🧐 The China model: What the country's tech crackdown is really about
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The China model: What the country's tech crackdown is really about. On the fourth floor of a harborside mall on Grand Cayman, not far from touristy scuba-diving outlets and a jerk-chicken shack, is the offshored home of ride-hailing company DiDi Global Inc., one of China's biggest technology firms. (Austin Carr via Bloomberg)
Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles. The US is slowing moving toward adopting policies that would put more electric vehicles on the road, but for Toyota, it’s not slow enough. The Japanese automaker, which is the largest car company in the world, has been quietly lobbying policymakers in Washington, DC to resist the urge to transition to an all-electric future — partly because Toyota is lagging behind the rest of industry in making that transition itself. (Andrew J. Hawkins via The Verge)
Tesla breaks its own delivery record by building and shipping 200,000 vehicles in Q2. Tesla appears to have shrugged off the production woes it suffered last year during the COVID lockdown with the company announcing a number of 'new and notable records' during its Q2 earnings call on Monday. (Andrew Tarantola via Engadget)
Bezos offers to cover $2 billion in exchange for NASA astronaut lunar lander contract. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover billions of dollars of NASA costs in exchange for a contract to build a lunar lander to land astronauts on the moon. (Thomas Franck via CNBC)
Facebook Explores Integrating Oculus Workouts With Apple Health. Facebook Inc. is exploring the idea of letting users synchronize workout data from Oculus virtual-reality headsets with Apple Inc.’s Health app on iPhones, according to code discovered in the Oculus iPhone app. (Mark Gurman via Bloomberg)
TikTok a Year After Trump's Ban: No Change, but New Threats. Saturday will mark a year since Donald Trump said he would ban the wildly popular and annoyingly addictive short-video app TikTok from millions of US smartphones, citing threats to users' privacy and security posed by its Chinese ownership. (Will Knight via WIRED)
Tencent's WeChat suspends new user registration in China to comply with 'relevant laws and regulations'. Tencent's WeChat said on Tuesday it is temporarily suspending registration of new users in China as it works to comply with “relevant laws and regulations,” the latest Chinese firm to face… (Manish Singh via TechCrunch)
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