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General Motors to Move from Long-Running Detroit HQ Into a New Location Across Town

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General Motors recently announced a move from the Renaissance Center (RenCen), the building it purchased in 1996, to a new location at the Hudson’s Detroit building further north. The automaker will reside on the building’s top two floors, with around 100,000 open square feet across them. million square feet.

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Stellantis Investors Fume Over CEO Pay Amid Job Cuts, Plant Closures, Supplier Strife

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Investors, in particular European ones, are becoming increasingly sensitive to social aspects of corporates [sic],” Charles Pinel, CEO of Proxinvest, told Bloomberg in a recent interview. Legal challenges have also been raised on behalf of the manufacturer.

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Cruise Outsources Review of Regulatory Response

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From Reuters : GM, in a statement Friday, said "we fully support the actions that Cruise leadership is taking to ensure that it is putting safety first and building trust and credibility with government partners, regulators, and the broader community. Our commitment to Cruise with the goal of commercialization remains steadfast.”

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Cleveland City Planners Change Policies to Create 15-Minute City

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Cleveland, Ohio, has approved new zoning and transportation policies that are angling to transform it into the next “fifteen-minute city,” The City Planning Commission voted to move forward with changes to building codes in several pilot neighborhoods it wants to make more pedestrian friendly. But this is but a singular component.

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Driving Dystopia: Automakers Selling User Data for Pennies, Senators Ask FTC to Get Involved

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We also know that algorithms exist to batch data on individual people, which are then sold off to build driver profiles that impact specific people’s insurance rates. But that shouldn’t make you feel any better when the information is still being collected without your permission.

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Shipt’s Algorithm Squeezed Gig Workers. They Fought Back

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I’m a data scientist; I was drawn into the campaign in the summer of 2020, and I proceeded to build an SMS-based tool—the Shopper Transparency Calculator—to collect and analyze the data. Its corporate photographs present idealized versions of happy Shipt shoppers.

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Two-way EV Charging – The Future of Electric Vehicle Power

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Two-way EV charging will reduce that even further- using EV batteries to power homes (vehicle-to-home V2H), buildings (vehicle-to-building V2B) or feed it back to the grid with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. First name * Last name * Company name * Corporate Email *. Contact us to learn more.