Tesla Shanghai Reportedly Making 1,000 Cars per Week
Tesla is producing its Model 3 electric vehicles at a rate of 28 per hour at its new Shanghai plant, or more than 1,000 per week given 10 hours on shift each day, according to […]
Tesla is producing its Model 3 electric vehicles at a rate of 28 per hour at its new Shanghai plant, or more than 1,000 per week given 10 hours on shift each day, according to […]
Hundreds of asteroids zip past Earth every year, many of which are potentially-hazardous space rocks as categorized by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, that computes asteroid and comet orbits and their odds of hitting […]
The new year will bring new charges for some owners of electric vehicles, as an increasing number of states seek to plug into fresh revenue sources to offset forgone gas taxes, The Associated Press reported. […]
Tesla has started delivering Model 3 electric cars built at its Shanghai factory in just under a year since it began work on the $2 billion plant, a record for global automakers in China, and […]
Electric vehicle maker Tesla has started rolling out holiday updates, including a “full self-driving sneak preview”, teased by CEO Elon Musk last week. The holiday update included long-awaited features, like reading text messages aloud via […]
SpaceX has successfully conducted its 10th parachute test indicating the safety of the astronauts is their priority. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is closing the year with a tenth consecutive successful parachute test for a crewed mission […]
A man from Utah has implanted chips in his hand that allows him to open and start his Tesla, as well as additional options that all look like from a science fiction movie. Ben Workman […]
Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday that he hoped to have Justice Department investigations of the big tech platforms – Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple – completed in 2020, Reuters informs. The four tech […]
Amazon on Monday accused President Donald Trump of exerting “improper pressure” and bias that led the Department of Defense to award a lucrative $10 billion cloud contract to rival Microsoft, Reuters informs. In a complaint […]
President Donald Trump is defending Google, Facebook and other big tech companies he’s repeatedly railed against when it comes to France’s digital tax, a position that underscores how Trump’s policies on tech don’t always match […]
SpaceX has launched its nineteenth resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on behalf of NASA. The launch took place at 12:29 PM EST (9:29 AM PST) from Cape Canaveral in Florida, with a […]
Chinese tech giant Huawei is asking a U.S. federal court to throw out a rule that bars rural phone carriers from using government money to purchase its equipment on security grounds, The Associated Press writes. […]
Alphabet (GOOGL) announced on Tuesday that Google CEO Sundar Pichai will replace Larry Page as CEO of Alphabet. Pichai will serve as CEO of both Alphabet and its Google subsidiary. Page and Sergey Brin will […]
J.P. Morgan analysts have predicted that Apple is going to change up its launch strategy for 2021, CNBC reported. In a note from the analysts citing supply chains, it’s predicted that Apple would shift to […]
Chinese tech giant Huawei has decided to fight a Federal Communications Commission decision last week that further curtails its business with some of its few remaining customers in the U.S., as it continues to advocate […]
Ukraine’s Minister for Foreign Affairs accused Apple of ignorance after news reports this week the tech giant labeled Crimea as part of Russia in local versions of its Maps app, CNET reported. Apple’s move came […]
In a tweet over the weekend, Elon Musk explained why the supposedly unbreakable windows on Tesla’s new Cybertruck cracked during a demonstration last week, CNN writes. Ordinarily, glass shattering after being hit with a steel ball […]
Iran imposed an almost complete nationwide internet blackout on Sunday in one of its most draconian attempts to cut off Iranians from each other and the rest of the world as widespread anti-government unrest roiled […]
China’s proposed digitized domestic currency is not a bid to gain full control of information belonging to the general public, a senior central bank official said on Tuesday, adding that the goal was to balance […]
Scientists from NASA have opened up an untouched Moon rock and soil sample that was brought back by the Apollo 17 lunar mission, which returned to Earth in December 1972, CNN writes. The samples were […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was in San Francisco Tuesday to speak at an Air Force Pitch Day, a new type of event in which small-budget investments are made in various startups in the hopes of […]
The Ohio Air National Guard’s 178th Wing unit based in Springfield is being considered by the National Guard Bureau for a role in a new U.S. Space Force, Dayton Daily News writes. “The fact that […]
What does it take to pull Elon Musk out of his own Twitter exile? A good parachute test, CNET writes. On Friday, the Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur dropped a cryptic message on Twitter saying, “Not […]
The U.S. Air Force’s unpiloted X-37B space plane landed back on Earth Sunday (October 27) after a record 780 days in orbit, racking up the fifth ultra-long mission for the military’s mini-shuttle fleet, Space writes. The […]
Lobbying expenditures by Facebook, Amazon, and Apple are on pace to hit record highs this year, The Wall Street Journal informed. Facebook increased spending by nearly 25%, to $12.3 million, through the first nine months […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vowed to move ahead with plans to create a cryptocurrency-based payments network despite strong opposition from some lawmakers, sounding a note of defiance in a hearing where he and the social-media […]
The Air Force is using SpaceX’s fledgling satellite network to test encrypted internet services for a number of military planes, the space company’s president said on Tuesday, detailing results for the first customer of Elon […]
Russia’s security service FSB said Thursday it is now reviving cooperation with American agencies on cybersecurity issues despite major tensions between the two countries, TASS reported citing the agency’s head Alexander Bortnikov. “We are restoring those relations,” FSB’s chief […]
Apple is attracting scrutiny for its practice of checking if the websites you’re visiting are fraudulent and malware-infested after Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent was found listed as a safe browsing provider, The Next Web reports. […]
The United States carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran in the wake of the September 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh blame on Tehran, two U.S. officials have […]
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