SpaceX Is Now Taking Requests for Starlink Beta Testers
• https://futurism.com by VICTOR TANGERMANNHere's where you can sign up.
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Google employees demand the company end police contracts
• https://www.theverge.com by Zoe SchifferOver 1,650 workers have signed an open letter to Sundar Pichai
Nikola Motors Factory In Coolidge, Arizona To Break Ground On July 23
• Inside EV'sThe Nikola World 2020 will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, from December 3 to December 4.
Tesla Considers Austin, Texas For New Gigafactory
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tsvetana ParaskovaTesla is considering buying a property near Austin, Texas, for the possible construction of a new electric vehicle manufacturing plant, an application to the Texas Comptroller's Office shows.
SpaceX Racing to Qualify for $16 Billion to Provide Low Latency Rural Internet
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian WangMarc Handley has a technical analysis of how ground stations and idle user terminals can be used to relay Starlink and can eventually halve the latency across the United States. However, even the minimum coverage configuration and a few hundred groun
'Pro-liberty' Texas Governor Greg Abbott Supports Governments Ordering Businesses...
• http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org, by adam dick'Pro-liberty' Texas Governor Greg Abbott Supports Governments Ordering Businesses to Order People to Wear Masks
Tear Down this Plexiglass!
• http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org, by anthony gillPlexiglass. They put up plexiglass between us. This may not turn out well.
You're Getting Played By The Corporate Billionaire Class And You Don't Even Know!
• https://www.youtube.com, WeAreChangeYou're Getting Played By The Corporate Billionaire Class And You Don't Even Know!
In shift, Florida Keys now requiring face masks until June 2021
• https://www.orlandosentinel.com, By RICHARD TRIBOUVisitors to the Florida Keys will need to bring along face masks or face a $500 civil fine.
Trump Says 'Decoupling' From China on the Table
• https://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzTop Trump adviser warned him this was not reasonable just a day before
Grizzl-E Launches EV Charging Station Solution Designed For Profits
• https://insideevs.com, SponsoredYou simply couldn't earn money owning and operating an EV charging station until now.
US Corporations Pledge $1.7 Billion to Black Lives Matter
• https://needtoknow.news by ReutersCorporations have pledged more than $1.7-billion supposedly for racial and social-justice causes amid worldwide protests over the death of George Floyd. In some cases, the companies have not yet disclosed how the money will be spent.
Limitations of Current AI and the Data Problem
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian WangThe Economist magazine recent Technology Quarterly had a set of articles that described the limitations and disappointment that big businesses are having with current AI.
Wirecard Shares Plunge 60% As Auditors 'Unable To Verify' $2 Billion In Cash On Its Books
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenOnce again, it looks like the bears and the skeptics were right all along.
OP-ED: Is Nikola The Next Tesla? Is Mainstream Fuel-Cell Tech Vaporware?
• Inside EV'sNikola reaches market cap in days that took Tesla 10 years to reach.
Members of Congress took small-business loans -- and the full extent is unknown
• https://www.politico.comSome GOP lawmakers who benefited from the Paycheck Protection Program also opposed legislation requiring lending transparency.
Quaker Foods to Rename 'Aunt Jemima,' Scrub Logo 'to Make Progress Toward Racial Equalit
• breitbart.com, Penny Starr and Ezra DulisQuaker Foods, the company behind the "Aunt Jemima" brand of syrup and other breakfast foods, says it will rename this line of products and discontinue its label's image of a black woman "to make progress toward racial equality."
Visualizing How People And Companies Feel About Working Remotely
• Zero Hedge - Tyler DurdenThough the number of people working partially or fully remote has been on the rise for years now, the COVID-19 pandemic may have pressed the fast-forward button on this trend.
Nikola CEO Announces $60,000 Badger Electric Pickup Truck Giveaway
• https://insideevs.com, Steven LovedayCEO Trevor Milton says he'll draw a winner from those who place a $5,000 reservation.
College Towns Fear Covid Will Leave Them as Ghost Towns
• https://www.msn.com, Janet Lorin and Reade PickertColleges bring a certain indefinable something to college towns. They also bring at least two definable somethings: students and sports. Without those, many college towns would become ghost towns.
Amazon's Bezos willing to testify in House antitrust probe
• https://www.politico.com, By CRISTIANO LIMAHouse Judiciary Committee leaders in May threatened to subpoena the CEO's testimony on Amazon's treatment of third-party vendors.
Bankrupt Hertz Warns Buyers They'll Need A Miracle To Avoid Total Loss-
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenAs Bonds Value Equity At Negative $2 Billion
How To Make Money Owning An EV Charging Station
• Inside EV'sThe math has never made sense, until now.
Where Used Car Prices Are Crashing The Most In The US
• Zero Hedge - Tyler DurdenSince the coronavirus pandemic began grinding the global economy to a halt, we have been keeping a close eye on the auto market. The auto market was mired in recession prior to the virus and therefore has been disproportionately affected by the slowd
While The Industry Crumbles, One Airline Is Making Money Hand Over Fist Shipping Pigs To China
• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenWhile most of the aviation industry has been decimated as a result of the pandemic and its ensuing stay-at-home orders, one airliner is making money hand over fist in an unexpected way: shipping pigs to China in 747 Jumbo Jets.
Truck Drivers Reject Delivery To Cities With Defunded Or Disbanded Police
• https://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler DurdenA popular trucking app called "CDLLife" polled its users Thursday and found an overwhelming number of drivers will not "pickup/deliver to cities with defunded/disbanded police departments."
Amazon Shuts Down Police Use Of Facial Recognition For One Year
• BY: ARI LEVY AND LAUREN HIRSCHAmazon said on Wednesday that it's putting in place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition.
SpaceX launches 58 Starlink satellites and 3 Planet SkySats, nails rocket landing
• https://www.space.com, By Amy ThompsonThe Starlink constellation is growing fast.
As Businesses Flee The Violence, Will Major U.S. Cities Be Transformed Into Economic Wastelands?
• https://thefallingdarkness.com, TFDUrban communities all over the U.S. are now facing the possibility of a mass exodus of businesses, and many local leaders are freaking out because they realize what such a mass exodus will mean for their cities.
Starbucks is about to look a lot different--and COVID-19 is only part of the reason why
• https://www.fastcompany.com, BY MARK WILSONStarbucks had store transformation plans in place for 2025. Those just got moved up.
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