COLOR COATING CARS TIKTOK AND TRUMP Spotlight on Innovation Head lines T ikTok is the latest victimof the Trump admin -
TESLA BUILDING BETTER BATTERY But did you know that 80 percent of the vehicles on the road around the world are painted in just a few colors. All of them are what people in the coatings industry call “achromatic” which means, these colors that are not that colorful: white, black, gray, and silver. T esla CEO, Elon Musk offered new delivery predictions for 2020 at the company’s recent shareholder’s meeting, where the company also detailed a new battery design that it claims will make its cars cheaper to produce. Musk also said the battery and manufacturing advances Tesla is working on will soon lead to lower prices, which will be vital for getting more electric vehicles on the road. Musk also said that the company is about three years away from being able to build a “Very compelling $25,000 electric vehicle that’s also fully autonomous.” Musk is notorious for being overly optimistic with his predictions, but there was a time that industry experts thought it would not be possible to send electric cars to make so we would bet against him. T he increasing demand for SUV’s and crossover cars has auto makers focus on making these larger vehicles as aerody - namic as possible to improve fuel mileage and an ever-growing list of essential safety features and technology.
CUSTOMIZING YOUR IPHONE istration’s asserting its leverage over China, which has limited or prohibited American companies from operating within its borders for many years. This is nothing new for the current administration which has been using technology companies and their industry as a battleground for geopolitical warfare with China. Previous to TikTok, it blocked Broadcom’s attempt at buyingQualcomm in 2018 over arrangements with “Third party foreign entities.” It banned U.S. government agencies from doing business with Chinese telecom com- panies ZTE and Huawei. Trump’s administration also forced the Chinese company that acquired Grindr dating app to sell the application. i Phone users are using the latest iOS update to customize their home screen with new icons, photo boxes, and even entire color schemes. The new iOS options match features long avail - able for Android devices, which typically allow users to change nearly everything about the software’s appearance. Prior to iOS 14, iPhone users were forced to have their apps in a grid of boxes. Now users with the help of a new widget feature in iOS 14 can create a workaround using the Apple-made Shortcuts app, allowing users to change the appearance of their icons, and basi- cally make the iPhone’s home screen look com - pletely different.
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SEPTEMBER 2020 • SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE
SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • SEPTEMBER 2020
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