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  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 10: Rivian electric trucks are seen parked near the Nasdaq MarketSite building in Times Square on November 10, 2021 in New York City. Rivian, an electric truck maker backed by Amazon and Ford, made its debut at Nasdaq going public with an IPO valued at close to $70 billion with 153,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at a public offering price of $78.00 per share. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)Tech

    Rivian faces a tougher road to profitability than Tesla ever did, analysts warn

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  • Billboards in Times Square are reflected in the rear window of a Rivian R1T electric pickup truck during the company’s IPO outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Electric vehicle-maker Rivian Automotive Inc. priced shares in its initial public offering at $78 apiece to raise about $11.9 billion, the biggest first-time share sale this year. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Rivian shares surge 29% after IPO, valuing electric-car maker higher than GM and Ford

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  • The dollar has been on a surprising run, outperforming most of the world’s top currencies. Analysts are divided over whether that strength will hurt Q3 earnings.Finance

    Investor, beware: King dollar is back, and it could slam Q3 earnings

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  • CARDIFF, WALES – JULY 25: Empty shelves at a Sainsbury’s store on July 25, 2021 in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Supermarkets across the UK are emptying of fresh produce and household staples as Brexit Lorry shortages combined with large numbers of staff isolating due to Covid are frustrating efforts to restock shelves. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)Finance

    Help (desperately) wanted: Labor shortages are putting a damper on U.K. recovery hopes

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  • Employees monitor trading prices for Saudi Aramco stocks in the investment branch of the Arab National Bank (ANB) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Saudi Aramco shares surged after its initial public offering, valuing the oil producer at a record $1.88 trillion and lifting Saudi Arabias stock market into the ranks of the worlds largest. Photographer: Faisal Al Nasser/Bloomberg via Getty Images

    Saudi Aramco is the world’s most profitable oil giant. For investors, it’s one big yawn

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  • SHENZHEN, CHINA – 2020/10/05: Cans of Carlsberg beer displayed for sale in a supermarket. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Finance

    Big brewers toast the reopening of bars as sales recover—but your next round may cost you

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  • Pedestrians sit on monument while they eat their lunch near the London Stock Exchange, on so-called ‘Fredom Day’, in the City of London, U.K., on Monday, July 19, 2021. Boris Johnson’s plan to get the U.K. back to normal is in disarray, with Covid-19 cases rising the most in the world and a public outcry over the prime minister’s perceived attempt to dodge isolation rules. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Why the ‘unloved’ U.K. stock market is still singing the Brexit and COVID blues

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  • CHA.09.21.EVgo charging stationMagazine

    The war to charge your electric car is powering up

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  • INDIA – 2021/06/13: In this Photo illustration the Apple IOS Logos seen displayed on an Android phone.Tech

    What is sideloading? Everything to know about tech’s latest flash point

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  • CALIPATRIA, CA – FEBRUARY 19: In an aerial view from a drone, fumaroles are seen in an area of cultivated cattail swamps to mitigate air pollution threat at the Salton Sea on February 19, 2021 near Calipatria, California. As the lake continues to evaporate, particularly since the Imperial Irrigation District sold water which helped sustain the lake level to coastal cities in 2003, its increasing salinity has made it unsustainable for the fish and great masses of white pelicans and other migratory birds that fed on them. As more lake bottom becomes exposed, fine particles of toxic dust are becoming a health hazard to local communities. The Salton Sea, once more popular than Yosemite Valley for its sport fishing and water activities, is the latest in a long cycle of major lakes forming in the Salton Basin through Colorado River floods then disappearing through evaporation through the millennia. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

    GM invests in California lithium project to power its electric-vehicle batteries

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  • 22 January 2021, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Karlsruhe: At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), lithium hydroxide is demonstrated at the Institute of Applied Geosciences (AGW), Department of Geochemistry and Deposit Science. This is to be extracted as an end product from geothermal water. A pilot plant for the extraction of lithium from geothermal water is to be built at the Bruchsal geothermal power plant. (to dpa: “Researchers turn geothermal water from Bruchsal into a lithium source”) Photo: Uli Deck/dpaTech

    How miners of a key electric-car component are trying to go green

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  • RAN.0721.IllustrationMagazine

    Meet the ransomware negotiators you hope you’ll never need

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  • WARSAW, POLAND – MAY 26: Dimitri, a Belarusian activist holds a historical Belarusian flag during a hunger strike demanding for the European Union to apply economic sanctions against the Belarusian Government lead by Aleksandr Lukashenko in front of the European Commission representative office on May 26, 2021 in Warsaw, Poland. The hunger strike of Belarusian activists comes after two days of protest after the Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko deployed a fighter jet to force a Ryanair flight, en route from Athens to Vilnius, to land in Minsk, where authorities removed dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich from the flight. European Union leaders have agreed to set sanctions against Belarus, including banning Belarusian airlines from using the Union’s airspace and airports. (Photo by Omar Marques/Getty Images)International

    Why pariah states no longer fear economic sanctions: Because they’re killing it with crypto

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  • WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY – MAY 10: Fuel holding tanks are seen at Colonial Pipeline’s Linden Junction Tank Farm on May 10, 2021 in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Alpharetta, Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, which has the largest fuel pipeline, was forced to shut down its oil and gas pipeline system on Friday after a ransomware attack that has slowed down the transportation of oil in the eastern U.S. On Sunday, the federal government announced an emergency declaration that extends through June 8th and can be renewed. On Monday, the FBI confirmed that the cyberattack was carried out by DarkSide, a cybercrime gang believed to operate out of Russia. (Tech

    Ransomware gangs show their growing reach after U.S. pipeline is shut down

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  • Nicole Eagan, chief executive officer of Darktrace Ltd., speaks at a tech conference in California in 2019. The British cybersecurity firm is one of several tech firms to list this year in London, breaking a kind of years-long drought. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    London calling: A wave of U.K. tech IPOs aims to disrupt an underperforming stock market

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