Tesla wants to move ahead with the construction of the buildings at Gigafactory Berlin without the final approval for the project. Gigafactory Berlin is critical to Tesla’s plan in Europe. The automaker wants to slash costs by producing vehicles locally and avoid the expense of shipping vehicles from California to the old continent. Furthermore, Tesla …
A police chief who pushed to electrify his department’s patrol cars with Tesla Model 3 vehicles now says that the EVs might pay for themselves in less than two years Last year, we reported on the Bargersville, Indiana, police department updating their fleet with Tesla Model 3 vehicles. Bargersville Police Chief Todd Bertram commented at …
Nissan readies a new global EV on the Leaf platform. The Leaf won’t be Nissan’s main electric offering for long: Nissan will reveal the production version of its Ariya electric crossover next month, with plans to target the Tesla Model Y and the Volkswagen ID.4 as an affordable, versatile EV. If it feels like this …
While there are many close friendships among tech CEOs in Silicon Valley, there are plenty of feuds, too. Some appear to be friendly rivalries — like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison — but others have become more contentious. Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, for example, have been openly feuding for years, …
Chinese smartphone giant Vivo has shelled out $182 million for land to build a 32-story high-rise headquarters. The tower will feature spiraling exterior gardens and will house 5,800 workers when it’s expected to be completed in 2025. Vivo’s new headquarters will sit in the Chinese district of Shenzhen, a booming tech sector that is also …
A Tesla slammed into a police cruiser during a traffic stop in Massachusetts in December 2019. The driver told the state trooper at the time that the car was on Autopilot, according to an incident report first reported by NBC 10 Boston. The state police say he’s now facing criminal negligence charges related to the …
Battered by the coronavirus pandemic, European aircraft manufacturer Airbus said Tuesday that it must eliminate 15,000 jobs, mostly in Europe, to safeguard its future and warned of more thin years ahead. No later than the summer of 2021, Airbus wants to shed 5,000 workers in France, 5,100 in Germany, 1,700 in Britain, 900 in Spain …
Apple has been contemplating a move into sleep for years. It’s finally doing that — but with a simpler approach than most. Kevin Lynch, Apple’s vice president in charge of Apple Watch software, explains why. Apple fans have speculated for years about when the company’s smartwatch would start tracking sleep. Now it’s finally arriving with …
YouTube is raising its monthly subscription to its television package by $15 starting this month. While the company said it added ViacomCBS brands to YouTube TV, it also said it understands if customers want to pause or cancel their subscriptions due to the price hike. It follows a prior price bump a year ago. Google-owned YouTube …
Button of the month: ThinkPad Trackpoin In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like hardware has taken a back seat to the software that drives our devices. Button of the Month will look at what some of those buttons and switches are like on devices old and new to appreciate how we interact with them …