Two men were killed in a crash in Texas while riding in a Tesla car that police said almost certainly had no one behind the wheel, U.S. media reported Sunday. The vehicle was driving at high speed late Saturday north of Houston when it slammed into a tree and burst into flames, the Wall Street...
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The Future is Electric: Why EV Stocks Could Continue To Soar In 2021
While the EV boom has been growing for years, 2021 could be the year electric starts to take over everything. And it could happen much sooner than most people realize, as some of the biggest names are already hopping on board. Amazon has already started making deliveries with electric vans in Los...
Apple will use Tesla Megapack batteries at its solar farm facility
-Apple will use Tesla’s Megapack battery energy storage system at its California solar farm. -The company announced Wednesday it’s building one of the largest battery projects in the country, which will be capable of storing 240 megawatt-hours of energy. -The solar farm will include 85 of Tesla’s...
Why Tesla’s Charging Stations Are A Key Advantage For Its Future
Minneapolis-based venture capital firm Loup Ventures sees charging infrastructure as being a key advantage for Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) to maintain its dominant position, now and in the future. Many investors believe this will favor traditional automakers, but Loup says that's not necessarily the...
Millions of Texans still don’t have broadband access. Some lawmakers are trying to change that.
Although much of the attention is focused in the lack of infrastructure in rural areas, large numbers of urban residents also don't have broadband subscriptions. Four months ago, Argentina Matute had to cut her internet service. After losing her job cleaning at a dentist’s office in Houston early...
Texas power outages force chipmakers to halt production
Business is also feeling the bite from the Texas winter storm, with a number of chipmakers forced to suspend production. Why it matters: Even a brief shutdown of chip production in Texas could exacerbate the global chip shortage that's already reducing production of everything from cars to...
China Used Secret Microchip to Spy on US Computers
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense found thousands of its computer servers sending military network data to China — the result of code hidden in chips that handled the machines’ startup process. In 2014, Intel Corp. discovered that an elite Chinese hacking group breached its network through a...
DFW Infrastructure, Population Continue to Lure E-Commerce Users
With an established intermodal infrastructure, business-friendly policies and a growing population, Dallas-Fort Worth provides a favorable industrial logistics demand dynamic. As a result, industrial real estate has been one of the most resilient real estate sectors amid the COVID-19 crisis,...
Analysis: Texas tries to make the connections on broadband internet
Texans stuck at home need high-speed internet for schooling, for work, for shopping, for medicine, for entertainment — the live, in-person activities we all took for granted a year ago. Sounds simple enough, but there’s a lot to untangle. Of all the things on Gov. Greg Abbott’s list of priorities,...
Innovation Hub at Research Park announces the Texas Tech Innovation Ecosystem Commercialization Roadmap
LUBBOCK, Texas (NEWS RELEASE) — The following is a news release from Texas Tech University: Texas Tech University’s Innovation Hub at Research Park wants to help new startups succeed. To that end, the Innovation Hub and its university partners have created the Texas Tech Innovation Ecosystem...
Samsung seeking over $1B in tax credits for potential semiconductor plant in Austin, Texas
If selected by Samsung, the proposed Austin facility would break ground by Q2 2021 and be up and running by Q4 2023 Samsung is seeking more than $1 billion in tax credits to potentially build a new 7 million-square-foot chip fabrication plant in Austin, Texas. The proposed facility, which is...
Dallas College partners with Amazon to train students in emerging technology
Students live and study in Mesquite for the duration of the program, which takes on average four semesters. Dallas College’s Eastfield campus in Mesquite is working with Amazon to train students in the emerging field of mechatronics technology. As part of the collaboration, students who complete...