Ford F-150 hybrid: The 2021 rumble before the Lightning EV strikes
Full-size pickup trucks are the meat of the U.S. automotive business; it’s a red-hot category with the Ford F-150 leading the pack in sales and the Chevrolet Silverado and Ram pickups fast followers.
But the air is thin at the top. What’s often lost in truck coverage is how fiercely aut
Regulations can define the best places to build and invest
Market timing? — ?how relevant an idea is to the current state and direction of a market? — ?is the most important factor in determining the durability of that idea.
Several inputs inform market timing: The skew of consumer preferences in response to a pandemic. The price of goods for a
Medium revamps its Partner Program, launching new eligibility requirements and referral bonuses
Amid a year of editorial pivots and employee exits, Medium announced today that it will make significant changes to its Medium Partner Program, which allows writers on the platform to monetize their content.
Founded in 2012, Medium launched its Partner Program in 2017. Since then, the platform has
FEMA just tested the US national emergency alert system
"attachment_1865300" aria-describedby="" style="width: 1500px">FEMA will test its national emergency alert system later this week. Image Credits: Getty Images
Did you hear it? FEMA just ran its first nationwide test of the U.S. emergency alert system since the pandemic.
The Federal Emergency Managem
Space manufacturing startup Varda inks deal with Rocket Lab for three spacecraft
Orbital manufacturing startup Varda Space Industries is moving fast. Only a few weeks after announcing a $42 million Series A, Varda has signed a deal with launch company Rocket Lab for three Photon spacecraft to support the startup's initial missions.
The first spacecraft will be delivered in
Twitter redesigns website and app with new font, less clutter and high-contrast features
Twitter today is introducing a revamped version of its website, which the company says will make the site more accessible, less cluttered and easier to use. Among the changes, which are also rolling out to iOS and Android, is the implementation of Twitter’s new font, “Chirp,” and
The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space
The technology industry is often thought of as being the domain of the young and the new. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking.
But one of the things I've learned
Google launches Android 12 beta 4, hitting the platform stability milestone
Google has now taken another step toward the public release of the latest version of the Android operating system, Android 12. The company today released the fourth beta of Android 12, whose most notable new feature is that it has achieved the Platform Stability milestone — meaning the change
Hear how Cityblock Health’s Toyin Ajayi, Carbon Health’s Eren Bali and Forward’s Adrian Aoun see tech impacting access to health at Disrupt 2021
If there’s one thing that the ongoing COVID-19 crisis has proven, it’s that the healthcare system in the U.S. is in drastic need of major transformation. One of the biggest issues to be highlighted by the pandemic in particular is the iniquity in access to care, but there are signs that
Here’s everything Samsung announced this morning
While it was one of the less-hyped gadget debuts in recent memory, Samsung blasted out a series of announcements at an Unpacked event bright and early this morning.
Too busy to tune in? Still asleep when it all went down? Here’s the slimmed-down version of everything you need to know.
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Hyzon Motors has begun shipping hydrogen fuel cell trucks to customers
Hydrogen-powered heavy-duty truck company Hyzon Motors said Wednesday it is ramping up operations in the wake of its merger with blank-check firm Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corp., including shipping its first trucks to European customers.
The company, which reported second-quarter earnings We
Austin transplant Geoff Lewis wants to pop Silicon Valley's 'self-referential' bubble
Austin has made headlines over the past year for a number of reasons: It's home to Oracle's new headquarters. Tesla is building a massive gigafactory in the Texas capital. And people, mostly tech workers, are leaving the Bay Area in droves to settle in the city, driving up home prices in th
Airtable makes Bayes its first acquisition to up its data visualization game
Airtable, the makers of the no-code relational database, announced its first acquisition today, acquiring Bayes, an early-stage visualization startup. The purpose of the purchase is to enhance the data visualizations on the Airtable platform. The companies did not share the purchase price.
Much lik
Doxel raises $40M from Insight, a16z to become the ‘Waze for construction’
Doxel, which has developed software that uses computer vision to help track and monitor progress on construction job sites, announced today that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding.
Insight Partners led the round, which included participation from existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (a16