Square Accelerates Push to Integrate Small Business Finance
Square’s refresh of its Square Credit Card, which was announced last week, is part of parent company Block’s broader strategy to more closely integrate payments, banking, credit and bill management within its platform, American Banker reported Monday (Aug.…
17), citing its interview with Andrea Raj, head of product for Square …
Square is also working to address the need for businesses to manage ca…
The company is doing so by adding tracking of incoming and outgoing B2…
Autonomous Electric Freight Trucks Scaling Up In Europe
There’s so much attention on robotaxis and so many companies trying to lead this sector, but there seems to be relatively little news on autonomous long-distance trucking.…
That seems somewhat surprising since one would think autonomous long-d…
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Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
Three former SpaceX engineers have switched their attention from making rocket engines to manufacturing steel parts by using AI-driven software and robots.…
Their immediate goal involves establishing a prototype factory that ca…
The startup, called 1872, officially launched on July 22 with a ribbon…
The company is initially focused on automating the manufacturing of st…
US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday released data on the vaccination rates of US kindergarteners in the 2025–2026 school year, revealing that rates have once again decreased from the previous school year.…
Vaccination rates have been slipping since the 2019–2020 school year, …
The latest data shows the US is moving further away from that target.