Image: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Tesla is opening up its charging system, but not in the way that helps people who own electric vehicles that aren’t Teslas. The automaker is renaming its Tesla connector the “North American Charging Standard” (NACS) and is pitting it against the current CCS combo charging standard. CCS is…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the European Patent Office issues the results of a study showing that 13.2% of European inventors between 1978 and 2019 were women; the Supreme Court disappoints the life sciences community by dismissing the cert petition in Juno Therapeutics, but grants cert in Amgen v. Sanofi and Abitron Austria…
The Leica Leitz Phone 2. [credit: Leica ] Meet the Leica Leitz Phone 2, a phone from the famous German camera manufacturer that is exclusive to… Japan? If smartphones are eating into the camera market, it makes sense that some camera companies would try to go the other way. Leica is not a smartphone company,…
Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) Confidence in Twitter has hit what might be an all-time low just two weeks into Elon Musk’s tenure as owner. Yesterday on a call, Musk told Twitter staff that bankruptcy is a real possibility, as next year Twitter could face billions more in losses. The Verge posted…
Enlarge / Advocates held a vigil in September 2019 outside of Eli Lillys’ offices in New York City, honoring those who have lost their lives due to the high cost of insulin and demanding lower insulin prices. (credit: Getty | Erik McGregor) Social media platform Twitter has been mired by uncertainty and disorder in the…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is the definition of a company man. In an age when people switch jobs frequently, he has been at Amazon for 25 years, working his way up to president and CEO. But before he reached the corner office, he helped build Amazon Web Services, its cloud arm, into a $60 billion…
Tesla is sharing its EV charging connector design in an effort to encourage network operators and automakers to adopt the technology and help make it the new standard in North America. Tesla said in a blog post Friday that its design and specification files are available for download. The company said it is “actively working…
Hoping that crypto winter may have been coming to an end? Well, don’t get your hopes up. One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges has just filed for bankruptcy. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) In a press release on Friday, FTX officially announced that the company would be filing for bankruptcy….
Elon Musks’s reign of Twitter terror now extends to one of the largest factions on the site: K-pop fans. This year’s MAMA Awards, an annual Korean music awards show hosted by Mnet, a channel owned by massive Seoul-based media conglomerate CJ ENM, says voting for two categories has been affected by “internal changes within Twitter.”…
Russian users will soon be unable to connect to the VPN service offered by Kaspersky. The Moscow-based company has announced it is set to halt the operations and sales of its Secure Connection VPN, assuring users that the process will be staged gradually to have as little impact as possible. The company’s free VPN version…