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Elon Musk’s Boring Company raises $675 million to accelerate its tunnel-digging under cities

April 21, 2022
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company announced that it has raised $675 million in a new funding round valuing the company at $5.675 billion. It plans to use the funds to build many new boring machines and dig tunnels under more cities. The Boring Company (TBC) wrote in a press release: Our Series C funding round of $675 million, led by Vy Capital and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Valor…
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GAC Aion joins the battery swap game in China, opens first station in Guangzhou

April 21, 2022
Chinese NEV automaker GAC Aion is expanding its repertoire of EV technologies to include battery swap stations. The company announced its first station has opened in Guangzhou and can replace an EV battery in under 2.5 minutes. GAC Aion is the latest company to implement battery swap stations in China. Aion is an all-electric marque of Guangzhou Automobile Corporation (GAC) Group. Currently, the…
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Frame.io Brings ‘Camera to Cloud’ Functionality to Just About Anyone

April 21, 2022
Adobe is leveraging its acquisition of Frame.io to expand cloud collaboration access — including the ability to send content directly from a camera to editors — to just about anyone, even mobile users through a partnership with FiLMiC Pro. Earlier this month, Adobe integrated Frame.io directly into Premiere Pro, but the plans for cloud collaboration clearly extend well beyond that. Recent…
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Sony Delays 16-35mm f/4 Power Zoom Lens Until the Summer

April 21, 2022
Sony doesn’t appear to be out of the woods when it comes to supply chain struggles as the company has delayed the 16-35mm f/4 PZ G Series power zoom lens from its planned April release until an unspecified time later this summer. The lens, which was announced on…
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Influencer Intentionally Crashed His Plane on Camera, FAA Rules

April 21, 2022
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has revoked the pilot license of influencer Trevor Jacob after it found that he intentionally crashed his plane for the purpose of making a viral YouTube video. Last December, Jacob published a video where he shows himself jumping out of his airplane mid-flight. Jacob maintains that he did so after the plane malfunctioned and the resulting video went…
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