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Florida’s governor just locked ‘Florida into a dirty fossil fuel future’

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) just signed into law SB 1128/HB 919, “Preemption Over Restriction of Utility Services,” which was pushed through the legislature. It prevents local governments from deciding which energy path they want to take. In other words, Florida towns and cities are now unable to switch to 100% clean energy because they can’t ban fossil fuels. What’s in the new law? SB…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Quick Charge Podcast: June 23, 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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EA’s $1.4B Playdemic purchase strengthens its mobile strategy

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. Electronic Arts has acquired Golf Clash creator Playdemic from WarnerMedia for $1.4 billion in cash as EA shores up its sports game portfolio. That’s a lot of money for a development studio with just one game, but a free-to-play Golf Clash has been a big moneymaker, with 80 million downloads over the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Natural language processing tech startup Primer raises $110M

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. (Reuters) — Primer, a San Francisco-based startup that offers a natural language processing platform used by U.S. national security agencies and others, on Tuesday said it raised $110 million in its latest funding round. The company also announced a partnership with data analytics firm Palantir…
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MobileNews

Kuo: New iPhone SE with 5G and new processor still on track for first half of 2022

A new report from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today reiterated expectations for the next-gen iPhone SE. Kuo believes the two big upgrades will be 5G and an upgraded processor, with the new entry-level iPhone coming in 1H 2022. Kuo first predicted the new iPhone SE would arrive in 2022 back in March. The same expectation was reiterated today for that to arrive in the first half of next…
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