was forced to land in Minsk, where he was arrested. Who is he? The 26-year-old journalist worked for Poland-based online news service NEXTA, which broadcast footage of protests against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko last year. They used the Telegram messenger app to
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A former Brussels lawmaker will on Monday be appointed to a key City post as Britain’s financial services industry strives to maintain its international competitiveness after Brexit. Sky News understands that Dr Kay Swinburne, a former vice-chair of the European Parliament’s influential Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, is to be named as the next chair
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