Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinElectric vehicle sales have been exploding, particularly in Europe. But most of the attention has been on passenger cars. Commercial vehicles also contribute to the greenhouse gas and city air quality issues the world is facing. Anglo-Swedish startup Volta Trucks reckons it has the answer in the shape of…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Major oil and gas companies, which scrambled to abandon operations in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine in late February, are now warning that doing so will result in billions of dollars of losses. Several companies have warned that upcoming earnings results could take a hit. Spencer Platt/Getty…
From Bedding to Betting: Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale hedges big furniture promotions at his Texas stores with multimillion-dollar sports wagers. “It’s a lot sexier than liability insurance,” he says. Gallery Furniture For some sports gamblers, betting on the Super Bowl coin toss is about as good as the odds can get. But for Jim McIngvale,…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Tesla CEO Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter, the social media giant disclosed in an SEC filing on Monday, a move that comes weeks after the billionaire accused Twitter of failing to adhere to free speech principles. Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2% stake in…
Chickens, many of them destined for the spit, have vastly outnumbered humans in Nebraska’s Butler County since Costco spent half a billion dollars on poultry production in the state a few years ago. Now that a highly contagious virus called avian flu has infected flocks in the area, neighboring farmers are realizing they may have…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline In her first Tesla sales since January, famed stock picker Cathie Wood, the CEO of investment firm Ark Invest, has offloaded a massive stake in the electric vehicle maker helmed by Elon Musk over the past week, dumping more than $200 million in shares to instead splurge on…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin The wreckage of an Su-34 in Ukraine. Photo via Oryx blog The Sukhoi Su-34 was supposed to change the Russian air force. The twin-engine, twin-seat, supersonic fighter-bomber—a highly-evolved variant of the Su-27 air-superiority fighter—promised to usher in a new era of high-tech, precision bombing. Instead, the Su-34s have…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Hackers allegedly breached gaming-focused blockchain platform Ronin Network last week and extracted cryptocurrencies now valued at more than $600 million, the company announced on Tuesday, marking the second-biggest hack ever in the burgeoning cryptocurrency space. The attack is the largest since a $600 million hack of blockchain-based platform…
Elon Musk speaks at the opening of Tesla’s new electric car plant near Gruenheide, Germany. Getty Images Tesla may be the top-selling electric vehicle brand but in California, its biggest market in the U.S., the carmaker’s products have become too expensive for customers there to receive state rebates for non-polluting cars and trucks. The state’s…
Ukraine’s deputy prime minister says the tech will help provide transparency about how many Russian soldiers are dying in the war. Critics say the use of facial recognition in war zones is a disaster in the making. Ukraine is using Clearview AI facial recognition to identify dead Russian soldiers as part of a campaign to…





