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☆ Dan Jones Turned to Fiction After Dinner With George R.R. Martin
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There are no books actually on the night stand — just a clock, lamp and photo of my daughters. But beside it is a wobbly pile of 21 volumes (I just counted), and a smaller tower of almost as many again. Each summer I rent a house in a village in the foothills of the White Mountains in Crete. There is one bougainvillea-shaded taverna, which shares the village square with a tiny Byzantine chapel, decorated with magnificent 14th-century frescoes. I sent Alice fan mail to say so, and we ended up on the phone for an hour talking about medieval beards.

Persons: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “, ” There’s, Jack Reachers, Thucydides, Walter de la, Kostas, Alice Winn’s, “, ”, Alice Locations: Peloponnesian, Crete

☆ Southeast Asia is on the cusp of a 'supercharged' digital payments revolution, PwC says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Sheila Chiang | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Widespread mobile ownership, together with rapid digitalization after the pandemic, helped spur the expansion of digital financial services in Southeast Asia, said PwC. PwC"This enhanced availability and convenience of digital payments will see the bulk of the regional population leveraging mainstream digital financial products, such as e-wallets, further expediting the expansion of financial services," said PwC. watch now"Consumers are adopting digital financial services at a rapid pace. Cash is no longer king, as digital payments now make up more than 50% of the region's transactions," a recent Google, Temasek and Bain & Company report wrote. "In some regions such as Southeast Asia, [digital payments via e-wallets] are already more common than physical card payments and set to dominate point-of-sale [systems] overall," wrote Dan Jones and Alex Walker of OliverWyman.

Persons: PwC, hawkers, —, Cash, Dan Jones, Alex Walker of OliverWyman Organizations: Banking, Getty, Careem, Mercado Libre, Temasek, Bain & Company Locations: China, East Asia, Shanghai, Banking Asia, Asia, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, Paytm, India, AliPay, Latin America

☆ EV owners are fed up with charging stations that lack bathrooms, snacks, and even trash cans
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

EV charging stations sometimes lack simple amenities like 24-hour bathrooms, food, and trash cans. That's because charging stations today often lack basic amenities that we take for granted at gas stations: things like bathrooms, rain and sun cover, food options, and even trash cans. AdvertisementAdvertisementIf electric cars really are going to be the future, experts told Insider, the experience at charging stations needs to get a whole lot more convenient. Rove, a startup, is working on huge charging stations with grocery stores, fresh espresso, and 24/7 lounges. Rove, a startup, is working on huge charging stations with grocery stores, fresh espresso, and 24/7 lounges.

Persons: that's, Tim Levin, I'm, JD Power, Brent Gruber, Gruber, EVs weren't, Loren McDonald, Brendan Jones, Rove, Rove Blink, Jones, Tesla Organizations: EV, Morning, JD Locations: waded, America

WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials were investigating threats related to former President Donald Trump's election interference probe in Georgia, after the names and addresses of grand jury members were shared online, the local sheriff's office said. "Our investigators are working closely with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to track down the origin of threats in Fulton County and other jurisdictions," the Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Thursday. It’s critical that the Fulton County Sheriff's Office take this matter seriously. Fulton County contains Atlanta, Georgia's largest city and the state capital. "These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President Trump," one report quoted a poster as saying.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Dan Jones, Fani Willis, Trump, Jones, Jack Smith, Democrat Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Scott Morgan, Kanishka Singh, Jonathan Landay, Jonathan Oatis, Scott Malone, Grant McCool Organizations: Sheriff's, Advance Democracy, FBI, Senate Intelligence, Trump, Reuters, Republican, Democrat, Social, U.S, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: Georgia, Fulton County, Fulton, Atlanta, Georgia's, Bluffs , Iowa, U.S, Texas, Washington

☆ What Tesla’s EV charging win really means for drivers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

A Tesla charging station stands in a parking lot on January 17, 2023 in Springfield, Virginia. But other EV charging companies have, so far, faced a far greater reliability challenge than Tesla’s. It’s an integrated system and has been from the very beginning,” said Jim Burness, chief executive of National Car Charging, a wholesaler of equipment to the EV charging industry. In both cases, drivers will be able to access Tesla chargers without having to use Tesla apps. That could lead to more lines at Tesla chargers, irritating Tesla owners.

Persons: Tesla, Anna Moneymaker, Stephanie Brinley, Jon McNeill, ”, “ Tesla, Jim Burness, Justin Sullivan, Alan Wexler, “, ” Wexler, Dan Barbossa, CNN’s, Mark J, Terrill, they’re, you’re, Brendan Jones, Blink, Burness, “ That’s, Stephen Beck, Gary Silberg Organizations: CNN, P Global Mobility, Ford, General Motors, EV, GM, Nissan, Tesla, DVx Ventures, CNN Business, Detroit, CCS, KPMG Locations: United States, Springfield , Virginia, America, San Francisco , California, Westlake, Calif

☆ 'Old guy' Jones flirts with cut before winning New Zealand Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

March 5 (Reuters) - Australian Brendan Jones nearly missed the cut at the New Zealand Open but rounds of nine-under-par 62 and five-under 66 over the weekend saw him claim the Brodie Breeze Trophy by three strokes at Queenstown's Millbrook Resort on Sunday. The 48-year-old was in danger of missing out on the third and fourth rounds after a pair of 69s to open the tournament and trailed overnight leader Shae Wools-Cobb by four shots at the start of play on Sunday. "I don't know what's happened but I've won it and I played some pretty awesome golf, for an old guy anyway. The New Zealand Open returned this week for its 102nd edition after being cancelled in 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID pandemic. Reporting by Nick Mulvenney; Editing by Tom HogueOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Instant View: New Biden EV charger rules stress Made In America, force Tesla changes
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The White House seeks to give consumers unfettered access to a growing coast-to-coast network of EV charging stations, including Tesla Inc's (TSLA.O) SuperChargers. KEVIN DEMPSEY, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL INSTITUTE"The domestic steel industry is prepared to play a strong role in the expansion of our national EV charging infrastructure. "It was a surprise to us that they would require assembly immediately given that domestic manufacturing for high-power charging infrastructure is starting basically from scratch. BRENDAN JONES, PRESIDENT AT CHARGING STATION OPERATOR BLINK CHARGING"These rules are absolutely in line with Blink's expectations. EV MAKER FISKER"Fisker supports a strategy that allows all charging providers to expand the charging network across the US as fast as possible.

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