Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Thursday that Tesla’s growth is no longer about its electric cars, but its renewable energy components. That could make Elon Musk’s company worth billions, he added. “It’s the main coverage when it comes to electrification and decarbonization. This is no longer about …
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Israel’s coronavirus protests: Netanyahu served a ‘final meal’ of restorers as mounts of chaos
The last protest was on Tuesday night. The next is Thursday night, with more protests scheduled for the weekend. As public frustration grows with the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis, the anger fueling the protests shows no signs of subsiding. The protesters are angry for different reasons, but everything …
Read More »Trump admits virus worsens, press shakes it up anyway
President Trump has now done what his critics have been demanding, focusing directly on the pandemic, offering a negative assessment and no longer insisting that it will magically disappear. And he was still beaten for it. Now the return from the coronavirus briefings was not perfect. He had the feeling …
Read More »America’s eviction bans are ending. That could worsen the spread of the coronavirus.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Last month, when the coronavirus was on the rise in Houston, recently unemployed hospital secretary Ramzan Boudoin received more bad news: He had six days to vacate his apartment for not paying rent. An entrance is seen to the Providence at Champions apartment complex, amid the …
Read More »SpaceX’s upcoming astronaut launch for NASA now points to the end of September
SpaceX’s next manned mission won’t launch next month after all. The crew-1, which will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, had been tentatively attacked by August 30. But the flight will now take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida …
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