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German road traffic agency says 59,000 Tesla vehicles have software glitch
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of the new Tesla electric car manufacturing plant on March 22, 2022 near Gruenheide, Germany. Christian Marquardt | Getty Images Germany’s road traffic agency said it was recalling Tesla models Y and 3 because of a fault in the automatic emergency call system that affects 59,000 vehicles […]
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Tesla delivered 254,695 electric vehicles in the second quarter of 2022
A giant cowboy boot is on display outside the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing facility during the “Cyber Rodeo” grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas. Suzanne Cordeiro | AFP | Getty Images Tesla just posted its second-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers for 2022. Here are the key numbers: Total deliveries Q2 […]
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Google says it will delete location history for visits to abortion clinics after overturning of Roe v. Wade
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google said late Friday that it will work to quickly delete location history for people going to abortion sites and other medical sites following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last week. “Today, we’re announcing that if our systems identify that […]
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TikTok tells U.S. lawmakers it’s working to protect user data from Chinese employees
A leader of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said he has asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over data security concerns. Pictured here is the TikTok download page on an Apple iPhone on August 7, 2020. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images TikTok, a unit of China’s […]
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Biden awards posthumous Medal of Freedom to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs
The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiling the first iPhone in 2007. David Paul Morris | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, along with 16 other people. The award is the country’s highest civilian honor and the White […]
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Wealthy customers will help Apple resist the effects of inflation
An employee arranges Apple iPhones as customer shop at an Apple store. Mike Segar | Reuters The last time Apple faced an inflationary environment like this, it had been a public company for less than a year and its best-selling product was the Apple II home computer. In May, the annual inflation rate in the […]
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Micron warns weakening consumer demand will hurt smartphone sales
Sanjay Mehrota, Micron Technology President & CEO at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on May 24th, 2022. Adam Galica | CNBC Micron Technology, a major vendor of memory chips for PCs and smartphones, said on Thursday that it expects smartphone sales to be meaningfully lower than previously expected for the rest of 2022, citing a reduction […]
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Big technology stocks like Tesla, Amazon and Microsoft just finished their worst quarter in years
Elon Musk attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/Getty Images) Gotham | Getty Images Investors lowered the valuations of the world’s largest technology companies in the second quarter as central bankers ratcheted up […]
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FCC authorizes SpaceX to provide mobile Starlink internet service to boats, planes and trucks
The Starlink logo is seen in the background of a silhouetted woman holding a mobile phone. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The Federal Communications Commission authorized SpaceX to provide Starlink satellite internet to vehicles in motion, a key step for Elon Musk’s company to further expand the service. “Authorizing a new class of […]
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Atlassian billionaire co-CEO Scott Farquhar saved a man’s life at a Las Vegas nightclub in April
Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-CEO of the global software company, Atlassian, speaks at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, April 10, 2018. Chris Hopins | The Australian Financial Review | Getty Images As co-CEO of collaboration software maker Atlassian, Scott Farquhar has had a tough year along with many of his industry peers. The company’s […]
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