© Reuters. (Reuters) – Rare earth producer Lynas Corp (AX 🙂 said Monday that it signed a contract with the US Department of Defense to begin initial design work on its Texas rare earth separation heavy facility for which the Pentagon is providing seed funding. The ‘Phase 1′ funding is …
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Massachusetts reports 19 new coronavirus deaths, 273 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday
Massachusetts health officials announced that 19 more people have died from coronavirus, bringing the statewide death count to 8,310 since the pandemic began. State Department of Public Health officials also confirmed an additional 273 cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in the community to at least 108,380. …
Read More »Global prospects weaken for China’s tech champions as big powers collide
SHANGHAI / BEIJING (Reuters) – The global ambitions of Huawei Technologies founder Ren Zhengfei are marked in brick and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas of European cities. Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, the operator of the short video app TikTok, has …
Read More »Mexico says death toll increased 55% for March-June amid outbreak
(Bloomberg) – © Bloomberg A worker takes a buyer’s temperature before entering a market in Querétaro, Mexico, on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. The number of deaths confirmed by the coronavirus outbreak in Mexico is 40,400, as of 7:30 a.m. am, Mexico City, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University …
Read More »Can German efficiency keep up with Shanghai speed? (Video) – Elon Musk Chimes In
Cars Published in July 26, 2020 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland July 26, 2020 by Dr. Maximilian Holland I’m thinking it’s time to regularly monitor construction progress at Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory in Berlin, and harness the competitive spirit of the German psyche. We saw incredible construction speed in Gigafactory Shanghai …
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