Six companies are in talks with the UK about building so-called gigafactories for production of batteries for electric cars in moves that could secure the future of Britain’s automobile industry. Carmakers Ford and Nissan, conglomerates LG and Samsung, and start-ups Britishvolt and InoBat Auto are in discussions with the UK government or local authorities about…
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The Fund Australia’s team (l to r): Elicia McDonald, Adrian Petersen, Georgia Vidler, Ed Taylor and Todd Deacon The Fund, the early-stage investment firm focused on pre-seed and seed startups, is going Down Under for its latest expansion. The Fund was founded in New York in 2018, before launching in Los Angeles, London, the Rockies…
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EV battery swapping startup Ample has locked in two partnerships this month that will help fuel an expansion into Japan and New York City after years of working on the technology. The startup, which was founded in 2014 and came out of stealth in March, said Tuesday it has partnered with Japanese petroleum and energy…
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Promising results from a federal demonstration has spurred a bipartisan group of senators to push for new pay models that support integrating primary care and behavioral health. It comes at a time when demand for mental health servcies have spiked due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted—and exacerbated—the mental and behavioral…
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Cleveland Clinic, Intermountain Healthcare, Kaiser Permanente, and Providence are among 12 systems in the country to sign a commitment to expand supplier diversity. The Impact Purchasing Commitment — designed by the Healthcare Anchor Network in partnership with Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth — includes increasing spending with minority and women-owned business enterprises (MWBEs),…
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Don’t mention the war! Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week it has all been about Basel. I mean the lovely Alpine Swiss City of Basel, where the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is based, not Basil Fawlty! First, The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) which…
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The UK government’s environmental adviser has accused ministers of failing to plan for the “inevitable” impact of climate change, despite its repeated warnings, leaving the country worse prepared to tackle global warming than it was five years ago. In its latest, quinquennial stock take of the climate risks facing the UK published on Wednesday, the…
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Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that New York state is ending all Covid-19 restrictions across commercial and social settings. Once a hotspot for the virus, New York has reached its 70 per cent vaccination rate for adults across the state, Cuomo said. New York has administered more than 20.2m vaccine doses to date, “more per capita…
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Andy Wang, an IT engineer at a Shanghai-based gaming company, occasionally felt a pang of guilt about his job. Most of his hours were spent on a piece of surveillance software called DiSanZhiYan, or “Third Eye”. The system was installed on the laptop of every colleague at his company to track their screens in real…
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US president Joe Biden has tapped Lina Khan, a prominent critic of the power of large technology companies, to chair the Federal Trade Commission, according to a person familiar with the matter. The decision elevates the 32-year-old Columbia University Law School professor to a powerful antitrust role in the Biden administration, as lawmakers in Congress…
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