El Salvador president Nayib Bukele announced at the Bitcoin 2021 conference a proposal to make bitcoin legal tender in the Central American country. (Photo by Emerson Flores/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images) Getty Images On June 5, at a conference in Miami, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that the Central American country is in the process of adopting…
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The rush to back lidar companies continues as more automakers and robotaxi startups include the remote sensing method in their vehicles. Latest to the investment boom is Hesai, a Shanghai-based lidar maker founded in 2014 with an office in Palo Alto. The company just raised over $300 million in a Series D funding round led…
Apple announced a handful of privacy-focused updates at its annual software developer conference on Monday. One called Private Relay particularly piques the interest of Chinese users living under the country’s censorship system, for it encrypts all browsing history so nobody can track or intercept the data. As my colleague Roman Dillet explains: When Private Relay…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker walks pasts the logo of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) inside its headquarters building in Lima, Peru June 16, 2017. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo LIMA (Reuters) -Peru presidential front-runner Pedro Castillo said on Monday he would respect the autonomy of the Andean nation’s central bank if he wins the…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an annual Memorial Day Service at Veterans Memorial Park, Delaware Memorial Bridge, New Castle, Delaware, U.S., May 30, 2021. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo By Andrea Shalal, Humeyra Pamuk and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s meeting with leaders of the G7 leading industrial economies…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Medical students walk past a Cuban flag as they check door-to-door for people with symptoms amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in downtown Havana, Cuba, May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s top debt negotiator is in France for a critical meeting…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A representation of the virtual cryptocurrency Bitcoin is seen in this picture illustration taken June 7, 2021. REUTERS/Edgar Su/Illustration By Karin Strohecker and Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) -A push by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele to make his country the first in the world to formally adopt bitcoin as legal tender…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louis DeJoy is uninterested in the niceties of Washington. The wealthy longtime businessman with an outer borough New York accent prides himself as a problem solver ready to disrupt an unwieldy bureaucracy. And he’s facing potential legal troubles. In other words, the postmaster general may be the closest thing to former President Donald…
MOSCOW, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Igor Sechin, Chief Executive Officer of Rosneft, delivered a keynote speech at the Energy Panel “Transformation of the Global Energy Sector” at the XXIV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The event, sponsored by Rosneft, was attended by BP CEO Bernard Looney, ExxonMobil Senior Vice President Neil Chapman, CNPC Chairman…





