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(Reuters) – Apple Inc said on Wednesday it planned to lay off 190 employees in its self-driving car program, Project Titan, changes that provide a rare window into the automotive technologies the company has been pursuing..... Read more via Top stories – Google News – https://ift.tt/2Tmvy6V...

Three of China’s “Big Four” state-owned banks are the biggest investors in Tesla’s massive Shanghai Gigafactory, making the Chinese state the largest investor in this battery and electric car making enterprise. Construction of the Shanghai Gigafactory will begin in a few months and is being...

Amazon just gave the slip to yet another city. The company has officially listed a sublease for its floors in Seattle’s Rainier Square tower that were to be used as office space, according to a marketing flier obtained by GeekWire...... Read more via Gizmodo – https://ift.tt/2NwIy4w Get...

Stewart Rahr is a pharmaceutical billionaire, self-described "king of all fun" and, as President Donald Trump told a magazine, a real character. Rahr, a fixture on gossip sites, was "the fake bidder" who plunked down $60,000 in 2013 for a portrait of his friend Trump, according to an article...

In long-awaited and explosive testimony before a congressional panel President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen said that as a candidate Trump was aware Roger Stone was working with WikiLeaks to disseminate hacked emails, and that after he took office the president reimbursed …...

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Wednesday told the U.S. Congress that Trump is a `racist,’ a `conman’ and a `cheat.’ Cohen, Trump’s onetime `fixer,’ said Trump knew in advance about a release of emails by the WikiLeaks website … Read more via P.M. News –...