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Tesla will build Cybertruck factory in Austin, Texas

The Verge

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. The company was also considering Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Musk said Tesla would “strongly consider” it for future projects. Nashville, Tennessee was reportedly an early candidate , before Austin and Tulsa ultimately emerged as the finalists. Construction work is “already underway,” Musk said. “It

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Austin approves tax breaks for Tesla in bid for Cybertruck factory

The Verge

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. Austin is one of the two leading candidates for the factory, which is where Tesla will build the Cybertruck, along with Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tesla has zeroed in on a 2,100 acre site near the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, and the company has an option to buy the land for $5 million.

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Ford nabs $884 million incentive package for EV ‘mega campus’

The Verge

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. The state will commit $200 million for road construction around the site and $138.2 Another $40 million will go to building a Tennessee College of Applied Technology site near the campus, and $5 million is being offered up for legal services. The gambit worked, as Tesla netted a $1.3

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Tesla faces criticism of Elon Musk in bid to bring Cybertruck factory to Texas

The Verge

Photos by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. But Tesla is now focused on bringing the factory, which is where it will make the Cybertruck and Model Y SUVs bound for the East Coast, to two specific places: either Austin, or Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tesla’s considering buying a 2,100 acre site along Texas’ Colorado River. “I

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How Ikea turned flat-pack furniture into a business worth billions

Fast Company Tech

Photo: Ikea] To a degree, most of Ikeas 899 million annual customers probably dont appreciate how the making of a piece of furniture like this credenza is a finely calibrated dance involving design, manufacturing, packaging, and assembly, with each element influencing the others in equal measure. We never say no.

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Are TikTok activists actually shutting down Trump’s online merch stores? An investigation

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Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. But while the attack has become a kind of resistance meme, reminiscent of recent pranks on the president’s Tulsa rally, it’s far less clear whether the hoax actually prevented Trump’s stores from selling merchandise. But other site visitors can still put the items in a different cart.

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The Facebook boycott advertisers have the right company but the wrong diagnosis

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales. Each day journalists bring a fresh set of stories about bad posts found on the site: Boogaloo groups , repackaged racist fear-mongering , Holocaust denial , and so on. Mary Jo Laupp made the viral TikTok video urging people to reserve tickets to President Trump’s rally in Tulsa — and then not show up.