Tesla Joins Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, as Company Valuation Break The $1 TRILLION Mark - The 100,000 Vehicle Order That Made It Happen...

Tesla hit a $1 trillion market cap today following news that Hertz car rental is ordering 100,000 cars to buildits electric vehicle rental fleet.

The company joins trillion-dollar market cap companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.

The deal will bring in a reported $4.2 billion for Tesla  - this is the largest purchase of electric vehicles, ever...

News of the deal brought Tesla’s stock to $1,028 by midday, a new record high - a gain of about 13%.

Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas raised his price target on Tesla to $1,200 a share from $900 on Sunday. Jato Dynamics said Monday that Tesla’s Model 3 electric sedan became the first fully electric vehicle to top new car sales overall in Europe in September.

The deal with Hertz, which will bring in a reported $4.2 billion for Tesla, is the largest ever purchase of electric vehicles, Bloomberg previously reported.

The cars are set for delivery within the next 14 months and will be available to US customers as early as November.

The deal comes more than a year after Hertz filed for bankruptcy protection during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as demand for travel and rental vehicles waned.

But now they have new backing, and an agressive comeback plan as Knighthead Capital Management and Certares Management takes over the company.

Video courtesy of CNBC

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Teachers And School Admin Begin A New Aggressive Online Safety Program, Learning How To Track Down Bullies, and Stop Cyber Attacks...

The Partner Schools Global Network (PSGN) are giving schools support by training teacher and administrative the importance online child protection awareness and cyber well-being. They provide services such as the Online Safety Program, which helps schools to prepare for and respond to cyber crime attacks and identify risk indicators. 

For the first time ever, a school has a secure portal to identify and respond to cyber attacks. Letting all online bullies and trolls to stay far away, we know who you are. 

Communicating online is a great way for children to build social connections, share thoughts and ideas, while learning about their interests. With this pandemic, children's social life have been set to a halt , while online harassment, bullying and cyber harassment are increasing at an alarming pace. Their goal is to create a safe place for kids, which allows parents to keep track of their kids' online activities.

Without over bearing control over the content of online media, kids would be exposed to even more damaging cyber threats.

Parents have found it challenging to suprvise their children online while keeping the idea of privacy alive, since there are numerous ways to harass and stalk kids online. Tragic incidents in the world have made us more aware of how real this online, "make believe" world full of trolls, catfishes, even some scammers is, more alive than it ever has been in the world before.

Truth is, as time continue to go, it will only become more and more present, even apart of ever aspect of daily life task, with inventions like AR, VR, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Watching the amount of our children's friends dwelling away from sleep over to, text them at the dinner table, online chat rooms.

Technology surely isn't going anywhere. If anything, we will become totally dependent on these technologies, which are only becoming more and more powerful. With enlightened knowledge , we can truly feel connected. Be sure you take advantage of all the ways to protect your child online. Overall, we need to adapt technology to our lives in a manner that is both secure and sustainable.

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Author: Kirsten K. Knoll

Palo Alto Newsroom
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SpaceX Has Made NASA 'Cool' Again For A Whole New Generation....

NASA reached peak cool on July 20th, 1969 when it sent the first men to the moon. However, the agency's impact on society goes far beyond space.

That's why until recently, for teens any exciting first hand stories about what NASA had accomplished, were stories told by their grandparents. 

. But Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famous astrophysicist, says NASA partnering with Elon Musk's SpaceX is one of the biggest advancements the agency has made since the moon landing.

Video courtesy of CNBC

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Tesla's Position As The #1 Electric Car Faces It's First Real Threat, As Competitors Develop New Solar Powered EVs...

80 million cars powered by fossil fuels were sold last year. 

Many Tesla owners charge their cars at home, often unknowingly thanks to a coal burning power plant. 

Now meet "Lightyear"  - a startup developing a truly green electric vehicle, solar-powered.

Video Courtesy of Vice News

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XBox Series X First Look At The Specs...

Xbox Series X is here with full impressions of the preview console and its very first optimized games with support for 120Hz, like Dirt 5 and Gears 5. Impressive backwards compatibility performance and Quick Resume are still the console's initial standout features, but does that warrant a day-one purchase? Stay tuned for a full review of the final hardware with the full Xbox Series X specs in the coming weeks as people await the pre-order date launch.

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New Tech Allows For Containers That Contained Hazardous Materials To Be Recycled!

High-density polyethylene is one of the most frequently used plastics in the manufacture of containers for the storage of hazardous substances. After their use, these containers are classed as hazardous waste. In order to recycle them, any remaining hazardous residues must first be eliminated.

In Europe, traditional cleaning systems involve a three-step cleaning and rinsing process that is applied to the ground plastic waste, known as triple washing and rinsing procedure. The process uses large quantities of water, a large amount of energy, chemical cleaning products. This procedure thereby generates a large volume of wastewater that requires subsequent treatment. At the end of this process, the ground plastic material is free of hazardous substances and ready for use, yet the aggressive nature of this cleaning procedure usually undermines the quality of the plastic itself. This is why this treated plastic is often used in applications of low added value. 

LIFE EXTRUCLEAN: Project was launched in order to mitigate the drawbacks of this conventional recycling process, improve the final quality of the plastic and enable the material to be used in its original application.

LIFE EXTRUCLEAN: is a European project involving five Spanish companies, which have joined forces to develop a more efficient decontamination and recycling process for polyethylene plastic packages that have contained hazardous substances.

This technology is based on the use of supercritical carbon dioxide; supercritical fluids have been successfully used by the food, wood and leather industries in extraction processes. Supercritical carbon dioxide is inert, inexpensive, highly-available and is not harmful to the environment. It has also been shown to be highly efficient in the removal of hazardous substances, arising from organic solvents and pesticides. This makes this technology perfect for the removal of contaminating substances.

In the LIFE EXTRUCLEAN process, two of the three washing and drying stages, used on the traditional decontamination methods have been eliminated, employing supercritical carbon dioxide at the extrusion stage during the polyethylene recycling process. 

This new process reduces water consumption, the use of cleaning agents and energy use. It results in less wastewater and its associated sludge. After being used, the CO2 is purified and reused in the cleaning process, preventing further emissions into the atmosphere. Because carbon dioxide is an inert gas, most of the mechanical properties of the decontaminated plastic are conserved. This means that it can be reused in applications calling for better quality plastic, such as in manufacture of new containers for hazardous materials.

These helps to close the life cycle of these plastic materials. At the pilot plant scale, this new technology was found to be nearly 70 % more effective than other traditional decontamination procedures. 

These results will be corroborated at the last phase of the project, where the process will be applied at the industrial scale.

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Author: Pike Murry
Toronto Newsroom

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iPhone 12 Full Details Announced - Everything You Need To Know...

Apple's event unveiled the iPhone 12, which is their first 5G phone, along with the iPhone 12 Mini, and two iPhone 12 Pro models. 

Camera upgrades include a super wide lens, f1.6 aperture, and Night Mode on all cameras and the announcement of "MagSafe" a new charging system that automatically snaps onto the back of your phone. 

Other releases included the new HomePod mini and new features like Intercom.

[Video courtesy of Tech Insider]

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