• On November 3, Democratic lawmakers unveiled their new social spending and climate provision that increases the EV tax credit of up to $12,500 for higher prices vehicles
• According to this new update, vans, SUVs, and trucks prices up to $80,000 will be eligible for the full tax credit

Kroger to use automated robots to get groceries to customers

• With the help of UK based company Ocado, Kroger is opening automated warehouses across the United States
• According to Kroger, the robots will help to retrieve bags of items like fruit, meat, and more to speed up the fulfillment of customers’ grocery orders
• Once the groceries are gathered for an order, Korger will have their fleet of delivery drivers drop off the bagged groceries to the customer

NASA wins lawsuit against Blue Origin over SpaceX lunar Lander contract

• According to the US Court of Federal Claims, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin lost against NASA over $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to SpaceX
• In a statement in defense of Blue Origin, its spokesperson said that the company’s lawsuit “highlighted the important safety issues with the Human Landing system procurement process that must still be addressed’

WHO says that Europe is the center of the COVID-19 pandemic once again

• According to the World Health Organization, Europe is facing another spike in COVID-19 cases
• The WHO has two main reasons for Europe’s soaring case numbers which are low vaccination coverage and less strict public health and social measures

Google invests $1 billion into CME, as both sign cloud deal

• Two large tech companies CME Group Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google have made a deal to move Google’s core trading systems to the cloud
• Google will invest a total of $1 billion into this project 

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