Comcast, a division of NBCUniversal, which broadcasts multiple sports, developed an accelerator to help encourage sports tech startups.
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Tuesday, 31 October 2023
So long, Twitter Circles
If tic-tac-toe has taught us anything, it’s that Xs and circles cannot peacefully coexist. The app formerly known as Twitter, X, has shut down the Circles feature, which allowed users to post to a small, exclusive audience. Like an Instagram Close Friends story, Circles — née Twitter Circles — offered a more intimate social media […]
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Tesla wins fatal Autopilot crash jury trial
A jury on Tuesday handed Tesla another win after siding with the automaker over allegations that its Autopilot advanced driver assistance system led to a death. The case, which was being tried in the Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, was filed by two passengers who survived a 2019 crash and alleged that Tesla […]
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Monday, 30 October 2023
Trump Tells 'Sir' Story ...About Melania?
It seems getting the name of the city wrong wasn't the only stupid thing to come out of Dementia Donny's mouth during his rally in Sioux City, Iowa this Sunday. He also told a "sir" story about Melania while mocking trans athletes.
Melania told Trump what wasn't presidential to do at his rallies — but he did it anyway:
Making fun of a transgender bodybuilder is not presidential, according to former first lady Melania Trump. Her husband relayed the story in a Sioux City, Iowa rally on Sunday.
Donald Trump told the supporters who gathered at the event a number of rambling stories, including that he is suffering under $100 million in legal bills. But when it came to issues of LGBTQ equality and human rights, Trump said he's not allowed to make fun of a transgender bodybuilder. However, making fun of a transgender swimmer appears to be acceptable.
And he given the fact that the rambling included a "sir" story, it's a given that all of it it completely made up. Sadly the MAGA idiots in the crowd just loved the idiocy.
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French soccer players back African mobile video network StarNews Mobile in $3M round
African mobile video network StarNews Mobile has secured $3 million in pre-Series A funding. StarNews offers African content creators a platform for monetizing their work through a subscription model. Currently, the service is available in six African countries, including Cameroon (where it started), Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Benin and Ivory Coast. Founder and CEO Guy Kamgaing […]
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Sunday, 29 October 2023
Layoffs at VW’s Cariad further delay software launch in Porsche, Audi models
Volkswagen’s software unit Cariad will delay the launch of its new software architecture yet again as it deals with a large round of layoffs. Just three years after VW created Cariad, and only six months after an executive shakeup, the unit has planned to cut 2,000 jobs, German publication Manager Magazin reported over the weekend. […]
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J.D. Vance Grilled For Refusing To Help Gaza Children
CBS host Margaret Brennan grilled Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Sunday after he said he opposed aid to children in Gaza because he insisted it would go to the terror group Hamas.
While Vance agreed that there are "a lot of innocent people in Gaza," he insisted that terrorists would intercept the aid packages.
"So if you deliver a large amount of humanitarian assistance, who's it going to go to?" he asked. "The children in Gaza or to the Hamas fighters on the front line? I fear it's going to go to Hamas."
Brennan pointed out that international organizations like the Red Cross were distributing the aid.
"But I think there's still a lot of evidence with a lot of these international organizations that when we send aid into Gaza, a lot of it goes into the wrong hands," Vance said. "We don't want to basically fund two sides of the exact same conflict. Fund Hamas, fund Israel."
"Well, it's not aid to Hamas," Brennan observed. "It's aid to the Palestinian people."
"And if I could wave a magic wand and give aid to the Palestinian children, I will," Vance quipped.
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Posts with misinformation on X become ‘ineligible for revenue share’ says Musk
X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checking system, will become “ineligible for revenue share,” Elon Musk said Sunday. “The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism,” he wrote. The billionaire executive also noted that any attempts to “weaponize Community Notes to demonetize people will be immediately obvious, […]
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Anti-Vaxxers Pour In To Sh*t All Over Matthew Perry's Death
Beloved former “Friends” star Matthew Perry died at 54. Perry was reportedly found in a hot tub outside of his home at around 4 p.m. Saturday in Los Angeles, with the cause of death listed as an “apparent drowning.”
Anti-vaxxers poured in on social media to promptly blame the COVID-19 vaccination for his death. Kandiss Taylor, a former GOP candidate for governor of Georgia and current GOP chair of Georgia’s 1st congressional district, weighed in. She even pinned this tweet.
Saturday, 28 October 2023
Tuberville Blames Democrats For Wars In Ukraine And Middle East
The sort of partisan hackery one expects in the House of Representatives, not in the U.S. Senate. Alabama had Doug Jones, but they chose this putz instead and now the country is paying the price.
Source: NewsMax
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, who has been blocking more than 300 military promotions because of his opposition to travel allowances for members of the military seeking abortions, told Newsmax Thursday that Democrats who are working on a proposal to circumvent his actions would be better off focusing on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East that "their side, the Democrats, and Joe Biden have created."
"They want to circumvent the rules in the Senate," the Alabama Republican told Newsmax's "Newsline." "The only power you have in the minority is to be able to have holds on something to get the attention of the other side, whether it's Republican or Democrat."
But now, "they know I mean business when it comes to abortion in the military," Tuberville added while accusing Democrats of wanting to change the Senate's policy on legislative holds "midstream."
"They didn't give the American taxpayers an opportunity to have their representatives vote on this," he said. "That's all I want is a vote."
Tommy Tuberville, a friend of Hamas and Vladimir Putin.
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Judge Chutkan Asks Trump If He Wants His Trial Televised
There are a few strains of thought here. Donald Trump, a former reality TV show star, loves publicity. Still, exposure to the courtroom by television cameras could also reveal the unvarnished truth instead of what he chooses to post on his Truth Social platform. The former President's lead lawyer in the case, John Lauro, previously told CNN that he supported televising the trial. Meanwhile, prosecutors are not keen on the idea.
And would it be Constitutional? If not, maybe we can terminate that part of the Constitution. I hear that Trump's into that. However, Trump would turn the proceedings into a circus.
Reuters reports:
A U.S. judge on Friday asked former President Donald Trump whether he wants to appear on television when he stands trial in federal court on charges of attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington asked Trump's lawyers to give their opinion by Nov. 10 on media requests to broadcast the trial, which is scheduled to begin in March 2024.
In two separate filings, NBC News and a coalition of 19 media organizations and press advocacy groups argue that the public has a right to see an unprecedented trial of a former U.S. president who is also the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination. They argue that a federal rule barring broadcast of criminal proceedings is unconstitutional.
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Bye, Bye Mike, Sure Gonna Miss You!
Today, Mike Pence announced in Las Vegas that he was suspending his campaign and exiting the race for the GOP nomination. See, keeping his mouth shut about the Mango Menace was rewarded, just the way he hoped. (Not.) Via the Washington Post:
He received a standing ovation from the influential donors in a room of more than 1000 people on Saturday as he said he had concluded that it “was not his time.”
“After much prayer and deliberation I have decided to suspend my campaign for president,” he said. “Let me promise you I will never leave the fight, for conservative values and I will never stop.”
“We always knew this would be an uphill battle, but I have no regrets,” he said. “The only thing that would have been harder than coming up short.”
“I urge all my fellow Republicans here give our country a Republican standard-bearer that will, as Lincoln said, appeal to the better angels of our nature, and not only lead us to victory but lead our nation with civility back to the time-honored principles that have always made America strong and prosperous and free.”
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Cruise ceases robotaxi operations, the Apple Watch gets a new feature and Carta tries to head off bad press
Hello, ghouls and goblins, and welcome to this Halloween Weekend edition of Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s weekly tech recap in newsletter form. For our U.S.-based readers (and this reporter), ’tis the time for mid-autumn merrymaking — time-tested traditions like jack-o’-lantern carving, costuming and apple picking. May we all make the most of it. In […]
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Friday, 27 October 2023
‘Stop the AV disaster’: Teamsters local and rideshare drivers join forces
Two of the biggest groups to oppose robotaxi expansion in California are now formally working together. Teamsters 856, which is tied to one of the longest-standing labor unions in the U.S., and Rideshare Drivers United (RDU), a group that advocates for app-based workers, said on Friday they’ll work together to push for “responsible guardrails on […]
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AI’s proxy war heats up as Google reportedly backs Anthropic with $2B
With a massive $2 billion reported investment from Google, Anthropic joins OpenAI in reaping the benefits of leadership in the artificial intelligence space, receiving immense sums from the tech giants that couldn’t move fast enough themselves. A byword for the age: Those who can, build; those who can’t, invest. The funding deal, according to sources […]
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Tech layoffs are back with a vengeance
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. For my column this week, I told the story of how an ex-colleague was impersonated by an AI-powered spambot and almost tricked me. It a nutshell: AI is often used for good, but it is increasingly used for nefarious purposes […]
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Thursday, 26 October 2023
Soundboks is scaling high-volume, high-energy speakers across borders and cultures
Norway-based Soundboks just released its latest $1,000 Bluetooth speaker. Now in its fourth generation, the latest Soundboks speaker is just like the older models: it’s a large, unabashed black box designed to withstand a rowdy, off-the-grid weekend of music. While widly popular in Norway and Sweden, co-founder and CEO Jesper Thomsen has struggled to find […]
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SBF testifying, bitcoin rises amid spot ETF speculation and Walmart’s web3 accelerator surfaces
It’s week four of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial…and he’s taking the stand today at 2 p.m. So keep an eye out for additional coverage.
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Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Robotaxis ‘do not belong in the city of Los Angeles,’ lawmaker says
Robotaxi oversight is now a priority at Los Angeles City Hall. At a press briefing on Wednesday, Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martínez told Waymo and Cruise that their robotaxis are not welcome. “The purpose of this press event is to send a very clear message about robot taxis, and say that they do not belong in the […]
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Mike Johnson Is The New Speaker Of The House
Republicans finally fell in line today and elected Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. Johnson has been in the House since 2016, so he doesn't have much experience.
Steve Bannon and Matt Gaetz, on the other hand, are chortling because he knocked out all the experienced GOP leadership in order to install his MAGA speaker of choice with the same sword hanging over his head that Kevin McCarthy had -- one Representative can move to knock him out of that position.
One thing that has been driven home in this vote: It was never about election denial. Mike Johnson led the charge to overturn the 2020 election and yet this time around they all fell in line and voted for him, because he's basically Jim Jordan without the bluster.
There is no daylight between Jim Jordan and Mike Johnson:
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Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images
Amazon is rolling out a new AI image generation tool for advertisers to generate backgrounds based on product descriptions and themes. Amazon is currently beta testing the tool with select advertisers and will expand availability “over time,” the company says. To use the tool, advertisers upload a photo, type an image description describing a background […]
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Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Washington State Sen. Jeff Wilson Arrested In Hong Kong Airport With Gun
"Wilson said that he didn’t realize the firearm was in his bag and that baggage screeners at the airport in the U.S. hadn’t detected it." Obviously, Wilson will now sue the TSA screeners for their failure.
Moron.
And Republican, of course. But that really didn't need to be added, did it?
Wilson and his wife were just about to begin a five-week vacation in Southeast Asia, with stops in Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. His plans have been scuttled now, as he has a court appearance on Oct. 30 in Hong Kong.
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HONG KONG — A Washington state senator was arrested at the airport in Hong Kong and charged with possession of an unregistered firearm, his office said.
Sen. Jeff Wilson, R-Longview, was detained at Hong Kong International Airport on Friday night after he found a pistol in his carry-on bag and reported it to customs officials.
He was released on bail Sunday and faces a hearing Oct. 30.
“It was an honest mistake, and I expect the situation to be resolved shortly,” he said in a statement.
Wilson said he did not realize the unloaded weapon was in his bag when he passed through security at the airport in Portland, Oregon, where it was not detected by baggage screeners.
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The Davis-Bacon Act changes present a chance for startups to disrupt construction tech
The U.S. construction landscape looks much different this week compared to last Friday, following the amendments to the Davis-Bacon Act that went into effect earlier this week.
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SpaceX to launch European navigation satellites as EU launchers stall
SpaceX will launch four navigation satellites for the European Space Agency (ESA) amid ongoing delays with homegrown next-generation launch vehicles. The Wall Street Journal was the first to break the news. Earlier this summer, Politico reported that the European Commission was looking abroad for a launcher for the Galileo satellites, though at the time United […]
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Adapting to the climate crisis with Jonas Torland from 7Analytics
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom talk about the seemingly endless slate of rainy Saturdays here on the east coast. Thankfully, this episode’s guest Jonas Torland of 7Analytics is helping us feeling a little less gloomy about the current effects of climate change. Bergen, […]
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Monday, 23 October 2023
Max Q: SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic speak on space regulations
In this issue: No new regulations on human spaceflight, news from Varda Space and more.
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So how about another 20 IPOs?
One key area of private-market performance that we haven't yet given enough attention to is the matter of exits.
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What’s behind the fresh round of tech layoffs?
But let’s not forget as we dig into the reasons why we are seeing a new wave of tech layoffs that this is more than an academic exploration.
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While tech companies play with OpenAI’s API, this startup believes small, in-house AI models will win
ZenML wants to be the glue that makes all the open-source AI tools stick together. This open-source framework lets you build pipelines that will be used by data scientists, machine-learning engineers and platform engineers to collaborate and build new AI models. The reason why ZenML is interesting is that it empowers companies so they can […]
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Sunday, 22 October 2023
Peak XV’s latest Surge batch is 77% AI and deeptech startups
AI and other deep technologies are the prevailing themes in the new early-stage cohort from Peak XV Partners, as the largest India and Southeast Asia-focused VC fund intensifies its search for opportunities in a sector garnering international frenzy. Ten out of 13 startups in the latest cohort of Surge, Peak XV’s powerfully influential early-stage program, […]
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Rivian R1T is the first EV to win the longest off-road competition in the US
Motorsports and off-road competition isn’t the typical fodder over here at TechCrunch — unless, of course, there also happens to be a podium-winning team driving an all-electric 2023 Rivian R1T. The Rebelle Rally, the longest off-road map-and-compass rally in the United States, wrapped up Friday evening with a new EV milestone under its belt. This […]
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Tesla ‘digs its own grave with the Cybertruck,’ Convoy collapses and Rivian scores a win at Rebelle
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.
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Why Monday.com decided to build its new database instead of buying one
When Monday.com faced the classic build vs. buy dilemma for a new database, it decided to build one, but with a decided twist.
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Federal hydrogen hub program could give fuel a boost — or the boot
The federal government's approach to hydrogen is strikingly similar to the way it promoted biofuels a decade ago. That's not a good thing.
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Is Plaid’s potential IPO a sign of fintech turning a corner?
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! Unfortunately we can’t make it to Money20/20 next week. But we have no doubt that we’re going to […]
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Saturday, 21 October 2023
LNMC: Heart Of Glass By Blondie
Heart of Glass was on Blondie's third album, Parallel Lines. While the album was released in 1978, they released Heart of Glass and two other songs as singles in January, 1979. It quickly soared to number one in several countries and has been consistently in Rolling Stones' top 500 songs of all time, most recently ranking 138 in 2021.
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Friday, 20 October 2023
Kraken Lady, Step Aside. Cheseboro Just Made A Plea Deal, Too
After the Kraken Lady decided to flip like a pancake on a hot griddle, Kenneth Chesebro, a Donald Trump-aligned attorney who helped craft the 2020 fake elector plot, decided to jump in that griddle, too, so he is pleading guilty in the Georgia election subversion case.
Chesebro, who was charged alongside the twice-impeached, four-times indicted former President and more than a dozen other codefendants with serious charges, such as attempting to delay the transfer of power after the 2020 election, was scheduled to stand trial this week.
MSNBC talking heads discussed the breaking news.
"The significance of Kenneth Chesebro switching his plea, following what Sidney Powell did the other day, switching his plea to guilty, it seems to -- my read on this one count, count 15, it's a felony of filing false documents, but it seems to me it's a very light sentence -- that was a minimum of one to five incarceration, and he ended up with a fine, community service, a letter of apology," Andrea Mitchell said.
"It's hard to overstate, I think, the significance of what we have just watched unfold here," MSNBC legal correspondent Laura Jarrett said. "You have somebody who prosecutors believe was at the center of the scheme to create false slates of electors to put forth to The National Archives and Congress, to overturn the will of the people, overturn the election results in Georgia, who has now pled guilty to a felony."
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Thursday, 19 October 2023
Temasek’s Xero backs Cosmos Innovation’s next-generation solar cell technology
Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology is a mouthful, but it’s basically perovskite crystals layered on top of silicon cells. The combination captures energy from the sun more efficiently than traditional silicon cells, creating powerful solar panels. That sounds simple enough, but designing an efficient perovskite silicon tandem solar cell isn’t easy because of its […]
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Tomi Lahren's Newest Outrage About Biden Is Her Dumbest Moment Ever
Conservatives like Tomi Lahren desperately need something or anything to be outraged about. It's a rule to belong to their club where their members are dwindling. It doesn't matter how ridiculous they sound; it's an essential issue to them.
The newest outrage is the stairs President Biden uses to board Air Force One because nothing else is going on in the world.
"And that's because we have this commander-in-chief in the Oval Office," Tomi said. "A lot of Americans right now feel rudderless."
"A lot of Americans are looking at this president, hoping that he'll show signs of leadership and strength," she insisted. "And meanwhile, he can't even use the regular-sized stairs to board Air Force One."
"I mean, you can't make this stuff up, Sean," she added.
Biden is 80-years-old, just three years older than Trump. When people have the olds, they might take a shorter route. With Biden, he just visited a warzone for the second time in his presidency. That said, it's fine by me if he takes fewer steps on a staircase.
I can't believe we're even discussing this. I'm an absolute clutz. I fell down a staircase in a fancy pants club in France when I was all dressed up, etc. I was 23 at the time -- so Tomi can shut the fuck up. Biden is human. Oh no!
I'm leaving this here just because:
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SBF trial brings in FTX exec and experts, NY AG sues three crypto firms for fraud, Reddit kills blockchain program and FTC sues bankrupt Voyager
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It’s week three of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial…how are you holding up?
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Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Was Loom’s $975M exit a fair price?
When Atlassian announced it was buying Loom for $975 million last week, it turns out after close analysis that it was a good deal for all concerned.
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Jim Jordan Loses Speaker Vote Again, Republicans Very Sad
Republicans weren't exactly fired up at the thought of Rep. Jim Jordan as Speaker, but quite a few of them finally voted for the former sexual-abuse denying assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State. Still, Jordan couldn't bring in the votes or the enthusiasm. But House minority leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries brought in both, and he will have that gavel one day.
"The tellers agree in their tallies that the total number of votes cast is 433, of which the Honorable Jim Jordan of the state of Ohio has received 199," acting speaker Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) said, and that garnered no applause.
"The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of the state of New York has received 212," he added, with lawmakers erupting in applause.
Twitter users weighed in:
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
WeWork fires back at competitor Codi with cease and desist following ‘WeWont’ campaign
WeWork has sent a cease and desist letter to rival Codi in response to the startup’s recent marketing campaign it dubs “WeWont,” TechCrunch has exclusively learned. In the letter dated by October 13, viewed by TechCrunch, WeWork’s Chief Legal Officer Pam Swidler cited “unauthorized use and misappropriation of WeWork’s intellectual property, false advertising and Tortious […]
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GM delays $4B EV truck factory plan by another year
General Motors is pushing its $4 billion plan to convert its Orion Assembly plant into an EV truck factory to late 2025, a year later than scheduled. GM’s reasoning behind the delay — which will mean Orion will sit idle for two years — is “to better manage capital investment while aligning with evolving EV […]
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Rep. Pete Aguilar Rips 'Legislative Terrorist' Jordan To Shreds
Rep. Pete Aguilar took apart "legislative terrorist" Jim Jordan just prior to formally nominating Hakeem Jeffries for speaker.
AGUILAR: A vote today to make the architect of a nationwide abortion ban, a vocal election denier, and an insurrection insider to the speaker of this House would be a terrible message to the country and our allies.
Mr. Speaker, it would send an even more troubling message to our enemies, that the very people who would seek to undermine democracy are rewarded with positions of immense power.
We are talking about someone who has spent his entire career trying to hold our country back, putting our national security in danger, attempting government shutdown after government shutdown, wasting taxpayer dollars on baseless investigations with dead ends, authoring the very bill that would ban abortion nationwide without exceptions, and inviting violence on this chamber.
Even members of his own party called him a legislative terrorist. He once said, “I didn't come to Congress to make more laws,” because words speak for themselves.
When New Yorkers recovering from Hurricane Sandy needed Congress to act, he said no. When wildfires ravaged the west, destroying homes and businesses and those residents needed disaster assistance, he said no. When the Mississippi River floods devastated the south in communities across state lines and needed Congress to act, he said no.
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Monday, 16 October 2023
Zipcar hit with feds’ first-ever fine for renting out recalled cars
If you rented a van from Zipcar a while back, there’s a chance it failed to meet the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s safety standards. The agency hit Zipcar with a first-of-its-kind fine for “renting vehicles with open, unrepaired recalls,” the agency announced on Monday. The NHTSA named one recall in particular in its public […]
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House Democrats ARE Looking For A Way Forward On Speakership
House Democrats are having little success in getting the Washington, D.C., press corps to understand that it is not the Democrats’ job to make Republicans stop hitting themselves, even as those battered Republicans spit on the idea of bipartisanship. What Democrats have been successful at, though, is a unified message. When the Republicans are ready to ask for help, it will be there—for a price.
A two-pronged strategy for Democrats seems to be taking shape, Axios reports, starting with them reaching out to Rep. Patrick McHenry, the temporary speaker, from a group of four moderate Democrats from the Problem Solvers Caucus. They sent a letter to McHenry offering to assist in a vote to “expand the Speaker Pro Tempore's authorities” to deal with urgent priorities, such as Israel and Ukrainian aid and government funding. They would agree to empowering McHenry in 15-day increments in return for votes on those priorities.
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Sunday, 15 October 2023
Michael Flynn Auctions Mike Lindell-Signed Pillow For Peter Navarro's Legal Fund
Disgraced former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn auctioned off a MyPillow cushion signed by Mike Lindell to benefit former Trump adviser Peter Navarro's legal fund.
The auction occurred over the weekend at a "Reawaken America Tour" in Miami, where an audience was instructed to write their names on U.S. currency.
"So when Mike was here yesterday, we showed the pillow up here," Flynn said. "But what he did was he signed it, dated it, and so now what we're gonna do is we're gonna do a fundraiser tithing drill here, and you have to write your name down on the bill, you drop it in that bag, and then once we're done, we're gonna pull it and you're gonna get this, this is the Type 2-0, I should give a commercial for my, like Giza something, and it has, and it's signed by Mike Lindell."
"It'll make, it'll extend your life by at least two years, look at it, look it up," he added.
The pillow was eventually awarded to a woman named Karen, who asked Navarro what job he would have in the next Trump administration.
"I want to prosecute Fauci," Navarro replied.
Navarro is facing contempt of Congress charges after he ignored a congressional subpoena.
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Stable Genius: 'Republicans Eat Their Young'
On Saturday, the Stable Genius posted a video on Truth Social [sic] in which he gripes about and insults several of his fellow Republicans before he complains that the Party is not unifying. He said that the Republicans "eat their young:"
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Saturday, 14 October 2023
LNMC: Flowers By Miley Cyrus
I wanted to start trying to have more variety of music, even if it means leaving out of my comfort zone, which you might have noticed is mostly just classic rock. To show how old I really am, all the "new" songs that I considered were mostly 10 years old or older. But I know that Miley Cyrus's Flowers is relatively new. In my opinion, her Backyard Session shows off her talent and her amazing voice much better than the "official video."
And at least she isn't sporting a mullet, like her father.
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The SBF trial continues, Atlassian acquires Loom, and OpenAI explores making its own chips
Happy Saturday, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that covers the major stories in tech over the past several days. I feel inclined to begin this edition with a sobering note about the recent events in Israel and Gaza. It’s obviously impacted the tech ecosystem there, but from a purely humanistic […]
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How roboticists are thinking about generative AI
[A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] The topic of generative AI comes up frequently in my newsletter, Actuator. I admit that I was a bit hesitant to spend more time on the subject a few months back. Anyone who has been reporting on technology for as long […]
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Friday, 13 October 2023
Looks Like The Fox Ramaswamy Honeymoon Is Over
After propping this grifter up for months on end, it seems Fox's Sean Hannity has finally had enough of Vivek Ramaswamy. Ramaswamy made an appearance on Hannity's show this Thursday, and things didn't go too well for him when he accused Nikki Haley of benefiting financially from war.
During the heated exchange, Hannity pressed Ramaswamy about a number of statements he has made on the campaign trail, particularly as it relates to foreign policy and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, one of his 2024 Republican rivals.
“Why would you call Nikki Haley corrupt?” Hannity asked.
“If you’re making money off your time in government, then I don’t think you’re fit to be president of the United States,” Ramaswamy said.
“A lot of people don’t think you’re qualified because you weren’t even a Republican or voting Republican until, what, 2020?” Hannity replied.
“Well Sean, it depends on what your objectives with this interview are,” Ramaswamy retorted. “I voted libertarian in my first election. I voted Republican in 2020. You’re right, I’m not a partisan hack. I come in from the outside. I’m an independent-minded patriot who speaks the truth.”
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Uber sexual assault survivors call for in-car cameras, tech upgrades
Hundreds of women have filed lawsuits against Uber claiming the company hasn’t done enough to prevent instances of sexual assault by drivers. Now, a panel of judges has ruled that more than 80 cases can be consolidated into federal court. The stakes are high for both parties with implications extending to future Uber riders and […]
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Israel’s startup ecosystem: Down but not out
The world is still coming to terms with Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israelis last weekend — and everything else that has unfolded so far in the aftermath, including the barrage of retaliation strikes on Gaza. A look at how the situation is playing out in the startup ecosystem sheds light on its impact to the […]
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Founders, are events useful?
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. A few months ago, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, tweeted that if he could go back in time and do one thing differently when he was building Reddit, he would have spent significantly less time attending events. Personally I […]
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Thursday, 12 October 2023
End To Junk Fees: Biden Saves Americans Billions
Consumer advocacy groups on Wednesday applauded new efforts announced by the Biden administration to rein in banks and other companies that make billions of dollars per year charging Americans what President Joe Biden called "outrageous" hidden fees when they make purchases or use basic financial services.
Speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House, Biden said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed a new rule that would ban businesses from charging "junk fees"—unexpected "service charges" and other fees that are revealed to a consumer just before an online purchase is finalized by ticketing companies, car rental agencies, and other businesses.
Biden said companies charge the fees "simply because they can" and that banning them will give households across the nation more "breathing room."
"These junk fees can add hundreds of dollars weighing down family budgets, making it harder to pay family bills," said the president. "These junk fees may not matter to the wealthy, but they sure matter to working folks in homes like the one I grew up in."
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Ford increases wages at planned EV battery factories amid UAW strike
Ford and its joint venture partner SK On, will increase wages at two planned EV battery factories in Kentucky and Tennessee in an effort to assuage striking autoworkers. That offer might not be enough. The joint venture, known as BlueOval SK, said it’s offering higher wages for maintenance technicians and associate maintenance technicians, ranging from […]
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Cruise opens robotaxi service in Houston
GM’s self-driving car subsidiary Cruise has opened its robotaxi service to users in Houston — an expansion that comes amid increasing criticism of the company’s operations in San Francisco, it’s first launch city. Cruise said it will operate seven days a week from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. in about 11 square miles of sprawling […]
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Hey Republicans, What If McCarthy Is As Good As You've Got?
by Hugh Jackson, Nevada Current
October 5, 2023
House Democrats, including the trio from Nevada, who this week all voted to tell Kevin McCarthy “you’re fired” (or words to that effect), made an assortment of points, including but not limited to:
1) McCarthy is an untrustworthy buffoon
2) Republicans built this, it’s their problem
3) Getting rid of McCarthy offers the hope that House dysfunction will end and House Republicans will start governing responsibly.
Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus reiterated the first two points in a statement yesterday. McCarthy “has weakened our democratic institutions, gone back on his promises, called for a bogus impeachment inquiry, and brought us to the brink of a disastrous shutdown. It’s up to Republicans to get their own house in order.”
But there is little if any evidence in support of the third point – that things will somehow be better under a new Republican Speaker.
At the end of May, over objections from his party’s hard-right extremists, McCarthy put a negotiated debt ceiling measure on the House floor, so that Republicans and Democrats both would have a chance to vote on it. It passed with bipartisan majorities, and a default on the nation’s debt that would have cratered the economy was averted.
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Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Idaho Bans Abortion While Ending Support For Pregnancy
by Audrey Dutton
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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of federal protection for abortion, some states began enforcing strict abortion bans while others became new havens for the procedure. ProPublica is investigating how sweeping changes to reproductive health care access in America are affecting people, institutions and governments.
When the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade, it greenlighted the kind of near-universal abortion restrictions that Idaho lawmakers had spent the previous two years crafting. Gov. Brad Little said the state should turn to helping women who might otherwise have terminated pregnancies.
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More money won’t fix your failing startup — here’s how to get investors to back a pivot
If your company isn’t seeing strong growth with customers eager to use the product, it might be time to pivot the company in a new direction.
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Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE
Anysphere, a startup building what it describes as an “AI-native” software development environment, called Cursor, today announced that it raised $8 million in seed funding led by OpenAI’s Startup Fund with participation from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and other angel investors. The new cash, which brings Anysphere’s total raised to […]
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Tuesday, 10 October 2023
What drove online used car marketplace Shift to file for bankruptcy
Shift Technologies, the San Francisco-based online used car startup turned publicly traded company, filed this week for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The short story, according to recent filings, is that the company’s deteriorating cash position and inability to obtain further financing drove the company to file for bankruptcy and begin the process of closing down the […]
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Hackers advertised 23andMe stolen data two months ago
Genetic testing company 23andMe has been investigating a security incident after hackers advertised a trove of alleged stolen user data on a hacking forum last week. But the alleged stolen data may have been circulating for much longer than first known. TechCrunch has also found that some of the advertised stolen data matches known 23andMe […]
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As misinfo circulates on X amid the Israel-Hamas war, reporters look to other platforms
In the wake of increasing misinformation related to the Israel-Hamas war now circulating on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, a number of journalists are building up their networks on rival platforms. The shift, though potentially small in terms of raw user numbers, could have an outsized impact on X, where power users create […]
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Demos aren’t as important as you think for your VC pitch
Before you start planning how you’ll demonstrate your product, you first need to consider whether you need a demo at all.
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Monday, 9 October 2023
John Riccitiello steps down as unity CEO with former Red Hat chief exec Jim Whitehurst taking over for now
Weeks after upsetting developers with a proposed runtime fee, only to quickly backtrack on the idea, Unity announced today that CEO John Riccitiello was stepping down from his multiple roles as president, CEO and board chair, going from having a ton of responsibility to having a lot of time on his hands. In a surprise […]
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The UAW Strike Is Working
Wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words, "Eat the Rich" in his latest online broadcast Friday afternoon, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain told the union's 145,000 members that brand-new progress made in contract negotiations with the Big Three automakers made one thing clear: "We are winning."
Fain addressed the union as thousands of its members concluded the third week of a "stand-up" strike, in which autoworkers have been gradually called to join the work stoppage to build pressure on the companies—Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis—to provide a fair contract commensurate with their record-breaking profits and including a just transition to renewable energy.
Just minutes before Fain was planning to announce that workers at GM's assembly plant in Arlington, Texas were being called on to join the strike, the automaker told UAW negotiators it would include workers at its electric vehicle factories to be covered under the union's national agreement.
Buzzy social app Fizz sues rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices
Fizz, the buzzy anonymous social app that’s now being used across over 80 college campuses, has filed suit against rival Sidechat, alleging unfair competition and a range of abuses, including attempts at disrupting Fizz’s launches, spreading rumors about Fizz having hackers, trademark infringements, sending false spam reports to Instagram, and using false pretenses to acquire […]
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ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing
There’s some good news and bad news for ChatGPT’s mobile efforts. On the positive side, the AI chatbot continues to see the number of app installs and its revenue grow, with September setting a new record on both fronts: 15.6 million downloads and nearly $4.6 million in gross revenue across its iOS and Android apps […]
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Sunday, 8 October 2023
World Bank’s IFC backs Indian insurtech startup Onsurity in $24M funding
Onsurity, an Indian startup that offers monthly subscription-based insurance solutions to micro, small and medium enterprises, startups and growing businesses, has raised $24 million in a funding round led by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Series B round also saw the participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Quona Capital. With […]
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Tech group calls India’s proposed guidelines against dark patterns ‘regulatory overlap’
An industry group representing several major U.S. tech companies has opposed the Indian government’s proposal against dark patterns, which are used to deceive online users, and said the move would adversely affect the state promise of enabling “ease of doing business” in the economy and bring “regulatory overlap” with existing laws. New Delhi released the […]
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Waymo-Zeekr robotaxi poised for US testing by end of 2023
Nearly two years after Waymo and Geely struck a deal to develop robotaxis for the U.S. market, we are seeing concrete progress in the collaboration. According to a job post posted on LinkedIn, Zeekr, the young electric car brand started by Chinese auto giant Geely, is hiring a logistics manager in the U.S. A spokesperson for […]
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European Digital insurtech startup Getsafe acquires Luko’s German portfolio, reaches 550,000 customers
Getsafe, a German-based digital insurtech startup, has acquired the German portfolio of Luko, a French insurtech startup that recently neared insolvency before agreeing to be acquired by British insurer Admiral Group in a transaction that didn’t include its German or Spanish operations. Getsafe is now present in four countries since its expansion into France. Luko’s own […]
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Jim Jordan Supporter Nancy Mace Feigns Ignorance Of Ohio State Sex Abuse
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), an advocate for sexual assault victims, offered no defense of Rep. Jim Jordan's Ohio State wrestling controversy as she supported his bid for House Speaker.
On Sunday, CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Mace about allegations that Jordan knew wrestlers were being sexually abused when he was a coach at the school.
"I know you've been outspoken about defending victims of sexual assault," Brennan observed. "Do the past allegations against Jim Jordan that he turned a blind eye to sexual abuse give you any reservations?"
"I — yeah, I'm not familiar or aware with that," Mace replied. "He's not indicted on anything that I'm aware of. And so I don't I don't know anything. I can't speak to that."
"How do you square that?" Brennan pressed. "These are the Ohio State University allegations."
"Yeah, yeah, I don't know anything — I don't know anything about that," Mace insisted. "What I do know is that I've been a very strong voice for women. I've talked to Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise about that."
"I've been a very strong advocate for rape victims, as you mentioned earlier," she added. "And those are the facts and the data that I have to work with. And I've had a very positive experience with him in that regard."
Jordan has been accused of ignoring the sexual abuse of wrestlers during his time at Ohio State.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene: GOP In 'Serious Weakened Position' After Speaker Ousted
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday lashed out at eight Republicans, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who voted to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Greene made the remarks during an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo a day after Israel suffered a major terrorist attack.
"What happened to Israel could happen to America because our country has been invaded by millions of people from over 160 countries," Greene claimed. "And we've been invaded by people we don't even know where they are."
"And so what we're seeing in Israel could happen to the United States of America," she continued. "And it'd be foolish to ever think that that's not possible."
Bartiromo wondered if Republicans would accelerate their efforts to find a new speaker.
"Has the war on Israel created an expedited situation in terms of getting a speaker in place?" she asked. "Can you walk us through what will take place this week with regard to the speaker of the House?"
"We are in a serious [sic] weakened position, Republicans that control the majority in the House of Representatives," Greene remarked. "I want to remind everyone that we barely control the majority of the House, and that's only one-third of the federal government."
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NBC Host Hits 'Irresponsible' Matt Gaetz After House Left Without Speaker During Crisis
NBC host Kristen Welker challenged Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after he orchestrated the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) just days before a deadly terrorist attack in Israel.
While speaking to Gaetz on Meet the Press, Welker wondered if the lawmaker took any responsibility for grinding the House of Representatives to a halt during a crisis.
"We stand with the people of Israel," Gaetz opined. "Israel has a right to defend itself."
"Congressman, you say that you stand with Israel, you're ready to defend Israel, and yet you're completely incapable of helping Israel because you've brought Congress to a standstill, a state of paralysis, have you not?" Welker pressed.
"Let me, let me get a word in here, Kristen," Gaetz interrupted.
The congressman shifted the blame to Republicans who called a recess after McCarthy was ousted.
"And if, if [Patrick McHenry] had not made that decision, we would have a speaker right now," Gaetz said.
"Well, that takes me to my next question, Congressman, because you led this effort to oust Speaker McCarthy without a clear replacement in place," Welker noted. "Was that irresponsible on your part?"
"Well, not only do we have a clear replacement, we have two, we have two men who are incredibly respected," Gaetz replied. "So the fact that it's been a constrained race, you are watching the plan play out."
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Here’s how Rainforest, a budding Stripe rival, aims to win over software companies
Rainforest raises $8.5M and PayPal gets hit with a lawsuit. We take a look at this and other hot fintech news from the previous week.
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Women and underrepresented founders aren’t going to wait for the VC industry to transform itself
You will only have one shot to impress your future financial backers — make sure you are confident and ready.
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They're Not Acting nullnullnull
It's Sunday morning and not only are they not acting, we have a leaderless House of Representatives which means a limited response to the absolutely horrible attack on Israel by the terrorist group known as Hamas. Meanwhile, the head of the RNC sees the carnage in Israel as "an opportunity." Just so utterly craven.
This entire week has been exhausting, and now we're on the verge of a new one. What do you hope for the upcoming week?
- Karoli
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Saturday, 7 October 2023
RNC Chair McDaniel Calls Israel Attacks 'Great Opportunity For Our Candidates’
I'm so glad RNC Chair Ronna Don't-Call-Me-Romney McDaniel could find a bright side to the tragic events in Israel this weekend. Nothing like saying the quiet part out loud if you're a craven political opportunist.
McDaniel made an appearance on Fox News Live this Saturday and was asked about some of the responses made by the Republican candidates running for president following Hamas attacking Israel.
McDaniel was quick to blame Biden for the attack, and to spread the same lie we've been hearing from some of the GOP candidates, liars on Fox, and Trump, that somehow the $6 billion in released assets for Iran is responsible for this attack. Never mind that none of it has even been spent yet.
That won't stop them from using this to attack Biden, pretend that Republicans are better on foreign policy than Democrats (which they aren't) and to gloat that this is some game changer for Republicans in the upcoming presidential election, despite the fact that they've got a leading candidate that's both a criminal, and insane, as McDaniel did here.
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LNMC: What's Up? Covered By Dolly Parton (Feat. Linda Perry)
This is the latest release from Dolly Parton's album Rockstar, in which she works with both rock legends and today's rock stars and sings some of rock's most classic and iconic songs. The fascinating thing about these songs is that while they are comfortably familiar, Dolly puts her own touch on it, making it new and exciting at the same time. It's like a comfort food that has a new twist to it. But no matter how you describe it, the effect is out of this world.
She did her same magic with Queen's We Are The Champions/We Will Rock You.
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Yes, You Can Get Tax Credits For EV Or Hybrid Cars In 2024
Starting in 2024, people who want to buy a new or used electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle will be able to get U.S. government income tax credits at the time of purchase. Via Associated Press:
Eligible buyers, including those that bought an EV or hybrid this year, have had to wait until they filed their federal income tax returns to actually get the benefits.
The Treasury Department says the near-instant credits of $7,500 for an eligible new vehicle and $4,000 for a qualifying used vehicle should lower purchasing costs for consumers and help car dealers by boosting EV sales.
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, which included the credits, buyers can transfer the credits to dealers, which can apply them at the point of sale starting Jan. 1. Plus, the government says people can get the full credits from dealers regardless of how much they owe in federal taxes. The vehicles have to qualify under guidelines spelled out in the law, and buyers’ incomes have to fall below limits.
Hannity Boasts About His Father Beating Him With A Belt
On Thursday, Sean Hannity mocked The View host Sunny Hostin for calling Rep. Jim Jordan a “terrorist” and saying he screamed at and terrorized her.
“The poor little snowflakes got offended that somebody actually, you know, raised their voice slightly,” Hannity said. He put up his hands in mock horror, adding, “Oh, the shame of it.” I can assure you that if Rep. Hakeem Jeffries or AOC had terrorized a Republican, Hannity would have had quite a different take.
Next, Hannity gratuitously brought up his father hitting him with a belt – and suggesting that everyone should go through such a character-building experience: “By the way, my father would hit me with a belt. I didn’t actually raise my voice,” he said. “We used to be the land of the free, home of the brave. When did we become the land of the snowflake?”
This is far from the first time I have heard Hannity talk about his father beating him. Mediaite noted that he once said, “My father punched me in the face when I talked back to him once, and I deserved it.”
That tells you a lot about Hannity.
Sam Altman backs teens’ startup, Google unveils the Pixel 8 and TikTok tests an ad-free tier
Hiya, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s digest of the past week in tech news. It’s TC’s column that highlights the major stories over the past few days, and — we humbly submit — it’s a darn useful resource for folks on the go. This week, we cover Sam Altman backing a […]
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Friday, 6 October 2023
Artists across industries are strategizing together around AI concerns
As creative industries grapple with AI’s explosion into every artistic medium at once, separate calls from artists warning the world to take action before it’s too late are starting to converge. From fake Drake songs to stylized Instagram profile pictures, art conjured with newly sophisticated AI tools is suddenly ubiquitous — and so are conversations […]
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a16z-backed fintech Synapse lays off 40% of its staff
Banking-as-a-service startup Synapse confirmed today that it has laid off 86 people, or about 40% of the company. The San Francisco-based company, which operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services, has been open about past layoffs. In June, CEO Sankaet Pathak wrote in a blog post that the company […]
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EV buyers can soon get the $7,500 tax credit at time of purchase
Starting in January, the IRS will make the $7,500 federal EV tax credit available immediately via dealers. The Treasury Department announced the update on Friday, noting that dealers will have the option to “reduce the purchase price of the vehicle or provide cash to the buyer.” The update also applies to buyers taking advantage of […]
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Electric seaglider startup Regent takes flight with $60M in new funding
The promise of electric aviation has been weighed down by the limited range of batteries and the long certification process. Regent co-founder and CEO Billy Thalheimer, who previously worked at Aurora Flight Sciences, has looked to maritime — and more specifically, electric seagliders — for the answer to these two challenges. “How can we do […]
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Biden Perfectly Responds To Idea Of Jim Jordan Being Speaker
One of the eleventy bazillion things I didn't like about Trump was that he would lash out at reporters -- usually, women reporters trying to do their job. He would yell at them. Some people are triggered by someone yelling -- lashing out in a heartbeat at the most innocuous things.
President Joe Biden showed us how it's done after he was asked about the idea of Rep. Jim Jordan becoming the next Speaker of the House since Trump endorsed him.
"President, former President Trump endorsed Congressman Jim Jordan for House Speaker," a reporter said. "Could you see yourself working with Congressman Jordan if he is the next Speaker? And do you have any concerns about who might fill that position?"
Biden yelled at the woman, saying, "Fake news. You are the enemy of the people!"
Biden chuckled, which is a perfect initial response, and then he showed us how to President.
"Look, whoever the House Speaker is, I'm going to try to work with," Biden said. "They control half the Congress. And I'm going to try to work with them."
"For some people, I imagine it's going to be easier to work with than others," he added. "But whoever the speaker is, I'll try to work with."
Critics say that Biden has been in politics too long. Well, Trump had zero political experience, and he's been caught sharing our country's secrets for flexing purposes, as if it was Show And Tell time at Mar-a-fucking-Lago.
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Pack away your mittens, startup winter is over
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Thursday, 5 October 2023
Stoke Space raises $100M Series B as it looks to reach orbit by 2025
Stoke Space is flying high. Fresh on the heels of a successful test of its reusable second stage, the four-year-old startup announced today that it closed $100 million in new funding led by Industrious Ventures. This newest round of funding included participation from the University of Michigan, Sparta Group, Long Journey, and other investors. Existing […]
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Trump Already Claiming Dems 'Trying To Steal 2024 Election'
With more than a year to go until the 2024 presidential election, top advisers to former U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign on Monday night claimed without evidence that the Democratic Party is trying to "steal" the election, echoing the lies spread before the 2020 election that fueled the violent January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump campaign officials called on the Republican National Committee (RNC) to "immediately cancel" the third GOP debate, which is scheduled to take place in Miami on November 8 and which Trump has indicated he will not attend, just as he skipped the first two primary debates.
Senior advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita called on the RNC to essentially terminate the primary election and "end all future debates in order to refocus its manpower and money on preventing Democrats' efforts to steal the 2024 election."
Lawsuit alleges discriminatory pay schemes at SpaceX
SpaceX is facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that the company pays women and minority employees less than their white and male colleagues. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court by SpaceX engineer Ashley Foltz, who says she was hired at a salary of $92,000, even though men with similar […]
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'That Would Be Crazy!': Doocy Fantasizes Dems Would Help Elect Trump Speaker
As we've already discussed here, Republicans with the help of some propagandists in the media have been floating the notion that Trump should run for House Speaker now that the chaos caucus has ousted Kevin McCarthy. But, as we've also discussed here, and as The New York Post finally admitted this week, there's one little problem with that, which is that House rules don't allow it.
On this Thursday's Fox & Friends, cohost Steve Doocy also finally admitted that the rule about felony indictments would prohibit Trump from being elected Speaker unless they change it, and, in keeping with the tradition we've seen from them that Chris Hayes just discussed the previous evening, which is Republicans and the right constantly trying to blame Democrats for the problems they create, Doocy floated the notion that Democrats would all vote for Trump if someone put his name into nomination, because they're the ones that supposedly want chaos just to Republicans to look bad.
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Following the SBF trial, 3AC arrest and Q3 web3 funding drops
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. The SDNY is becoming a second home for me because the highly anticipated trial for Sam Bankman-Fried has begun. If you need it, we’ve got a refresher for you.
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Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Three weeks later, investors still not terribly enthusiastic about the massive Cisco-Splunk deal
Three weeks after the Cisco announced a massive $28B acquisition of Splunk, investors still seem less than enthused about the deal.
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Keep Labs’ smart storage redefines medication management
Keep Labs built a lockable storage container for medicine, and it doesn’t matter if the meds come in bottles, boxes, or dime bags. The Keep is designed to hold them safely and track their use. The company launched in 2019, won – and lost– an innovation award at CES 2020, and this week started shipping its […]
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Oh Great Jim Jordan Is Running For Speaker
Jim Jordan tossing his hat in Qevin McQarthy's former ring? Is he even qualified?
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Mark Levin: I Will Blame Gaetz If We Lose The Next Election
LOLOLOL Let them fight.
Mark Levin addressed Rapey McForehead on the Levin Radio program Monday:
MARK LEVIN (HOST): ...Who is it that's representing the Democrats in Congress? It's you, Matt. You need to put your country ahead of your own personal hatred. Man, you gotta get control of it, brother. But he won't. And so, this is what we're gonna hear for the next two, three, four, five, six weeks over and over and over and over again.
Not the Democrats on defense in the House. Not the Democrats blamed for spending. Not the Democrats blamed for an open border. Not the Democrats blamed for climate change. You won't hear about any of that.
And the Democrat Party media loves this because this is what they're gonna headline day in and day out and day in and -- and this, apparently, is what Gaetz wants. So, if we lose the next election, in part, it's on these guys. And I don't just mean the House and the Senate. I mean the presidency. I'm serious about this!
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In latest Cruise incident, video shows pedestrian struck by human-driven car, then run over by robotaxi
The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an October 2 incident that left a woman stuck underneath a Cruise robotaxi after being hit by a human-driven vehicle. Video captured by Cruise and viewed by TechCrunch shows a robotaxi braking and then running over a pedestrian who is laying in the street after being struck by […]
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7 companies to provide NASA with commercial satellite imagery under $476M contract
Umbra, Capella Space and GHGSat are among the seven companies that will provide NASA with commercial satellite imagery, part of an acquisition program that has a maximum potential value of $476 million across all providers. The contract duration is five years, with an option to extend it by six months. Maxar’s intelligence division, PlanetIQ, Spire […]
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US lawmakers ask TikTok about its ByteDance ties after recent exec transfers between the companies
U.S. lawmakers have written a letter to TikTok questioning its independence from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, in the wake of a recent report from The Wall St. Journal that noted that several high-level executives had been transferred from ByteDance to TikTok, where they took on top roles across the organization. The report noted the […]
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Monday, 2 October 2023
Elon Musk’s X Corp faces trademark lawsuit from social media ad agency
When Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X this summer, there were concerns that the new company could face trademark lawsuits as there were nearly 900 active U.S. trademark registrations that cover the letter and branding “X” across various industries, according to comments made by trademark attorney Josh Gerben, speaking to the press at the time. […]
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SBF’s trial promises to be just as riveting as the rest of the FTX drama
'If the SBF trial starts to look like the crypto equivalent of an organized crime trial, don’t be surprised.'
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Matt Gaetz Rips Into Republicans And Is Right For Once
For once in his miserable life, Florida Man Matt Gaetz is correct about something. Republicans have been trying to claim that President Joe Biden is old and "feeble" while also claiming that he's an evil mastermind who stole the 2020 election from naive and unsuspecting Donald Trump and his supporters and planned the plot out so well that he allowed Republican down-ballot candidates in states Joe cheated to carry, to win even though it would cost the Democrats seats in the House -- He did all of this while pretending to be 'Sleepy Joe.'
Meanwhile, Trump is only three years younger; somehow, age isn't an issue with conservatives regarding the former President. Well, now it's settled. Thanks, Matt Gaetz.
"So, let me get this straight," Gaetz said. "To extend Joe Biden's spending and Joe Biden's policy priorities, the Speaker of the House gave away to Joe Biden the money for Ukraine that Joe Biden wanted."
"It is going to be difficult for my Republican friends to keep calling President Biden feeble while he continues to take Speaker McCarthy's lunch money in every negotiation," he added.
I'm not sure what Rep. Forehead means about Ukraine, but more Republicans want financial assistance for Ukraine than don't. It's only that pro-Putin faction of the Republican Party -- the Crybaby Caucus. And now, Republicans are looking to oust Gaetz from Congress. And Gaetz is trying to oust McCarthy. Fight amongst yourselves, guys.
It does look like McCarthy and Biden could negotiate a deal, though.
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IronNet, founded by former NSA director, shuts down and lays off staff
IronNet, a once-promising cybersecurity startup founded by a former NSA director and funded by cyber and defense investors, has shuttered and laid off its remaining staff following its collapse. In a regulatory filing published Friday, IronNet’s president and chief financial officer Cameron Pforr said the company had ceased all business activities as it prepares for […]
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Sunday, 1 October 2023
Procurement is painful, so Pivot wants to simplify it
Earlier this year, a big French tech company started requiring an email to the CEO for every purchase above €1,000. That’s because they didn’t have the right tool to manage procurement. Meet Pivot, a new French startup that wants to overhaul spend management solutions. Pivot wants to work with young companies that are growing fast […]
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GOP: Evidence? We Don't Need No Stinking Evidence!
Stella Magz takes Lauren Boebert a lesson on what evidence actually is. She then went on to give Boebert examples of what evidence is and what it isn't, using some examples that were "handy." (See what I did there?!) But, as a caveat, I must warn everyone not to hold their breath in the expectation that Boebert is able to understand, much less remember, the lesson. The evidence points to the opposite being true.
Open thread below....
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Buttigieg Takes A Sledgehammer To Trump In The Most Polite Way Ever
Gen. Mark Milley, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he will take "appropriate measures" to protect himself and his family after the twice-impeached one-termer suggested that he is guilty of treason, and said he should be executed. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was interviewed on Inside with Jen Psaki, and he calmly and nicely called out Donald Trump over his disdain for the military. Buttigieg is like the most polite sledgehammer ever.
"The level of disrespect for the American military, not to mention for the general, is both shocking and not shocking," Buttigieg said. "I mean, look, this is part of a lifelong pattern with the former president that I would argue was first displayed when he faked a disability in order to avoid having to go to Vietnam and allowed, I assume, some working-class person to go in his place, and has continued ever since."
"Made a name for himself by basically saying that he did not respect John McCain because he was a war hero," he continued. "And look, a lot of this, obviously, is to get attention, and you hesitate to reward that. On the other hand, we do, in fact, still have some boundaries that matter in this country."
"And one of them is that our regard for the military and our respect for the military is nonpartisan, it's nonpolitical, and it's universal," he said. "And that is especially important because that's part of how the military does their job."
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