Toyota will open a multi-billion dollar battery plant with at least 1,750 employees about an hour’s drive outside the Triangle, after North Carolina approved an incentive package Monday worth $438.7 million for the company — one of the largest manufac…
Crypto CEOs Will Testify Before US House Panel
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Crypto Briefing: The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services has announced that several cryptocurrency executives will testify at a panel hearing. Jeremy Allaire, CEO of the USD Coin company Circle, is first …
Trigger of Rare Blood Clots In AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Found
Long-time Slashdot reader tlhIngan writes: The AstraZeneca vaccine, one of the few approved vaccines to fight COVID-19, was under fire earlier this year for causing blood clots. While the vaccine is still approved for use, and is being used, scientists…
Renewable Energy Has ‘Another Record Year of Growth’ Says IEA
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: It has been another record year for renewable energy, despite the Covid-19 pandemic and rising costs for raw materials around the world, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). About 29…
Meta Allows More Cryptocurrency Ads
Meta is backing away from its longstanding (if not absolute) ban on cryptocurrency ads. Engadget reports: As CNBC reports, Meta has greatly loosened its ban by expanding the number of regulatory licenses it accepts from three to 27. The crypto landscap…
EU Official: Semiconductor Independence Is Impossible
According to Margrethe Vestager, EU’s Commissioner for Competition, it’s unlikely that the EU will ever become completely independent from other countries as far as semiconductor supply is concerned. Tom’s Hardware reports: Leading contract makers of s…
Apple Loses Key Autos Engineer To Electric Aviation Startup Archer
Michael Schwekutsch, a director of engineering in the Apple Special Projects Group that’s reportedly working on self-driving cars, has left to join electric air taxi start-up Archer as its senior VP of engineering. Schwekutsch noted the change on his L…
HashiCorp’s IPO Will Place It Among the Most Richly Valued Open Source Tech Companies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The HashiCorp IPO intends to shoot the narrows between Thanksgiving and Christmas, with its first IPO pricing interval set to give it among the richest valuations of any technology company with a str…
Qualcomm’s New Always-On Smartphone Camera Is a Privacy Nightmare
At the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2021 yesterday, Qualcomm introduced their new always-on camera capabilities in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, which is expected to arrive in high-end Android phones early next year. The company says this new feature wil…
Jack Dorsey’s Square Changes Corporate Name To Block
Square, the financial services and digital payments company founded by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey in 2010, announced today that it is changing its name to Block. From a press release: Block will be the name for the company as a corporate entity. The …