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All eyes on VW after Hyundai, Kia adopt Tesla charging standard Oct 06, 2023

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Hyundai and Kia have finally announced their plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) ports for their electric vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, joining the swells of automakers that have also promised to do so.

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Union Square Ventures backs Indian EV infra startup Bolt.Earth in $20M funding Oct 06, 2023

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Bolt.Earth, an Indian startup that offers charging infrastructure and software solutions for electric vehicles, has raised $20 million in a funding round to expand its presence within the South Asian nation and enter into new markets.

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X cuts headlines from link previews as Musk wants users posting directly on the platform Oct 05, 2023

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X, formerly Twitter, has started cutting headlines from link cards on the iOS app and on the web. This means you will see just an image with the domain name of the link on the bottom left, which is easy to miss.

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In latest Cruise incident, video shows pedestrian struck by human-driven car, then run over by robotaxi Oct 05, 2023

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The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an October 2 incident that left a woman stuck underneath a Cruise robotaxi after being hit by a human-driven vehicle.

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Electric Hydrogen is the green hydrogen industry’s first unicorn Oct 04, 2023

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Investors have historically been skeptical of green hydrogen.

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Cloaked manages your logins with proxy emails, phone numbers and a built-in password manager Oct 04, 2023

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Boston-based privacy and security startup Cloaked, launched its apps today to let users create unique proxy emails, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.

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Stitch raises $25M Series A extension led by Ribbit Capital, increasing the round’s total to $46M Oct 03, 2023

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Open banking, in which traditional banks release their data via application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable the development of new financial services for their consumers, has been one of the most significant disruptions in global payments over the past decade.

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VW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany Oct 03, 2023

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Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput.

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BeReal pushes back at report that it’s losing steam, says it now has 25M daily users Oct 02, 2023

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Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching the app every day to snap their candid photos.

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SpaceX’s defense-focused Starshield satellite internet business lands first contract Oct 02, 2023

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SpaceX won its first contract for Starshield, the defense-focused version of its Starlink satellite internet service, from the U.S. Space Force.

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