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Over half of all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2030 are expected to be electric vehicles. That could put a major strain on our nation’s electric grid, an aging system built for a world that runs on fossil fuels. Domestic electricity demand in 2022 is expected to increase up to 18% by 2030

Aigen founders: Rich Wurden (CTO) and Kenny Lee (CEO) Courtesy: Aigen The Aigen Element looks like a drafting table on rugged tires. It drives itself continuously at around two miles per hour over farmland, using an advanced computer vision system to identify crops and unwanted botanical invaders. With two-axis robotic arms positioned close the ground,

In this article AAPL NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook stands next to the new Apple Vision Pro headset is displayed during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 05, 2023 in Cupertino, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The last time technology stocks had a better first half, Apple

In this article .FKRX300 Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT SK Telecom’s “A.” (pronounced “A dot”) artificial intelligence chatbot has a character that speaks to people. The company has integrated its various service from music streaming to e-commerce into A. and is planning to launch it fully in 2023. SK Telecom, one of South Korea’s

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google tried to distance itself from a pre-planned drag show featuring longtime performer “Peaches Christ” in San Francisco but employees still attended. Some of them booed their employer for what they viewed as a caving to pressure of an internal religion-led protest. Jennifer Elias A

Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou reacts as she leaves her home to attend a court hearing in Vancouver, Canada, August 10, 2021. Jennifer Gauthier | Reuters SHANGHAI — Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou said Wednesday that applying 5G technology to business was more difficult than she had expected. One of the expectations

In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Gina Raimondo, US secretary of Commerce, from left, Antony Blinken, U.S. secretary of state, and Katherine Tai, US trade representative, at a discussion during the US-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting in College Park, Maryland, US, on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Ting Shen | Bloomberg

Samsung is the world’s biggest maker of memory chips. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Samsung Electronics on Wednesday laid out its roadmap to expand its chip manufacturing business, including leading-edge semiconductors, as it looks to catch up with leader TSMC. Perhaps best known for its smartphones, the South Korean technology firm has a

The Google logo is seen with the rainbow flag as a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and queer pride and LGBT social movements in New York City on June 7, 2022. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Google is distancing itself from a drag performance that it planned as the closing event

In this article BIDU Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chinese technology giant Baidu has launched its own ChatGPT rival, Ernie bot. CFOTO | Future Publishing | Getty Images Baidu said Tuesday the artificial intelligence model underpinning its chatbot outperformed OpenAI’s ChatGPT in several key areas. The Chinese search engine has been publicly testing the

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple Watch Ultra underwater Apple Even as developers, financial analysts, and select members of the media get hands-on with Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, the company is slated to release refreshed versions of existing offerings, according to a report from Bloomberg. Apple is expected to

In this article BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Andriy Onufriyenko | Moment | Getty Images Bitcoin has rallied sharply this month — but not for reasons you might think. The world’s largest digital currency has risen more than 12% since the beginning of June. On Wednesday, its price topped $30,000 to hit its

In this article WBD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ezra Miller stars as Barry Allen in Warner Bros.’ “The Flash.” Warner Bros. Discovery “The Flash” is a flop. “Black Adam” was a bust. And does anyone remember “Shazam: Fury of the Gods”? DC Studios needs more than a hero, it needs a new strategy

Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, left; David Zaslav, CEO and president of Warner Bros. Discovery, center; and Bob Bakish, president and CEO of Paramount Global. Getty Images Companies and industries have ups and downs. The legacy media industry is in a valley. The first half of 2023 has been a colossal disappointment

Leah Ellis and Yet-Ming Chiang Photo courtesy The Engine While Leah Ellis was earning her doctorate at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, she was part of a team that did battery research for Tesla. After she graduated, her budding career took an unusual turn. “I could have gotten an easier job with my background in battery

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 23: XBOX CEO Phil Spencer arrives at federal court on June 23, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Top executives from Microsoft and Activision/Blizzard will be testifying during a five day hearing against the FTC to determine the fate of a $68.7B merger of the two companies. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty

Siemens Energy shares plunged 31% on Friday morning after the company scrapped its profit forecast. Wolfgang Rattay | Reuters Siemens Energy shares plunged 31% on Friday morning after the company scrapped its profit forecast and warned that costly problems at its wind turbine unit could last years. The company, born from the spinoff of the

Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly being used in financial services — but they come with some serious risks around discrimination. Sadik Demiroz | Photodisc | Getty Images AMSTERDAM — Artificial intelligence has a racial bias problem. From biometric identification systems that disproportionately misidentify the faces of Black people and minorities, to applications of voice recognition

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky speaks at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston on March 7, 2023. F. Carter Smith | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon’s cloud unit said Thursday that it’s allocating $100 million for a center to help companies use

SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on as he speaks during his visit at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on June 16, 2023. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP) (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images) Alain Jocard |

In this article INTC 2330-TW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger speaks during the Mobileye Global Inc. IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on Oct. 26, 2022. Mobileye Global Inc., the self-driving technology company owned by Intel Corp., priced one of the biggest US initial public offerings of the

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Tesla Model Y is seen on a Tesla car lot on May 31, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images A security researcher who uses the handle “@GreentheOnly” has discovered a secret setting in Tesla vehicles that can be enabled by the

Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and Matt Olsen, Uber’s chief trust and security officer and former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, during a panel discussion at CNBC ‘s @Work conference in San Francisco, Nov. 4, 2019. Arun Nevader | CNBC The U.S. Department of

Samio, 8, and his father, pour water on each other to cool off while playing in cooling mist near the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park as temperatures reach above 90 degrees on August 12, 2021 in the Queens Borough of New York City. New York City is experiencing a heat wave with a heat

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Six years ago, Amazon kicked off a sweepstakes-style contest in search of where to build a second headquarters. The competition drew bids from 238 states, provinces and cities vying to be the next anchor for the nation’s dominant online retailer and second-largest private employer. This

Singapore’s Marina Bay waterfront. Nicky Loh | Bloomberg | Getty Images As governments deliberate on whether artificial intelligence poses risks or dangers and whether it needs regulating, Singapore is taking more of a wait-and-see approach. “We are currently not looking at regulating AI,” Lee Wan Sie, director for trusted AI and data at Singapore’s Infocomm

In this article PLTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. On Sunday, the Ohio Department of Health reported a total of 298,096 cases in Ohio since the pandemic began, leading to 5,722 deaths and 22,265 hospitalizations. Photographer: Dustin Franz/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg

In this article AMZN Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Amazon’s head of worldwide consumer Jeff Wilke unveiled its latest delivery drone at the re:MARS conference in Las Vegas on June 5, 2019. Amazon Amazon doesn’t plan to host its re:MARS conference on cutting-edge technologies like robotics and space this year, the company confirmed on

In this article GM F TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Interest in electric vehicles is at an all-time high, with sales of new EVs up 55% in 2022 compared with the year prior. But there are still a lot of gas cars on the roads today, and it’s likely there will be for

In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France.  Chesnot | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk

Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty Images At midnight on Tuesday, the moderators of the Reddit community r/Gaming decided to go dark. Dac Croach, who goes by username Dacvak, and the subreddit’s other leaders hit the private button, initiating a 48-hour shutdown for the group’s more than 37 million members, along with anyone else who

In this article ETL-FR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT PARIS — Eutelsat is one of the biggest satellite companies in the world, but has faced declining revenue in its traditional businesses at a time when it is handling a huge acquisition and facing disruption from billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Eutelsat CEO Eva

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks with CNBC on May 16th, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Twitter suspended the accounts of Plainsite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prolific Tesla and Elon Musk critic, on Tuesday afternoon. Plainsite is an online database that makes state and federal court filings and other public records available