by The Editor | Sep 22, 2020 | News
Here we go again: Absentee votes in Wisconsin are due by Election Day, state law says. But on Monday a federal judge ordered the counting of ballots that arrive by Nov. 9, provided their postmarks say Nov. 3. After similar rulings in Pennsylvania and Michigan, none of...
by Kirsten Korosec | Sep 22, 2020 | News
A little more than a year ago, during Tesla’s 2019 shareholder’s meeting, CEO Elon Musk said the company “might get into the business of mining minerals used in electric vehicle batteries.” Today, during Tesla’s so-called Battery Day event, Musk confirmed that the...
by The Editor | Sep 22, 2020 | News
We didn’t know Sheldon Whitehouse scared so easily. Our editorial Tuesday laid out questions to ask the Rhode Island Senator about his own dark-money ties when he testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee. At the event he refused to answer, and Democratic...
by Daniel Oberhaus | Sep 22, 2020 | News
“Large format reduces all the ‘inactive’ materials, like packaging. So pack-level energy density will improve and cost will come down,” says Shirley Meng, a materials scientist who runs the Laboratory for Energy Storage & Conversion at the University of...
by Jonathan Shieber | Sep 22, 2020 | News
Amid a packed afternoon of announcements from Tesla around innovations the company is pursuing to slash the cost of electric vehicle production and energy storage through better battery design, the company said it’s made new advancements in material science for anodes...
by The Editor | Sep 22, 2020 | News
‘The voters of this country should be heard,” Joe Biden said this weekend as he exhorted Senate Republicans to block a vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. That might be clever messaging—who doesn’t want voters to be heard? But there’s one problem: Unlike...
by Alex Wilhelm | Sep 22, 2020 | News
TransferWise, a European fintech unicorn, announced the financial results of its fiscal year ending March, 2020. The company posted strong growth, continued profit and new customer records. TransferWise was most recently valued at $5 billion during a secondary sale...
by The Editor | Sep 22, 2020 | News
The Communist Party’s oppression of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang has tarnished China’s image and complicated its relationship with countless countries. Yet a report from the Jamestown Foundation published Tuesday says Beijing is extending this repression by bringing...
by Darrell Etherington | Sep 22, 2020 | News
Tesla held its ‘Battery Day’ event on Tuesday to discuss a variety of innovations it has developed and is pursuing in battery technology for its vehicles. At the event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and SVP of Powertrain and Energy Engineering Drew Baglino detailed new anode...
by Anthony Ha | Sep 22, 2020 | News
Microsoft takes on Twilio, Google launches a work-tracking tool and Mirakl raises $300 million. This is your Daily Crunch for September 22, 2020. The big story: Microsoft launches Azure Communication Services Microsoft announced today that it’s ready to compete with...
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