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Report: New Google Pay app seeing slower-than-expected growth, unclear if Flex impacted

August 20, 2021
Back in March, a longtime Google vice president in charge of Google Pay and Next Billion Users left the company. That team was merged with Google’s shopping/commerce efforts, but a new report today points to the new Google Pay seeing slow growth and progress. According to Business Insider, the departure of Caesar Sengupta in April was followed by a dozen vice presidents, directors, and…
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Google Health loses its first leader, projects set to continue

August 20, 2021
In late 2018, Google hired Dr. David Feinberg to “organize [the company’s] health efforts” into one division tasked with “help[ing] everybody live their healthiest life.” The Google Health leader is now leaving the company after two years. According to the Wall…
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SpaceX’s lunar lander contract on hold again pending Blue Origin’s lawsuit

August 20, 2021
SpaceX’s $3 billion contract to build a lunar lander for NASA was put on hold for a second time on Thursday after Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sued over the award, according to court filings. NASA voluntarily agreed to temporarily suspend the contract until November 1st while the US Court of Federal Claims, where Blue Origin filed suit last week, adjudicates the case. Blue Origin had asked the…
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Quick Charge Podcast: August 19, 2021

August 20, 2021
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…
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Tesla is actually going to make a ‘Tesla Bot’ humanoid robot for general purpose use

August 20, 2021
Tesla announced that it is actually going to make a humanoid robot, called Tesla Bot, and it will be able to grab your groceries for you and perform other menial tasks. Yes, it’s not a joke. At its ‘AI Day‘ today, Tesla released many details about its progress to develop AI technology to power its self-driving system. But as we expected, there was a “one more thing” moment, and it was…
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Tesla will enter the Japanese energy market with a 6 MWh Megapack project

August 20, 2021
Tesla is reportedly about to enter the Japanese energy market with its energy storage products, starting with a 6 MWh Megapack project. Since its inception, Tesla has been intricately linked to Japan. Until Panasonic, a Japanese company, no other battery supplier wanted to sell li-ion to Tesla for use in electric cars. For years and until it started production in China, Tesla exclusively used…
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