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Environmental groups: JPMorgan Chase emissions targets are ‘fig leaf for fossil expansion’

May 19, 2021
At today’s JPMorgan Chase annual general meeting (AGM), CEO Jamie Dimon faced questions from a number of climate justice activists on Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline and Indigenous sovereignty, the East Africa Crude Oil pipeline (which many banks have refused to finance), the Adani Carmichael coal mine in Australia (which no insurer will cover), deforestation, and the bank’s oil…
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Quick Charge Podcast: May 18, 2021

May 19, 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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Kia’s first dedicated EV, the 2022 EV6, launches in Times Square

May 19, 2021
I guess “EV1” was taken? Seriously, though, folks, today a big day for Kia, with the unveiling of the new Kia EV6 crossover, the brand’s first-ever dedicated battery electric vehicle. Unlike Kia’s previous EVs that shared fossil-fuel-powered versions, the new EV6 was designed from day one as a purely battery-electric vehicle, allowing the company to shift its innovation into high…
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Zeiss' $6K Android-powered ZX1 camera gets face-detection AF, Lightroom update and more in 1.4 firmware update

May 19, 2021
Zeiss has announced a substantial firmware update for its $6,000 Android-powered ZX1 camera that adds face-detection autofocus, an updated version of Adobe Lightroom and more. The best part is, firmware version 1.4 for the ZX1 is available to download directly to the camera over Wi-Fi. The first new feature Zeiss notes is face-detection autofocus, which works in both Single and Continuous AF…
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Google adds AI-powered app personalization, other improvements to Firebase

May 19, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. This week during Google I/O 2021, Google’s developer conference, the company announced a number of updates to Firebase, its mobile and web app development platform. Google says that the new tools it’s introducing can help developers enhance app experiences, maintain and scale apps, and add novel functionality to…
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