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Air-con and local weather change: startups are attempting to assist
This June was the hottest in American history. The 116-degree heat melted power cables in Portland, Oregon, breaking previous temperature records. Seattle recorded an all-time high of 108 degrees, as did the Canadian province of British Columbia with a whopping 121 degrees. As the world warms, more and more people are installing air conditioners. The…
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China sanctions Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
China said Friday it has sanctioned seven people, including former Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, in response to U.S. penalties imposed on Chinese officials over Beijing’s clampdown on democracy in Hong Kong. The reciprocal sanctions were imposed under China’s new Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, which was passed in June. The sanctions are a response to the…
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Dow rises 200 factors, S&P 500 climbs to report as shares head for earnings week
Traders and finance professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Drew Angerer | Getty Images US stocks rose on Friday, with the S&P 500 hitting a new high as all major averages cleared worries about economic growth earlier in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 201 points, or 0.5%,…
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Chinese language prosecutor, ex-NYPD police officer charged with stalking US residents
A Chinese soldier stands in front of the Tiananmen Gate in front of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Getty Images A Chinese prosecutor, a former New York Police Department detective sergeant and seven others were charged Thursday with a brazen campaign to persecute and harass US citizens to persuade one of them to return to…
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A number of main web sites briefly go down in widespread web outage
Several major websites briefly went down on Thursday in a widespread outage linked to content distribution network Akamai. By about 12:50 p.m. Eastern Time, Akamai said it fixed the issue and the service seemed to be back to normal. Akamai, a CDN, which helps data move around the internet, said on its website earlier on…
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Tesla triggered two-thirds of my private, skilled ache
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla Inc., comes to the Axel Springer Awards ceremony in Berlin on December 1, 2020. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, said Wednesday that his electric vehicle and solar business could help bitcoin miners move to renewable energy, but is currently limited…
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Bitcoin (BTC) worth climbs again above $ 30,000
A bitcoin sign with a graphic in the background. STR | NurPhoto via Getty Images Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies rebounded on Wednesday after a brutal sell-off, with the world’s largest digital coin climbing above $ 30,000 again. Bitcoin’s price rose 6.2% in the past 24 hours to $ 31,676 at 10:40 a.m. ET, according to…
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Elon Musk says Tesla will open Supercharger to different automobiles in 2021
Tesla Supercharger Station CNBC | Andrew Evers Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that the company’s network of DC fast charging stations for its electric vehicles, also known as the Tesla Supercharger Network, will be open to other types of electric vehicles in 2021. In response to a Tesla fan on Twitter, where Musk has…
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Dow futures rebound by 200 factors after common suffers worst day in Eight months
Stock futures rebounded slightly on Tuesday after concerns about the spread of Covid-19’s delta variant caused investors to dump equities in the prior session. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were up 148 points, or 0.43%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures each gained 0.39%. Wall Street suffered a sharp sell-off Monday as…
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IBM earnings Q2 2021
Wired senior staff writer Cade Metz and Arvind Krishna, IBM CEO and then senior vice president and director at IBM Research, speak onstage at the Wired Business Conference in New York on June 16, 2016. Brian Ach | Wired | Getty Images IBM shares rose as much as 4% in extended trading on Monday after…
