Spencer PlattGetty Images Let’s not pretend that the bipartisan infrastructure deal announced this week will become law as proposed. Washington is too tenuous for that. But at least we have a framework that senators from both sides of the aisle have agreed to. This is a trillion-dollar plan, but it only includes around $579 billion […]
The U.S. House of Representatives this week approved and sent to the Senate a bill intended to form a pilot initiative to use artificial intelligence to vet whether consumer products are safe. H.R. 3723, the Consumer Safety Technology Act, is sponsored by Rep. Jerry McNerney (Dem.), who represents California’s 9th congressional district (including East Bay […]
Aston Martin has already debuted Aston-branded luxury condos in Miami and Los Angeles, and now it’s opening a limited number of freshly designed dwellings in a high-rise in Manhattan’s Financial District. Each of the five Aston units comes with an Aston Martin DBX in chic black. But where to park it? No Manhattan parking space […]
An influential watchdog group said on Thursday that the British government was doing far too little to carry out the ambitious pledges it had made on tackling climate change. Although the government has promised to cut its greenhouse emissions to net zero by 2050, it has failed to take interim steps — such as tax […]
(Image: file photo) Amazon Web Services is acquiring the encrypted messaging app Wickr, the company announced Friday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in 2012, Wickr’s end-to-end messaging service was one of the early pioneers of ephemeral communication, offering encrypted and disappearing messaging long before Signal took off and WhatsApp rolled out […]
Volkswagen In the decade since the Nissan Leaf became the first contemporary, mass-produced electric vehicle, plenty of automakers have jumped on the EV bandwagon with their own EVs or a plug-ins, and self-recharging hybrids like the Toyota Prius are downright commonplace. But so far no major legacy (read: not Tesla) automaker has put all its […]
“Those two things must go hand in hand for it to have my support,” she said. Some Democratic strategists are skeptical about the budget reconciliation route. Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, both Democrats, have balked at voting for a reconciliation bill that has no Republican support. Mr. […]
Cloud computing is probably the biggest business around these days — it has become a $100-billion-a-year industry. And there’s a chance companies are paying way too much for it. Photo: Joe McKendrick That’s the conclusion drawn by Sarah Wang and Martin Casado, partners with Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz Capital Management, who say the costs […]
The INEOS Grenadier SUV will be sent to Kosovo for land-mine-clearing work with the weapons-disposal charity Halo Trust in a testing phase. The automaker intends to build special Grenadiers for demining work once production starts. They’ll be equipped with floor armor and other equipment. The new SUV has been conducting trials this year all over […]
The Biden administration has defended a contentious pipeline project that would carry hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through Minnesota’s delicate watersheds, urging in a court brief that a challenge brought by local tribes and environmental groups be thrown out. The closely watched filing in federal court was the latest in a series of […]