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Truckloads of Tesla Batteries Keep Getting Stolen Before They Even Leave the Factory

Trailers containing millions of dollars worth of Tesla car and home batteries have allegedly been stolen straight from loading docks at the company’s Nevada facilities at least 11 times since last December, according to sheriff’s records obtained by WIRED.

“It’s an epidemic right now,” says Storey County Sheriff’s Detective Sam Hatley, who has been investigating the Tesla cases.

Three men suspected of carrying out one of the heists were arrested in January and charged with felony possession of stolen property. But the broader spate of cargo thefts plaguing Elon Musk’s car company are still under investigation and have not been previously reported.

Hatley tells WIRED the incidents documented in the sheriff's records reflect only a portion of the problem. Investigators are tracking a total of 17 alleged cargo thefts this year involving Tesla and other businesses in Storey County, though Hatley declined to say how many involved the car maker...

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The Func. Lab Raises $1.5 Million Seed Funding; Nisaba Godrej, Anand Piramal and Bhakti Modi Among Investors

Nutrition startup The Func. Lab has raised $1.5 million in a seed funding round from a group of strategic investors, including Nisaba Godrej, Executive Chairperson of Godrej Consumer Products; Anand Piramal, Executive Director of Piramal Group; former Indian cricketer and coach Abhishek Nayar; Bhakti Modi, Co-Founder of Tira; Harsh

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China’s CXMT wins a reported $3bn memory deal with Tencent

ChangXin Memory Technologies has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3bn of memory chips, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a deal that would bind one of China’s largest cloud operators to its largest homegrown DRAM maker. Neither company has confirmed the agreement publicly, and the

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Australia moves to double Big Tech fines and arm its regulator over the under-16 ban

Six months after Australia became the first country to bar under-16s from social media, the government has concluded that the platforms are not taking the rule seriously enough, and is preparing to make the consequences of ignoring it considerably more expensive. New legislation announced this week would roughly double the

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Prosus profit roughly doubles as its e-commerce bets and Tencent stake pay off

For years Prosus was, in effect, a single bet wearing the costume of a diversified investor: a sprawling portfolio whose value rose and fell with one Chinese asset. Its latest results suggest the costume is becoming the company. Prosus reported revenue of about $7.3bn for the financial year ended

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The Func. Lab Raises $1.5 Million Seed Funding; Nisaba Godrej, Anand Piramal and Bhakti Modi Among Investors

China’s CXMT wins a reported $3bn memory deal with Tencent

Australia moves to double Big Tech fines and arm its regulator over the under-16 ban

Prosus profit roughly doubles as its e-commerce bets and Tencent stake pay off