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| USPS signed contract for new EV postal delivery trucks |
2/25/2021 |
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Oshkosh Defense, a division of Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Corp., will assemble 50,000 to 165,000 of the new Next Generation Delivery Vehicles at its existing U.S. manufacturing facilities. It will get an initial $482 million toward retooling and building out its factory.
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| Huawei unveiled a folding smartphone with an 8-inch wide screen |
2/24/2021 |
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China’s ruling Communist Party has spent billions of dollars trying to build its own chip industry. But domestic producers lack the technology to manufacture chips for Huawei’s most advanced products. “The bigger question is more about how long their current stockpile of components will last them,”
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| Biden to borrow some of Trump's strategy in reshoring and trade negotiations |
2/24/2021 |
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We may see a continuation of some of the policies from the Trump administration, meaning policies that prioritize American business and manufacturing. Biden may also focus on opening China’s state-dominated economy, rather than just on narrowing China’s multibillion-dollar trade surplus with the U.S., which was where the Trump administration predominantly put its' focus.
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| New car prices jumped 6% |
2/24/2021 |
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The price of an average new vehicle jumped 6% between January of last year, before the coronavirus erupted in the United States, and December to a record $40,578, according to data from Edmunds.com.
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| Walmart to invest $14 billion into e-cmmerce |
2/23/2021 |
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Walmart said the investment will be primarily in the US and focus on improving automation utilization and building supply chain capacity to stay ahead of demand and increase productivity.
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| Frigid weather is to blame for rapid rising fuel prices |
2/22/2021 |
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A deep freeze in the Gulf state region and beyond that killed dozens of people, left millions without power and jeopardized drinking water systems also forced as many as 11 refineries offline, according to travel app GasBuddy.
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| Water leak at Fukushima nuclear plant complicates decommission process |
2/22/2021 |
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drop in water levels in the Unit 1 and 3 reactors indicates that the existing damage to their primary containment chambers was worsened by Saturday's magnitude 7.3 quake, allowing more water to leak. The leaked water is believed to have remained inside the reactor buildings and there is no sign of any outside impact.
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| Hyundai/KIA suffered network lost for days |
2/22/2021 |
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In a statement on Thursday, Kia cited “online speculation” that it was hit by ransomware, which scrambles data until a victim pays to have it decoded. “At this time, and based on the best and most current information, we can confirm that we have no evidence that Kia or any Kia data is subject to a ransomware attack,” the company said.
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| New Air Force One to be built with laser and missile defense features |
2/22/2021 |
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A 224’ wingspan includes carbon fiber wing tips angled at 37.5 degrees to produce quicker takeoffs and landings, as well as for accommodating shorter landing strips. The four GE engines will provide 17 percent more power in hitting Mach 1, making Air Force One the fastest passenger jet on the planet.
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| Lordstown Motors to break traditional auto sales protocol |
2/19/2021 |
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Lordstown Motors Corp. hopes state lawmakers will approve the change, which would allow it to get around a rule requiring vehicle sales go through auto dealerships. Proposed legislation is expected to be introduced at the Statehouse within the next few weeks.
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| NASA rover landing is the most challenged ever |
2/19/2021 |
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The rover named Perseverance is headed Thursday for a compact 5-mile-by-4-mile (8-kilometer-by-6.4-kilometer) patch on the edge of an ancient river delta. It's filled with cliffs, pits, sand dunes and fields of rocks, any of which could doom the $3 billion mission.
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| Epic Games, a game maker, filed antitrust complaint against Apple |
2/18/2021 |
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Epic Games is locked in a battle with Apple over the app store, which takes a 30% cut from all in-app purchases. When Epic tried last year to bypass the platform with a direct payment system, Apple dropped the Fortnite app from its app store. In return, Epic filed legal challenges in the U.S., Australia and Britain.
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| Jetpack man flying around LAX might be a mannequin |
2/18/2021 |
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The Black Vault, a website that houses declassified government documents, suggests that the media-dubbed “jetpack man” might not be a man at all. Instead, we might be seeing a life size mannequin that’s being jetted to the heavens by a drone.
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| Robot has a place in doing police work |
2/17/2021 |
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WBRC-TV reports that a National Science Foundation grant is funding the work to build robots with audio and video equipment. The robots could go into places where it may be too dangerous for police and relay information back to them.
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| Texas freeze cause blackouts in Mexico |
2/17/2021 |
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Mexico’s government-owned utility, the Federal Electricity Commission, said its operations were left short as the winter storm in Texas froze natural gas pipelines. It said some private power plants also began shutting down Sunday night. Private plants supply about 80% of power in northern Mexico.
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