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| Napa Valley wine country on fire |
9/29/2020 |
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The latest inferno began with the Glass Fire at 3:50 a.m. Sunday and two subsequent fires merged with it, burning 17 square miles (44 square kilometers) as of early Monday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
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| Huawei CFO extradition case back in Canadian court |
9/29/2020 |
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Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and the company’s chief financial officer, at Vancouver’s airport in late 2018. The U.S. wants her extradited to face fraud charges. Her arrest infuriated Beijing, which sees her case as a political move designed to prevent China’s rise.
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| Amazon Prime Day this year will be Oct. 13 to Oct. 14 |
9/29/2020 |
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The company is holding its annual Prime Day over two days in October this year, after the pandemic forced it to postpone the sales event from July. It's the first time Prime Day is being held in the fall, and Amazon is positioning it as a way to get people to start their holiday shopping.
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| Walmart to deliver virus test kits by flying drones |
9/29/2020 |
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On Sept. 22, the company further expanded its experimental drone fleet to deliver at-home COVID-19 test kits. Walmart partnered with DroneUp and Quest Diagnostics to launch trials in North Las Vegas and Cheektowaga, N.Y.
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| Big ticket items order up only 0.4% |
9/28/2020 |
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It was the fourth consecutive monthly increase, but the most recent uptick was far weaker than the 11.7% surge in July, the Commerce Department reported Friday.
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| Amazon flying home camera disclosed |
9/28/2020 |
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The company unveiled a flying home camera that you can ask to fly to check the stove while you're out, or to see if you left the windows open. Amazon says the drone will automatically take flight if there's movement in the house to show you what's going on.
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| China to host first major trade show since the pandemic |
9/25/2020 |
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The auto show, the first major in-person sales event for any industry since the coronavirus pandemic began, opens Saturday in a sign the ruling Communist Party is confident China has contained the disease. Still, automakers face intensive anti-virus controls including quarantines for visitors from abroad and curbs on crowd sizes.
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| China to go carbon-neutral by 2060 |
9/24/2020 |
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Xi's announcement during a speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly is a significant step for the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Calling for a “green revolution,” Xi said the coronavirus pandemic had shown the need to preserve the environment.
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| Spin Memory teams with ARM and Applied Materials to make military accepted MRAM |
9/23/2020 |
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The eight-year-old company recently closed its series-D round of funding from existing financial and strategic partners that include ARM and Applied Materials, according to Spin CEO Tom Sparkman. The company has built in the United States what is probably the world’s only dedicated MRAM fab and aims to tap trade-war subsidies from the US government in the near future.
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| Source of hospital hack identified to Russia |
9/23/2020 |
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The attack caused the failure of IT systems at Duesseldorf's University Hospital two weeks ago. A woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.
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| China’s “unreliable entity” list is dangerous |
9/22/2020 |
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Companies that end up on the list could be banned from importing or exporting from China, and may be barred from investing in the country. Other measures include imposing fines, entry restrictions on employees into China and revoking their work or residence permits.
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| U.S. Customs seized $400k worth of fake Apple earbuds |
9/22/2020 |
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According to s statement Customs provided to WIRED, “a CBP Import Specialist determined that the subject earbuds appeared to violate Apple’s configuration trademark. CBP’s seizure of the earbuds in question is unrelated to the images or language on the box.
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| Nikola found lying on capability of hydrogen-powered truck |
9/22/2020 |
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The company said late Sunday that Trevor Milton resigned and the departing executive chairman said he would defend himself against accusations that the company made false claims about its vehicles, allegations Nikola rejects.
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