A number of companies say it disenfranchises some voters. Some, such as Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola, are based in Georgia, where state lawmakers have the power to raise state taxes. Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said in a public memo that his decision to speak out was informed by discussions with leaders and employees in the Black community.
The companies criticising the law so far represent a sliver of the US business landscape. Yet they are part of a growing group of companies shedding their reluctance to speak out on politically controversial social issues that matter to many of their employees and customers globally, business leaders interviewed by
Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked with the US Army on the prototyping phase of what is called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS. The company said the US Army had moved into the production phase of the project.
In a blog post, Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman said the headsets are designed to deliver enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios .
The headsets will be manufactured in the US, according to the Microsoft spokesman.
This is not the first time Microsoft has worked with military to develop AR capabilities.
In 2019, the British Army began trialling HoloLens 2 headsets with 1,500 military personnel to help frontline medics carry out operations in war zones. The devices are programmed to send instructions to those providing emergency medical treatment on the ground from specialists anywhere in the world.
Volkswagen, whose shares rose as much as 3.8 per cent, did not specifically say how much the plan will cost. It said in December that it planned to spend €35 billion ($41.7bn) on e-mobility as a whole by 2025.
The group had been a laggard on electrification until it admitted in 2015 to cheating on US diesel emissions tests and had to deal with new Chinese quotas for electric vehicles. It now has one of the most ambitious programmes in the industry.
Volkswagen said the European factories will have a joint production capacity of up to 240 gigawatt hours (GWh) a year, adding the first 40 GWh would come from Sweden s Northvolt, with production starting in 2023.
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Hollywood superstar Robert Downey Jr and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani landed on the list of nominees this weekend for the 2021 Razzie Awards, an annual shaming of what voters consider the year s worst films and performances.
Downey Jr was in the running for worst actor for playing the title role in
Dolittle, a movie remake about a doctor who can talk to animals.
Dolittle, released by Comcast Corp s Universal Pictures, tied for the most Razzie nominations with six overall, including worst picture. It will compete with Netflix s Polish drama
365 Days, which also received six Razzie nods. Robert Downey Jr poses at a special screening of Dolittle in London. Reuters