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Toyota to review its lobbying against climate and electric cars after pressure from investors

April 21, 2021
Toyota says that it is reevaluating its anti-climate lobbying practices as it promotes carbon neutrality goals after receiving pressure from investors. We have often discussed how Toyota has been a laggard when it comes to all-electric vehicles as the Japanese automaker has been more heavily investing in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. But the automaker has even gone further by using…
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MobileNews

Here’s everything Google TV does that Apple claims ‘smart TVs don’t’

April 21, 2021
During its “Spring Loaded” event this afternoon, Apple revealed an updated version of its Apple TV set-top box with features new and old, but most notably with a remote that’s finally an actual remote. During the event, though, Apple listed off a bunch of features that it claims “smart TVs just don’t do” or, rather, that they don’t have the power to do because they’re not running…
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SES gathers $139 million in funding round led by GM

April 21, 2021
SES recently announced that it has completed a Series D funding round of $139 million led by General Motors (GM). The company is known for its development and manufacturing of next-generation Lithium-Metal rechargeable batteries, particularly for electric vehicles. SES was…
DefenseNews

US Army bracing for budget hit next year

April 21, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is bracing for a possible large budget cut in fiscal 2022, a defense official told Defense News. The service is preparing contingencies should it face a “huge cut,” which means the Army would potentially have to put modernization and…
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Globally, renewables are growing – but so is demand for coal [Update]

April 21, 2021
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its annual “Global Energy Review” report, and while there is some good news about the adoption of renewables, there is also some rather alarming news about an anticipated emissions surge in 2021. Update, April 20, 3:55 p.m. EDT: The Washington Post has issued breaking news: President Biden this week will pledge to slash U.S. greenhouse gas…
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MobileNews

Google explains why WebView crashed Android apps last month and upcoming mitigations

April 21, 2021
Following Android users worldwide experiencing repeated app crashes last month, Google today released an explanation behind what went wrong and how future WebView problems will be remedied. This incident report was generated by the Workspace team given that Gmail and other productivity applications were impacted. Google pins the problem on a “bug within Chrome & WebView’s experiment…
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