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Porsche’s Mission E all-electric vehicle becomes the ‘Taycan’
The Taycan has been dubbed the "Tesla-slayer" by some automotive journalists. The company also marked the occasion by revealing a 911 Speedster Concept, an open-top version of its iconic sports auto. The vehicle was known as the Mission E since the unveiling of the concept in 2015, but it was always known that the production version will most likely feature a name that works with Porsche's current naming scheme.
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Microsoft sinks data center off Scottish island
Over the next year, all aspects of the data center, including power consumption and internal humidity levels, will be monitored by the team. There, another partner, the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), provided help including the undersea cable linking the centre to the shore.
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Commerce Secretary: US reaches deal with China's ZTE
Ross insisted that ZTE deal was an enforcement matter, separate from trade. The two countries have threatened to impose tariffs on up to $200bn worth of each other's products in a dispute over China's tactics to supplant U.S. "The total deal is $1.4 billion". A US-appointed compliance team will monitor the arrangement, which if broken will see ZTE surrender the $400 million and be banned from the United States component market for ten years.
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Data from 92 million accounts stolen from DNA testing site MyHeritage
MyHeritage learned of the breach only after the researcher, who was not named, contacted the company's chief information security officer, Omer Deutsch. Credit card information, for example, isn't stored on the website but with trusted third-party payment processors like BlueSnap and PayPal. MyHeritage said it will hire an independent cybersecurity firm to help probe the breach and provide recommendations about how to prevent security lapses going forward.
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Yakima Valley apple farmers brace for 20 percent Mexico tariff
That move unleashed fury in the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations and prompted quick retaliation from Canada and Mexico and a promise from the European Union to do so as well, unnerving investors who fear a trade war that could derail the global economy.
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Tesla rallies with Model Y in the mix
The news is welcome to electric bike makers, including Harley-Davidson CEO Matt Levatich, who has said the company remains on track to bring its first-ever electric bike to market in 2019. Musk said that it is important that the sports vehicle is better than its gasoline-powered rivals in every way, in order to prove the superiority of electric cars.