Cybertruck Mercurial Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a rare update on the company’s in-development pickup truck Sunday night, tweeting that the forthcoming vehicle will be “closer to an armored personnel carrier from the future” than any images we’ve seen publicly. Musk also gave the truck, a new name: the “Cybertruck.” Cybertruck doesn’t look like anything… Continue reading Elon Musk: Tesla Is Making An “Armored Personnel Carrier”
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Court Documents: Elon Musk Called Himself a “Fucking Idiot”
The Saga Continues Elon Musk regretted calling Vernon Unsworth a “child rapist” in an email to BuzzFeed, a court document filed by the British diver reveals. “I didn’t expect Buzzfeed to publish an off the record email,” Musk said, according to the document. “My intent was to have them investigate and come to their own conclusions, not… Continue reading Court Documents: Elon Musk Called Himself a “Fucking Idiot”
Elon Musk Escalates Beef With Porsche’s Electric Car
Double Down Remember the Taycan, the all-electric Porsche that Tesla CEO Elon Musk publicly ridiculed yesterday? Now Musk is doubling down. In a Thursday evening tweet, Musk revealed plans to bring Tesla’s Model S to the Nürburgring, a notoriously difficult race track in Germany. It’s almost certainly a direct challenge to Porsche, which took its… Continue reading Elon Musk Escalates Beef With Porsche’s Electric Car
Elon Musk Ridicules Porsche for Calling Its Electric Car “Turbo”
Turbo Looks like German carmaker Porsche has hit a nerve. Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter Thursday to ridicule Porsche for calling one of the versions of its all-electric sports car “Turbo.” For the uninitiated, turbochargers are usually found in internal combustion engine vehicles, where they’re used to increase performance by pumping more compressed air… Continue reading Elon Musk Ridicules Porsche for Calling Its Electric Car “Turbo”
This Electric Car Uses Moss in the Dashboard to Filter Air
Moss Dashboard You won’t see them on the street any time before the summer of 2020, but German startup Sono Motors has revealed a new solar-powered electric car with a strange twist: strands of moss integrated into the vehicle’s dashboard that help the car’s air filtering system. As pointed out by Electrek, the moss is… Continue reading This Electric Car Uses Moss in the Dashboard to Filter Air
BMW Unveils a Car Coated in Vantablack
All Black Everything Vantablack is a coating so black, anything covered in it appears to disappear, replaced by the blackest of black voids. Now, the company behind the coating, Surrey NanoSystems, has teamed up with BMW to see what it looks like when you paint a vehicle with Vantablack — and it’s about as trippy… Continue reading BMW Unveils a Car Coated in Vantablack
Self-Driving Car Companies Depend on Cheap Labor From Venezuela
Data Farm In order to teach a car to drive itself, its artificial intelligence needs to be presented with thousands of examples of things it might encounter on the road: pedestrians about to cross a street, for instance, or specific street signs. Now, with economic turmoil in Venezuela that left many impoverished, companies that gather… Continue reading Self-Driving Car Companies Depend on Cheap Labor From Venezuela
Microsoft: We Stopped Listening to Your Xbox Convos “Months Ago”
Microsoft has admitted that it let human contractors review Xbox users’ private conversations — but says it halted the practice long before Vice published a story exposing it on Wednesday. “We stopped reviewing any voice content taken through Xbox for product improvement purposes a number of months ago, as we no longer felt it was… Continue reading Microsoft: We Stopped Listening to Your Xbox Convos “Months Ago”
This Startup Is Deploying Thousands of Autonomous Delivery Robots
The College Try When students and professors head to college this fall, they might glimpse an unexpected sight on campus: robots. On Tuesday, San Francisco-based startup Starship Technologies announced that it had just secured an additional $40 million in funding — and that it plans to send thousands of its delivery robots to college campuses… Continue reading This Startup Is Deploying Thousands of Autonomous Delivery Robots
Norway’s New Electric Plane Crashes During Demo Flight
Mayday Norway unveiled its first battery-powered plane during a demo flight before a high-profile crowd on Wednesday. Unfortunately, for reasons that are not yet fully known, Reuters reports that the Alpha Electro G2 plane crash-landed in a lake. Though no one was hurt, the crash represents an inauspicious start for the country’s plan to electrify… Continue reading Norway’s New Electric Plane Crashes During Demo Flight