Originally Posted by Rain Man:
I've got a smidge of money in Editas, and it's sat there like a turtle for three or four years. But all of a sudden this week it's skyrocketing. Apparently they're going into clinical trials for gene editing sickle cell anemia into submission.
I don't know if it's too late to get in, but I suspect it's got more positive momentum. It's gone up almost exactly 100 percent in the past seven days.
It wasn't too late to get in, by the way. Up over 40 percent today. [Reply]
Originally Posted by : Apple Targets Autonomous Car for Consumers by 2024, Reuters Says
Apple Inc. plans to build a self-driving car for consumers and is targeting 2024 to produce the vehicle, Reuters reported on Monday.
The company is developing its own battery technology that could reduce the cost of power packs and extend the vehicle’s range, Reuters said, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.
Apple is tapping outside partners for elements of the system, including lidar sensors that provide autonomous cars with a real-time, 3-D view of the world, Reuters added. Apple is also developing its own lidar technology.
There’s still a chance Apple will decide to reduce the scope of its efforts to an autonomous driving system that would be integrated with a car made by a traditional automaker, Reuters reported, noting that it’s unclear which manufacturer would build it for Apple.
Apple has been working on driverless car technology since 2014, but pared back its ambitions from a full-fledged vehicle in 2017, Bloomberg News has reported. Since then, Apple has been working on the underlying autonomous system. The company has been deciding whether to attach this system to its own car, or existing vehicles, or to partner with an established carmaker, Bloomberg News reported earlier this month.
Originally Posted by Infidel Goat:
Will they force you to buy a new one every two years because they build it with intentional battery degradation?
Speaking of the battery, the company Apple has lined up to produce those is QuantumScape (QS), which is partly financed by Bill Gates. Their curve up looks like Everest the last couple of months. [Reply]
Originally Posted by EPodolak:
Speaking of the battery, the company Apple has lined up to produce those is QuantumScape (QS), which is partly financed by Bill Gates. Their curve up looks like Everest the last couple of months.
Adds to watch list, sees they are down 23.10 this morning... [Reply]
The last decade produced endless articles about Why passive investing is bad for some reason. I always thought the voting one was most interesting but Vanguard/Blackrock mostly abstained.
The last couple of years Blackrock has been swinging way more to being activist investors of our passive investments. They released their 2021 Stewardship Expectations and they had a 61% increase in engagements across 2000 global companies last year.
Originally Posted by :
Voting for impact
• Our votes against directors on pay led to changes
by over 80% of companies
• Our votes against directors on diversity led to
improvements by more than 40% of companies
• Companies responded to 75% of shareholder
proposals that attracted over 30% support
If they want to use it, we've sort of indirectly given a few companies a lot of influence over how many public companies operate. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiliConCarnage:
The last decade produced endless articles about Why passive investing is bad for some reason. I always thought the voting one was most interesting but Vanguard/Blackrock mostly abstained.
The last couple of years Blackrock has been swinging way more to being activist investors of our passive investments. They released their 2021 Stewardship Expectations and they had a 61% increase in engagements across 2000 global companies last year.
If they want to use it, we've sort of indirectly given a few companies a lot of influence over how many public companies operate.