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Tesla and Elon Musk are targets of new TikTok smear campaign paid by mysterious company

October 12, 2020
Tesla and Elon Musk are targeted in a new paid TikTok smear campaign over claims that they participated in “employee health negligence and union busting.” MSCHF, a somewhat mysterious company that has done strange product drops and stunt marketing campaigns, is behind the new project. It was described as a “collective” in a New York Times profile earlier this year: It rarely even…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Electric cars will triple market share in Europe in 2020

October 12, 2020
Electric cars will triple their market share in Europe this year as a result of EU car emissions targets, according to a new report released today from Transport & Environment (T&E), a European umbrella group for non-governmental organizations that work in transport and the environment, and promote sustainable transport in Europe. T&E analyzed sales and carmakers’ compliance…
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DefenseNews

US Army hones in on solution for new mid-range missile pursuit

October 12, 2020
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army’s new pursuit for a mid-range missile will be finalized by the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office by the end of the year, the office’s director told Defense News in an interview ahead of the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference. The service has set a goal to field the chosen missile in less than three years — by the fourth…
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MobileNews

iPhone 12 Diary: One rumor may have changed my plans

October 12, 2020
I made an early start on an iPhone 12 Diary back in July because reports as of then were leading me to suspect that I was going to choose what we now believe will be called the iPhone 12 mini. But there is one rumor which might change my plans very significantly. The appeal…
MobileNews

What to expect from Apple’s iPhone 12 event

October 12, 2020
Apple’s next fall event kicks off tomorrow at 1PM ET, when the company is widely expected to reveal its new iPhone 12 lineup of smartphones. Rumors have given us a pretty good picture of what we can expect to see with these new phones, and Apple’s official “Hi, Speed” tagline for the event suggests that one of the iPhone 12’s main features could be support for fast 5G cellular…
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