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Women fill water from a municipal tank on May 26, 2023 in the Peth Taluka village in India. Ritesh Shukla | Getty Images News | Getty Images Water scarcity is seen as the most significant and potentially most impactful component of the wider climate crisis, and researchers say that large Asian economies like India and

In this article 9866-HK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nio co-founder William Li poses inside a Nio EC7 at the Shanghai auto show on April 19, 2023. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese electric car brand Nio said Monday it is cutting prices for its cars by the equivalent of

The company test fires one of its Ripley rocket engines in Colorado. Ursa Major A pair of Colorado space companies laid off employees this past week, seeking to adapt to the new normal of a tight funding environment. The layoffs came at Ursa Major, which makes rocket engines, and Orbit Fab, a startup aiming to

Gary Gensler, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, takes his seat before the start of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images SEC Chair Gary Gensler stepped up

Darby Dunn, the Vice President of operations at Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Photo courtesy Commonwealth Fusion Systems From March 2009 to December 2018, Darby Dunn held a handful of engineering and production roles at SpaceX. “In one role in particular, my unofficial title was ‘Mother of Dragons,'” Dunn told CNBC in an interview in Devens, Massachusetts.

Fintech executives descend on Amsterdam for the annual Money2020 conference. MacKenzie Sigalos AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — At last year’s Money 20/20 — Europe’s marquee event for the financial technology industry — investors and industry insiders were abuzz with talk about embedded finance, open banking, and banking-as-a-service. As nebulous as these terms may be, they reflected a

In this article AAPL DGX Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple Vision Pro Source: Apple Apple‘s new Vision Pro headset has sparked a resurgence of interest in head-worn computers that immerse users in a virtual world. Engineers have been dreaming about virtual reality since 1968 when a professor at the University of Utah built

Palantir headquarters in Palo Alto, California, US, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir’s boss Alex Karp opposes the idea of a pause in artificial intelligence research, in contrast to an open letter from the Future of Life Institute signed by some of the biggest names in the

In this article GOOG Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, speaks during an event in New Delhi, December 19, 2022. Sajjad Hussain | AFP | Getty Images Google plans to crack down on employees who haven’t been coming into its offices consistently, CNBC has found. The company updated its hybrid

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The logo of the spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel is shown on the display of a smartphone. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images French business planning software startup Pigment has raised $88 million in a funding round led by ICONIQ, the private investment fund that

In this article GME Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In Reddit communities like R/Superstonk or R/BBBY, Chewy co-founder and GameStop Chairman Ryan Cohen is often hailed as a hero, memorialized in face-swap memes or placed at the center of “tinfoil hat” theories. “He is the god figure of the meme-stock community,” said Evan, a

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks with members of the media next to Apple’s new Vision Pro virtual reality headset, during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, June 5, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images On Monday, Apple

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple’s new Vision Pro virtual reality headset is displayed during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, on June 5, 2023. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images It’s been nearly a decade since Apple revealed its last major

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple launched its Vision Pro headset at its annual WWDC event on Monday, ending months of speculation that the Cupertino tech giant was getting ready to launch its own VR or augmented reality product. Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Apple’s mixed-reality headset debut

In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple announced its mixed-reality headset, the Vision Pro, on Monday during its developer conference. The headset is its first major new product since the Apple Watch in 2014. The Vision Pro will allow users to see apps in a new way, in the spaces around

Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s YouTube account is seen on a mobile phone and laptop computer after being restored by Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc, as Google lifted a more than two-year suspension imposed on Trump after the deadly January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot, in Washington, March 17, 2023. Jim Bourg |

Rep. Patrick McHenry, a Republican of North Carolina and ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Republican lawmakers released a draft bill on Friday that would provide crypto assets and exchanges a clearer regulatory plan, allowing digital assets to be

In this article ALB TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Demand for lithium, a key component for electric vehicle batteries, is expected to surge, from 500,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate in 2021 to three to four million metric tons in less than a decade, according to McKinsey & Company. Albemarle, the world’s top producer of this

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks with CNBC on May 16th, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC The sudden departure of Twitter executives tasked with content moderation and brand safety has left the company more vulnerable than ever to hate speech. On Thursday, Twitter’s vice president of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, resigned from the

Rep. Lou Correa (D-CA) questions Intelligence Committee Minority Counsel Stephen Castor and Intelligence Committee Majority Counsel Daniel Goldman during House impeachment inquiry hearings before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill December 9, 2019 in Washington, DC. Doug Mills | Pool | Getty Images A California lawmaker who has opposed efforts to crack down on