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Amazon’s fleet of Rivian-made electric delivery vans is growing. Since first rolling out earlier this year, the retail giant’s new zero-tailpipe emission vehicles have made more than 5 million deliveries in the US, with its fleet-size exceeding 1,000 EDVs (electric delivery vans). That’s still only a fraction of the company’s overall transportation fleet, which is comprised 30,000 Amazon-branded delivery vehicles and 20,000 branded trailers. But the electric-portion is growing, with Rivian eventually expecting to deliver 100,000 vans to the company. That’s still only a fraction of the company’s overall transportation fleetStarting in July, the EDVs first rolled out in Baltimore,…
Ryanair has given further evidence of its strong recovery from the pandemic, swinging to a first-half profit and raising its full-year passenger forecast.Europe’s biggest low-cost airline on Monday reported pre-tax profit of €1.42bn for the six months to September 30, against a €100mn loss in the same period last year.It also forecast a return to full-year profitability for the first time since the start of Covid-19 restrictions. It is expecting post-tax profits of between €1bn and €1.2bn for its 2022-23 fiscal year, with losses in the quieter second half of the year cancelling out some of the first-half profits.The shares…
Devialet, the French audio company best known for its lineup of eye-catching audio gear that looks like Daft Punk helmets, is getting into the portable smart speaker business. Today, it’s announcing the Devialet Mania, a battery-powered speaker that retains the company’s signature sci-fi stylings but in a compact form factor that it says offers 10 hours of battery life at “moderate volumes.” The Mania includes four full-range drivers and two sub-woofers, which Devialet says offer 360-degree sound. But perhaps more interesting is how the speaker adjusts its sound profile based on measurements of your listening space it takes from its four…
Google Cloud is running a validator on the Solana blockchain, according to an announcement from the company. The validator will soon add new features that will allow integration for Solana (SOL) developers and node runners. Following the news on Saturday, SOL rose 12% to around $36.80. It has come back down to $31.51 at the time of writing. Google Cloud announced on Twitter that besides the validator, the tech giant is also working to add its Blockchain Node Engine to the Solana chain in 2023. The Blockchain Node Engine is a “fully-managed node hosting service” that already supports the Ethereum…
European stocks started the week with small gains as markets speculated China would ease its strict zero-Covid stance, even as Beijing insisted its hardline measures would remain in place.The regional Stoxx Europe 600 was up 0.3 per cent in early Monday trading having finished last week 1.3 per cent higher, as investors bet a change in policy would be a boost for mining stocks. The FTSE 100 was flat.Investors welcomed better than expected German economic data. Industrial production rose 0.6 per cent month on month in September, better than the 0.8 per cent decline expected by economists polled by Reuters.…
Binance is liquidating its remaining FTT holdings, according to the crypto exchange CEO Changpeng “CZ”. However, CZ has not clarified the reason behind liquidating FTT – the native token of rival FTX exchange, besides simply stating “recent revelations that have come to light.” “As part of Binance’s exit from FTX equity last year, Binance received roughly $2.1 billion USD equivalent in cash (BUSD and FTT). Due to recent revelations that have came to light, we have decided to liquidate any remaining FTT on our books. 1/4” CZ also took to Twitter to publicly announce that the liquidation is not…
France’s far-right this weekend selected a party leader from outside the Le Pen dynasty for the first time in its 50-year history — the latest sign of the movement’s bid to convince voters it has swapped extremism for professionalism.Before a cheering auditorium, Marine Le Pen announced on Saturday evening that her protégé Jordan Bardella, a 27-year-old member of the European parliament, had won the vote to succeed her at the helm of the Rassemblement National (National Rally). “I will pass on a re-founded and revitalised party . . . that is proving every day that it is a real party of government, the party…
Sibiu, Romania, 4th November, 2022, Chainwire Elrond, the startup building internet scale blockchain technology, announces its transformation into MultiversX. The company thus expands its mission of building the new internet economy to include the digital meta-space frontier. The metaverse-forward company introduces three new products as the pillars for its evolution. xFabric is a sovereign blockchain module, and core blockchain applications. Deployable in minutes. Fully customizable. Including a great set of features and use cases for any creative, brand or company. xPortal is a true SuperApp. The portal to the Metaverse. The home of your avatar. Everything finance. A debit card. Friends, chat…
China’s exports contracted in October for the first time since the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, a sign of mounting pressure on an economy still gripped by strict antivirus measures.Exports in dollar terms fell 0.3 per cent year on year last month, official data showed on Monday, compared with an economists’ forecast of 4.5 per cent growth and a 5.7 per cent gain in September. The figure last fell in May 2020.China’s trade has supported its economy throughout the pandemic. Its exports skyrocketed in 2020 and 2021 as global markets shifted to buying goods rather than services.But the latest…
Vilnius, Lithuania, 4th November, 2022, Chainwire Web3 app WeSleep has launched with the promise of daily rewards for users who pursue a healthy and active lifestyle. Dubbed a sleep-to-earn app, WeSleep utilizes clever tokenomics to incentivize positive behaviors. WeSleep is a sleep-to-earn Web3 app that incentivizes users to pursue a healthy and active lifestyle on a daily basis. • A Sleepie is a unique NFT that can be bought to allow rewards, in the form of $ZZZ tokens, to be passively generated while asleep. These tokens can be swapped to $BUSD using the in-app swap system. Or a user may choose…