Apple will spend $400 million on affordable housing this year
It’s part of the company’s $2.5 billion pledge to combat California’s housing crisis.
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SpaceX has a month to prove Starlink is worthy of rural broadband funding
SpaceX believes it can easily beat the 100-millisecond funding cutoff.
Lime now owns Uber's Jump bike and scooter service
The transportation options will remain in the Uber app
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FCC approves $200 million plan to fund COVID-19 telehealth services
And another $100 million for a three-year telehealth pilot program.
FCC outlines $200 million COVID-19 telehealth plan
And says it won't kick users off of its Lifeline cell phone subsidy program.
Facebook pledges $100 million to support journalism during coronavirus crisis
The grants will support newsrooms around the world during the pandemic.
Trump's next budget could give NASA a huge funding windfall
The money would help fulfill dreams of returning to the Moon.
FCC commits $20.4 billion to help close the rural digital divide
$16 billion will bring high-speed broadband to ‘wholly unserved’ areas.
Twitter will fund development of an open social media standard
CEO Jack Dorsey shared his vision for the Bluesky project.
Bipartisan highway bill proposes $1 billion for EV charging corridors
Another $3 billion could go to reducing highway-related carbon emissions.
Kickstarter has fewer video game projects, and that's a good thing
Video game projects raise less money than they did a few years ago, but more reach their goals.
Maryland is already out of EV tax credits for 2019
The state drained its $6 million fund for EV incentives before the fiscal year began.
MIT suspends its research partnerships with Huawei and ZTE
It cites federal investigations linked to alleged Iranian sanction violations.
Oxford University halts donations and grants from Huawei
It says the decision was based on recently raised “public concerns."
FCC to suspend operations January 3rd unless funding resumes
It will initiate an orderly shutdown mid-day Thursday.
MoviePass' new funding means it isn't going anywhere just yet
Customers watch less than one movie a month these days.
Pentagon pledges $2 billion for AI research
It will fund dozens of research projects utilizing artificial intelligence.
Media giants invest $1 billion in former Dreamworks exec’s ‘NewTV’
Disney, Warner Bros and 21st Century Fox are all backing the video streaming startup.
