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With $438,000 in pre-orders, Raine One electric scooter founders bail, won’t issue refunds

June 5, 2021
The Raine One electric scooter was supposed to be a giant leap forward for the industry, promising higher performance and a sexier design at a lower price. But after collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in pre-orders on Kickstarter and running over a year past the original delivery date, the Enova design team behind the Raine One scooter announced today that they would be stopping…
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MobileNews

Google curiously creates separate Assistant settings menu for ‘Photos’

June 5, 2021
The Google Assistant preferences page allows you to sign in and select what services to use on Smart Displays and speakers. A small tweak today sees Google Assistant separate settings for “Photos” from “Videos.” Since Assistant’s launch, Google has offered a unified “Videos & Photos” menu that first lists streaming services. The bottom of this page is home to a toggle for…
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DefenseNews

China will only benefit from the US Navy’s shipbuilding budget

June 5, 2021
The proposed U.S. Navy shipbuilding budget for fiscal 2021 contains only good news for China. The threat of a larger U.S. Navy has disappeared. Reductions of cruisers eliminate long-range offensive and anti-submarine warfare ships. Frigates and Marine expeditionary ship programs are delayed. Force assessments form the plan for the Navy. An assessment conducted in the 1970s and implemented in…
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DefenseNews

Dynetics unveils Enduring Shield, its solution for the US Army to counter cruise missiles

June 5, 2021
WASHINGTON — Leidos-owned Dynetics has been tight-lipped about the product it offered to the U.S. Army and demonstrated in a live-fire event for the service’s enduring indirect fires protection capability, designed to defend against a variety of airborne threats. While it’s been well-known that one team consisted of Rafael and Raytheon, offering up the Iron Dome launcher and Tamir…
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