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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

By Gail Whiteman and Fred van Beuningen Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Anything that can be made of crude oil is made at the Port. It is a complicated place. On the one hand, it…
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UBS Teardown Report Gives Volkswagen ID.3 High Marks

UBS has completed a tear-down of the Volkswagen ID.3 and given the car a “best in class” rating.


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Muted reaction to Russian sanctions, US withholds local debt option

The US this week confirmed it would follow the EU and sanction certain Russian individuals in connection with the poisoning of prominent opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. The announcements did not move markets, and are a far cry from the worst-case scenario some had feared.


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Relectrify Launches 120kWh-2MWh Commercial & Industrial Second-Life Battery Product

There has been a lot of progress in the electric vehicle industry over the past ten years. Ten years ago, the Nissan Leaf was one of the few mass production fully electric vehicles on the market. It had a 24 kWh battery pack that was good for about 140 km of range. To put that…
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A dark horse in the Ethereum scaling wars? Chainlink’s oracles find fertile ground on xDai

Chainlink is rolling out support for xDai, a layer-two sidechain whose perceived centralization hasn’t stopped major DApp players.


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Binance Smart Chain ‘copykat’ project loses $31 million in possible rugpull

Users now need to ask: how many more protocols are at risk?


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Unslashed Finance raises $2M for crypto insurance platform

Investors include Lemniscap, P2P capital and others. Unslashed Finance has sold $400 million in coverage since its private launch last month.


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BitGo receives trust license from New York regulators

Goldman Sachs-backed crypto custodian BitGo has acquired a New York Trust license to operate as an independent custodian in the state.


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Leaked images show Sonos Roam, the company’s smallest portable speaker, expected to ship on April 20 for $169 (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge:Leaked images show Sonos Roam, the company’s smallest portable speaker, expected to ship on April 20 for $169  —  You’re looking at the first images of the next speaker from Sonos.  Set to be priced at $169, the new device — it’s called the Sonos Roam — is much smaller than…
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Hippo, which uses satellite imagery and smart home sensors to offer better home insurance policies, to go public via SPAC, raising $550M at a valuation of $5B (Leslie Scism/Wall Street Journal)

Leslie Scism / Wall Street Journal:Hippo, which uses satellite imagery and smart home sensors to offer better home insurance policies, to go public via SPAC, raising $550M at a valuation of $5B  —  California firm will merge with blank-check company established by LinkedIn, Zynga founders  —  Home-insurance technology upstart …


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