Month: April 2020
US wireless carriers are delivering phone chargers to hospitals for COVID-19 patients
AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have all partnered with iHeartMedia to deliver thousands of phone chargers to hospitals so that COVID-19 patients can charge their phones. The companies will donate nearly 40,000 phone chargers, according to T-Mobile’s press release. T-Mobile says it has already donated 20,000 chargers to hospitals in Seattle,…
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Tesla’s ‘full self-driving’ feature is coming in subscription form
During the Q1 2020 earnings call on Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company’s “Full Self-Driving” system will become available as a monthly subscription later this year.Tesla has been installing the necessary hardware for its autono… Source
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Elon Musk says shelter-in-place orders during COVID-19 are ‘fascist’
Elon Musk called the shelter-in-place orders in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout the US “fascist” actions that are stripping people of their freedom on a Tesla earnings call on Wednesday. Musk’s comments come after a torrent of criticism for remarks he made late Tuesday night on Twitter, in…
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Lime reportedly plans to lay off as many as 100 employees
Lime is planning to lay off between 80 and 100 of its workers, according to Axios, an indication the company has run into financial troubles during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Lime did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Bloomberg also reported that layoffs at Lime could…
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Tesla to reduce price of standard range Model 3 in China
Tesla said it will reduce the price of its standard range Model 3 vehicle in China to meet the government’s new eligibility requirements for subsidies. This marks the second time this year that the automaker has reduced the price. Several months ago, the base version of China-made Model 3 was…
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Qualcomm expects phone shipments to drop by 30 percent next quarter due to COVID-19
Qualcomm expects smartphone shipments to fall 30 percent in the comings months due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company said today, cutting its previous projections for the next quarter. That’s in addition to the 21 percent reduction in demand for phones that the company noted in the past quarter, which…
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