Ford has made cost-cutting a key piece of its EV strategy as the company works to improve profit margins while meeting what CEO Jim Farley has called “incredible demand” of its new electric vehicle models.

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Wormhole, a popular cryptocurrency platform that offers bridges between multiple blockchains, announced on Twitter that it noticed an exploit.

Blockchain bridge Wormhole confirms that exploiter stole $320 million worth of crypto assets

Hopper, the mobile travel booking startup and app that lets users book flights, hotels, cars, and — most recently — short-term home rentals a la Airbnb and VRBO, has been on a fast pace of growth in the wake of Covid-19 travel restrictions loosening up in the last year, with 70 million downloads to date.

Travel booking app Hopper upgrades its valuation to $5B on secondary sale

SpaceX has a new tier for its Starlink satellite internet service with higher performance but pricing that might make your eyes water, called Starlink Premium, with speeds between 150 and 500Mbps.

SpaceX reveals $500 monthly ‘Premium’ Starlink service with speeds up to 500 Mbps

General Motors said it has secured more than 110,000 reservations for its new all-electric Chevrolet Silverado, which includes reservations from more than 240 fleet operators, Chair and CEO Mary Barra said in the company’s full-year and fourth quarter earnings letter to shareholders.

GM’s Chevy Silverado EV already has 110,000 reservations

Tesla is issuing an over-the-air update to recall a "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) beta feature that allowed cars to roll through stop signs, which appeared in FSD 10.3.

Tesla recalls Full Self Driving feature that lets cars roll through stop signs

Shared e-scooter company Superpedestrian is gearing up to deploy its Pedestrian Defense safety system at scale, a feature that allows the company’s e-scooters to detect and correct unsafe riding behaviors, like riding on sidewalks or the wrong way down a one-way street, in real time.

Superpedestrian gets $125M to expand tech that corrects unsafe scooter riding

The idea behind the company was to get engineers back to spending the majority of their time designing and building hardware products.

AllSpice thinks hardware developers lack their own ‘GitHub,’ so it is building one

Spotify’s Joe Rogan headache is about to get a lot worse. Earlier this week, musician Neil Young announced that he would pull his music from the streaming service to protest Spotify’s relationship with Joe Rogan.

Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young, pulls her music from Spotify over vaccine misinformation

Earlier this month, Google announced that it would kill free Google Workspace accounts that were using the G Suite legacy free edition. As spotted by Ars Technica and following customer backlash, Google has updated its support page and says that it plans to offer more options to existing users. Google Workspace as it exists today […]

Google will let legacy G Suite users migrate to free Google accounts

Amazon must pay $2.25 million and permanently shut down a previously suspended sales program, following an investigation and lawsuit by the Attorney General of Washington alleging it was essentially price-fixing.

Amazon must pay $2M and end program after price-fixing investigation by Washington AG

Jordan Gonen and Jacob Schein had both worked in the tech industry for a few years when they realized they lacked a clear understanding of their own finances.

Compound aims to be a one-stop-shop for tech employees to manage their finances

Small businesses might soon be able to accept payments using their iPhones without extra hardware. Apple could start rolling out the feature through a software update in the next few months.

Apple will reportedly allow iPhones to accept contactless payments

By now, many of us are familiar with the warehouse robots which populate those vast spaces occupied by the likes of Amazon and others. In particular, Amazon was very much a pioneer of the technology.

Paack pulls in a $225M Series D led by SoftBank to scale its E-commerce delivery platform

We all know online reviews must be taken with a grain of salt, but generally you’d like to think that a product with a 4.5-star average is better than one with a 3.5-star average.

FTC fines online shop $4M for hiding reviews below 4 stars

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