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Electric vehicle startups hit speed bumps after raising tons of cash

Electric vehicle startups have raised an absurd amount of money in the last year by merging with special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs. That money — billions of dollars, collectively — was supposed to be enough to help each of them start fighting for space in a market dominated by Tesla. But many of these… Read more

EV startup Canoo under SEC investigation

The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into newly public electric vehicle startup Canoo, CEO Tony Aquila shared on a conference call on Monday. “We recently received a notice from the SEC that they are conducting an investigation,” Aquila said, who added that the agency “characterized the process as a fact-finding inquiry.” Aquila… Read more

Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti said to be announced May 31st

João Silva 2 days ago Featured Announcement, Graphics Narrowing down the RTX 3080 Ti launch window has been a pain for insiders, with the date shifting every couple of weeks. The latest reports indicate that the RTX 3080 Ti will now be announced on the 31st of May, followed by a retail launch in June…. Read more

Canoo reveals a bubbly electric pickup truck

No, that’s not a Duplo toy — what you see above (and in the renders below) is the design for a pickup truck from California electric vehicle startup Canoo. Revealed in a leak on Reddit on Wednesday, and then subsequently confirmed to Reuters, the head-turning EV truck is not due out until 2023. By that… Read more

No internet connection via balloons: Google parent Alphabet closes Loon

The Google parent company Alphabet closes the company Loon, which has worked to connect regions with insufficient coverage to the Internet via stratospheric balloons. Originally it was a project from Google’s research department X, in the summer 2018 it was transferred to its own company. As Loon managing director Alastair Westgarth now explains, it was… Read more

NIO ET7, the Chinese sedan that challenges Tesla Model S with an autonomy of over 1000 km

The world of electric cars continues to expand: Chinese NIO announced huge ET7 sedan, coming early 2022. The car, with a battery pack of 150 kWh arriving at the end of the same year, should have an autonomy of over 1000 kilometers. by Manolo De Agostini published 10 January 2021 , at 13: 01 in… Read more

Fastweb at full speed: with NeXXt Casa you can surf at 1 Gbps in 50 municipalities thanks to UltraFWA

Fastweb announced the new UltraFWA network in 50 common to bring connectivity up to 1 Gbps in small and medium-sized cities. In addition, the speed is doubled from 1 to 2.5 Gb / s for 4 million households on the FTTH network and the opening of the 5G network for all customers at no additional… Read more