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Shuttered auto plants will become EV factories thanks to $1.7 billion Biden program
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The Biden administration announced $1.7 billion to convert endangered or shuttered plants into electric vehicle manufacturing facilities.
Eleven auto factories across eight states that are currently closed or at risk of closing will receive the funding in order to retrofit their operations for EV manufacturing, administration officials said in a call with reporters. The types of goods these factories will produce run the gamut from “parts for electric motorcycles and school buses, hybrid powertrains, heavy-duty commercial truck batteries, and electric SUVs,” the White House says.
“Building a clean energy economy can and should be a win-win for union autoworkers and automakers,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. “This investment will create thousands of good-paying, union manufacturing jobs and retain even more—from Lansing, Michigan to Fort Valley, Georgia – by helping auto companies retool, reboot, and rehire in the same factories and communities.”
“This investment will create thousands of good-paying, union manufacturing jobs”
The money is part of a larger $15.5 billion program administered by the Department of Energy, announced late last year, that seeks to retrofit existing manufacturing facilities into EV and clean vehicle assembly operations. The funding was approved as part of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which was President Biden’s landmark climate legislation.
Some of the factories that will be converted include an idled Stellantis factory in Belvidere, Illinois, that will be converted into an EV assembly plant using $334 million in grant money. (Stellantis and the United Auto Workers union announced an agreement to reopen the factory earlier this year.) Stellantis will also receive an additional $250 million to retrofit its transmission plant in Kokomo, Indiana, for the production of electric drive modules.
General Motors will get $500 million to reconstitute its 25-year-old factory in Lansing, Michigan, into one that will produce electrified models. A Harley-Davidson facility in York, Pennsylvania, will become an electric motorcycle assembly plant with $89 million. And the Blue Bird Corporation, which makes school buses, will get $79 million to upgrade a 600,000-square-foot facility in Fort Valley, Georgia, for the production of electric buses.
One of the preconditions of the grant awards is that the money go toward retaining and creating new union jobs in the auto sector, officials said. Biden made it clear in his statement that the awards “will help ensure the future of the auto industry is made in America by American union workers.” The UAW has endorsed Biden in his reelection campaign.
The president has made EVs a central piece of his climate platform, approving billions of dollars in new spending on consumer incentives for car shoppers and charging station installations. Former President Donald Trump has promised to hit the brakes on Biden’s EV spending if he wins in November, and House Republicans have passed numerous bills to scrap the administration’s EV tax credit program.
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You’ll instantly notice the polygonal shapes making up the roof of the stadium, with the fractured pieces creating a mirror above those seated within the beehive-like setup. The Neom Stadium will be able to hold 46,000 people and “run entirely on renewable energy, generated primarily from wind and solar sources.” Construction is expected to be completed in 2032.
It looks like the stadium’s aesthetic will fit right in with The Line, the 106-mile-long linear city surrounded by reflective walls with a vertical housing system, a high-speed rail, and “100% renewable energy.” Saudi Arabia has been criticized for reportedly using lethal force to clear villages in the path of The Line, as well as concern over the amount of resources that it will need for construction.
Aside from the Neom stadium, Saudi Arabia is planning to build the three-tiered Prince Mohammed bin Salman stadium (pictured above) on the side of a cliff surrounded by colored glass and LED screens. Of course, these are still just renders for now, and the real things could end up looking entirely different.
Our iPhones have become an extension of ourselves, holding our memories, connections and sensitive information.
The sinking feeling of realizing you’ve misplaced your iPhone can be overwhelming, not just because of its hefty price tag but also because of the potential security risks if it falls into the wrong hands.
Fortunately, there are multiple ways to track down your device. We’ll guide you through several effective methods to locate your missing iPhone, ensuring peace of mind and the safe recovery of your valuable device.
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A person trying to locate an iPhone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
Four ways to find a lost iPhone
While you can use most Apple devices to help locate your iPhone, below includes one way to use an Apple device and three ways without an Apple device to find your iPhone.
1. Use iCloud to locate your iPhone
You can log into your iCloud account to use Find My on your web browser to locate your iPhone. Please note you would’ve already had to turn on location services and add your iPhone to Find My in order to use this feature. Below are steps on how to use iCloud to locate your iPhone:
- Type iCloud.com in the search bar of your web browser
Steps to use iCloud to locate your iPhone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
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- Input the email address used to start your iCloud account. This is usually the same email you use for your Apple ID.
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- Input your password (unless you use a passkey)
- There may be a two-step authentication process to verify your identity. You’ll be asked to allow or disallow verification on a secondary device. If so, select Allow. Then, enter the passcode provided on this secondary device.
- Once logged into your iCloud account, scroll down to the App icons at the bottom left of the screen.
- Select the Find My icon.
Steps to use iCloud to locate your iPhone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
- All your Apple devices should be listed on a menu on the left side of the screen.
- Locate your iPhone and click the device icon
Steps to use iCloud to locate your iPhone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
- It should show you a map of approximately where your iPhone is located.
- You can click Play sound if you are close enough to listen for sounds coming from your iPhone, or you can see where it is on the map.
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2. Use Siri to locate your iPhone
If Siri has been enabled on your iPhone and you believe the iPhone is somewhere near you, you can call out ‘Hey Siri’ loudly. It will light up and respond verbally, which will help you locate it.
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Siri on iPhone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
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3. Use Apple Watch to locate your iPhone
Even though it would be using another Apple device, using the Apple Watch is a convenient way to locate your iPhone. This is called the ping feature. To find your iPhone using an Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later:
- Press the Digital Crown to return to the watch face.
- Press the side button (the oval button below the Digital Crown) once to open the Control Center.
- Tap the Find iPhone button in the Control Center. It’s represented by a rectangle with curved lines around it.
- Your iPhone will emit a pinging sound to help you locate it.
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A man using his Apple Watch to locate his iPhone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
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4. Use Google Maps Timeline to locate your iPhone
You can use Google Maps Timeline to view the last known locations of your iPhone if Location Services and Location History are enabled on the device. This can help you identify where your iPhone was last seen. To access this:
- Open a web browser and go to Google Maps Timeline.
- Log into the same Google account used on your iPhone.
- Check the location history to see where your iPhone was last located.
A person using Google Maps Timeline to find their iPhone (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)
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Kurt’s key takeaways
Nothing is more irritating and worrisome than misplacing your iPhone. It is worse if you lose it outside of your home or have it stolen. Even if you don’t own other Apple devices, you can use some of the different methods to locate your iPhone. While it is tempting to recover your iPhone from whoever has taken it, if your iPhone is in the hands of an unknown person, resist the urge to confront them directly and contact local law enforcement instead.
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The good news for Meta is that, unlike pretty much every AI startup, it already makes a lot of money. Last quarter, the company made just over $39 billion in revenue, up 22 percent from a year ago, and about $13.5 billion in profit, up 73 percent. 3.27 billion people use at least one of Meta’s apps every day. That kind of scale and money buys the ability to make big bets, which Zuckerberg is famous for doing.
On Meta’s Wednesday earnings call, CFO Susan Li reiterated to investors that financial returns from its recent AI investments will “come in over a longer period of time.” Zuckerberg was direct about why Meta is spending billions on Nvidia hardware and the other infrastructure ahead of these future returns: “It’s hard to predict how this will trend multiple generations into the future, but at this point, I’d rather risk building capacity before it is needed rather than too late.”
He again telegraphed that the Meta AI assistant is on track to be the most used in the world before the end of the year. While he touted that generative AI features “are things that I think will increase engagement in our products,” he said the real revenue will come from business use cases, like AI creating ads from scratch and letting businesses operate their own AI agents in WhatsApp for customer service.
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