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FCC awards $126M for Internet in rural Montana – Now what? Questions remain about final product

The six companies will have six years to make high-speed Internet available to about 46,000 unserved locations in Montana. “If I’m a customer, I might be bothered that the company that neglected me for all these years is now going to be the company that’s going to save me.” Geoff Feiss

Amazon launches Live Translation mode for Alexa

Amazon says that Live Translation can interpret between a number of dialects in real time, including English and French, Spanish, Hindi, Brazilian Portuguese, German, or Italian.

GM’s Barra accelerates by $27 Billion ‘all out pursuit of global EV leadership’

GM plans to increase spending on electric and autonomous vehicles to $27 billion by 2023, up 35% from previous disclosed plans, she said. The automaker also plans to speed the launch of a dozen new electric models.

Full-throttle electric snow bikes quietly tear up Alpine powder

French startup MoonBikes Motors is carving some space between the e-snowmobile and e-dirt bike categories, creating a full-throttle electric snow bike meant to travel lightly and deliver sharp, explosive exhilaration on the snow.

Zoox reveals autonomous ride-sharing boxcar with no steering wheel

“We’re reinventing personal transportation.”

Electric Vehicles and the How They’ll Be a Part of the Power Grid: Roadmaps From California and New York

How utilities and states with the biggest EV ambitions plan to make them a part of a cost-effective, reliable and clean energy-powered grid.

A slice of home: Refugees treat Missoula with home-cooked cuisine

The program offers weekly meals for pickup cooked by a rotating team of refugee chefs and has allowed these chefs to continue to share their food in Missoula, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

Butte,Montana is going Hollywood as more filmmakers work in the Mining City

“My friend Sam Debree came up last night and he goes, ‘we need to make it so that we can impale somebody with a plow,’” said Butte artist Rob McClain.

Toyota to unveil electric car with solid-state battery with 10-min fast-charging next year

The report claims that the new battery will enable 500 km (310 miles) of range and charging in just 10 minutes.

Single gene therapy injection surprisingly boosts vision in both eyes

“We expected vision to improve in the eyes treated with the gene therapy vector only,” says study author Dr Yu-Wai-Man. “Rather unexpectedly, both eyes improved for 78 percent of patients in the trial following the same trajectory over two years of follow-up.”

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