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Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is planning to roll out a new way to display news links without any headline or description. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Now with the Netherlands factory online, Enough is ramping up to produce over a tonne of Abunda every hour and around 10,000 metric tonnes per year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cruise told by regulators to ‘immediately’ reduce robotaxi fleet 50% following crash Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tumblr is officially rolling out a new look for its web browser after testing it with select users over the past month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Consumer interest in Cruise and Waymo’s competing robotaxi services surged following a vote last week by the California Public Utilities Commission that allowed the two companies to expand and charge for their driverless car operations in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York City becomes the latest government to issue new rules banning TikTok, a measure meant to ward off potential security threats from China. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vietnamese EV maker VinFast’s debut Tuesday on the Nasdaq public exchange was nothing short of remarkable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Electrify America, the EV charging company created by Volkswagen in the aftermath of its diesel emissions scandal, said on Tuesday that a new, 75 megawatt solar farm in Southern California is now up and running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

X- (previously Twitter) and Threads-rival Bluesky has started allowing users to self-tag their posts so they can be automatically filtered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The relationship between American tech giants and the Chinese government has never been an easy one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rocket Lab will launch two small satellites for NASA that could help scientists better understand how a warming climate will affect the massive ice shelves at the Earth’s poles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hackers could have hijacked the user accounts of a popular transportation app and used them to get free rides and access people’s personal information, according to a security researcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mastercard has agreed to purchase a minority stake in the fintech division of MTN Group, Africa’s largest cellphone provider, which it values at $5.2 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Electric aircraft rivals Wisk and Archer Aviation have settled their trade secret legal dispute more than two years after the lawsuit was originally filed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a win for the autonomous vehicle industry, California regulators have given the green light to Cruise and Waymo to offer commercial robotaxi services across San Francisco 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’ve seen the rise of no-code and low-code platforms being applied to any number of applications and use-cases. What would happen if this thinking was applied to metaverse-style virtual worlds? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hackers with apparent links to the Belarusian government have been targeting foreign diplomats in the country for nearly 10 years, according to security researchers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Work on Duolingo’s next big app, Duolingo Music, is well on its way, according to new findings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When news broke last month that Astranis’ first commercial satellite in orbit malfunctioned, the company made an unexpected announcement: it had a backup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Paramount said that it added 700,000 subscribers to Paramount+ in Q2 2023 after the company launched a subscription tier with Showtime integration in June. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It’s an oft-told story: the boom of space startups today can be traced to dramatically lowered cost in launch and satellite manufacturing over the past ten years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

India’s lower house of parliament greenlit the revised data privacy legislation presented the previous week, even as the bill has received criticism, with many believing that it grants significant discretionary authority to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There was a bit of a hubbub in February as it emerged that OpenAI had seemingly purchased AI.com in order to redirect it to the ChatGPT web interface.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

GoStudent — the late-stage tutor marketplace that has raised $686.3 million so far – has now raised another $95 million in what it calls as strategic fundraise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices