Continuing the company’s celebration of Pride Month, the latest Google Doodle honors Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a Japanese American activist for civil rights and gay liberation.
Kiyoshi Kuromiya was born on May 9, 1943, in Wyoming, though his family’s home was in California. At the time, tensions were high between Japan and America, and the United States put those of Japanese descent into internment…
EU lawmakers set to finalize single charging port law as iPhone 15 rumored to replace Lightning with USB-C
June 3, 2022
European lawmakers are going to meet on June 7 as they look to finalize an agreement to enforce a single universal charging port law, which would see all mobile devices sold in the EU be required to offer USB-C ports for charging.
This idea has been circling in the minds of…
Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly with over 200 games now in the library. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service.
New for 6/3: Frogger and the Rumbling Ruins is the latest…
The USPS is already testing mail delivery by electric bike with these neat little US-built mail bikes
June 3, 2022
I recently wrote an opinion piece about how the United States Postal Service (USPS) could look to solve its gas-guzzler truck problem by following Europe’s example of delivering mail with smaller electric cargo bikes. As it turns out, the postal service has already been testing this out, and the little electric mail bikes look pretty snazzy too.
Not only are they designed to carry heavy cargo…
Elon Musk asks Tesla execs to ‘pause all hiring,’ cut 10% of staff, amid ‘super bad feeling about economy’
June 3, 2022
Elon Musk has reportedly asked Tesla executives to “pause all hiring worldwide” and cut about 10% of the staff due to what he called a “super bad feeling about the economy.”
Earlier this week, we reported on Elon Musk asking all Tesla employees to come back to the…
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It’s the beginning of Pride month. At VentureBeat, it’s also the beginning of a six-week-long deep dive into AI innovation, culminating in our fourth annual AI Innovation Awards to be presented at…
The Biden administration announced this week that it will cut the cost of building wind and solar on US public land by 50%.
In a statement, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced:
The new policy will reduce rents and fees substantially and enhance rate predictability for wind and solar developers. On average, the [Bureau of Land Management] expects rents and fees to decrease by over 50%…
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signed into law SB 193, an air-quality bill which among other things creates a $65 million grant program for electric school buses in the state.
A number of states and cities have committed to buying electric school buses, with thousands…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 2, 2022
June 3, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Elon Musk announced that Tesla might have a working prototype of Tesla Bot, also known as Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, by September 30 – the end of the third quarter of 2022.
Last month, Musk announced ‘Tesla AI Day #2’ with ‘many cool updates’ on August 19.
The original “Tesla AI Day” held last year was an event focused on the company’s self-driving program. The automaker…
