Monthly Archives: August 2022

Liz Cheney’s loss in Wyoming is Trump’s biggest primary victory as he tries to purge the Republican Party of his critics

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY). Drew Angerer/Getty Images Rep. Liz Cheney’s primary loss in Wyoming is Trump’s biggest midterm victory yet. Trump had endorsed challenger Harriet Hageman, who defeated Cheney on Tuesday evening. Cheney joins three other House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump and lost their primary bids. Former President Donald Trump strengthened his grip…

Families of 9/11 victims urge Biden to direct $3.5 billion worth of frozen assets to the Afghan people. ‘This is their money, not ours,’ they argue.

Mothers with their babies on a children’s ward at Indira Gandhi hospital receive treatment for malnutrition on August 13, 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Nava Jamshidi/Getty Images President Joe Biden froze $7 billion in funds held by Afghanistan’s central bank in February. Half the funds would go to humanitarian aid, and the rest would go to…

Elon Musk wins access to files from Twitter’s former head of product

Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk’s lawyers notched a partial win this week in their Delaware Court of Chancery standoff against Twitter with a motion requesting information from 22 Twitter employees, or “custodians,” in addition to 41 others that both sides already agreed on for sharing data. Judge Kathaleen McCormick ruled on…

Biden admin says about 20 models will still qualify for EV tax credits

The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday, says that if automakers want their electric vehicles to be eligible for tax credits, they’ll need to have final assembly in North America. The law, which takes effect immediately, ends credits for about 70% of the 72 models that were previously eligible, according…

Google makes robots smarter by teaching them about their limitations

If you’ve used a smart voice assistant such as Alexa, Siri and whatever-Google’s-smart-assistant-is-called, you’ll probably have noticed that the tech is getting smarter every day. Google can wait on hold for you, Siri can speak in a gender-neutral voice and Alexa can read you bedtime stories in your dead grandmother’s voice. Robotics is evolving in…

YC grad QuotaBook raises $11M to scale its equity management platform

QuotaBook, a Seoul-based equity management platform, has raised $11 million in funding led by Elefund, with participation from Access Ventures, Hana Securities and South Korean fintech company Viva Republica. Some of its previous backers, including Draper Associates and Capstone Partners, joined the round. The Korean startup, which graduated from Y Combinator (YC)’s Winter 21 batch,…