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GM will spend $2.2 billion to build electric and autonomous vehicles at Detroit plant
Last week, GM-subsidiary Cruise unveiled the Origin, its first self-driving car without a steering wheel or pedals. At the time, the company’s CEO Dan Ammann promised to reveal production details in the days to come. Well, today’s the day, with GM announcing plans to spend $2.2 billion to retrofit its…
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Hundreds of Amazon employees put jobs at risk by criticizing firm’s climate change policy
Hundreds of Amazon workers are speaking out against their employer’s record on climate change, risking being fired to defy a company-wide ban against such public criticism. The group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice published comments from 357 workers on Sunday, many of which highlight what workers see as Amazon’s hypocrisy.…
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Teller raises $4M to take on Plaid in the U.S. by providing API access to bank accounts
“They’re idiots, they’re really naive,” is how Stevie Graham, the co-founder of fintech Teller, once described Open Banking Limited, the body charged with delivering open banking in the U.K. His view back in 2017 — which now looks somewhat prophetic — was that open banking wouldn’t be the competition driver…
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N26 reaches 5 million customers including 250,000 in the US
Challenger bank N26 has reached 5 million customers. In 2019 alone, N26 managed to add over 2.5 million customers. And the company’s growth rate seems to be accelerating as N26 reached 3.5 million customers in June 2019. That represents an addition of 1 million customers during the first half of…
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The Best Dyson Vacuums (2020): V11, V7 Trigger, and More
It’s easy to get sucked into the brand’s vast catalog. Here are the ones that floored us. Source
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Tinder Swipes Right on AI to Help Stop Harassment
The dating app says its new machine learning tool can help flag potentially offensive messages and encourage more users to report inappropriate behavior. Source
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