Honda unveils all-solid-state EV battery production line for the first time

Honda has been promising to unlock the power of all-solid-state EV batteries for several years. Today, we are getting our first look at the progress. Honda unveiled a demonstration production line as it continues to advance promising new battery technology. By 2050, Honda wants all its products and corporate activities to be carbon neutral. Although… Continue reading Honda unveils all-solid-state EV battery production line for the first time

Clean Technica: Tesla Model Y News From Around The World003718

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! The Model Y news started this month with the announcement that Tesla would offer one full year of free European Supercharging for anyone who purchases and takes delivery of a Model Y there before December 31, 2024. The thinking… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Model Y News From Around The World003718

Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers

“There have got to be so many people who are so embarrassed to be repping him on the streets driving their Teslas and who want to completely disavow this guy.” Drag Race For longtime Tesla owners, Elon Musk’s increasing rightwing crusading has made their electric cars into mortifying red flags — and now, a bunch… Continue reading Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers

People Are Getting Their Eyeballs Tattooed

Image by Getty / Futurism An unusual cosmetic surgery procedure that involves permanently changing the color of your eyes using tattoos soaring in popularity. As the Wall Street Journal reports, experts are warning that the procedure — called keratopigmentation, or corneal tattooing — could leave lasting damage. The procedure involves cutting a donut-like tunnel into… Continue reading People Are Getting Their Eyeballs Tattooed

Body Language Expert Says Trump Is Acting “Submissive” Around Musk

“The only other figure with whom the president-elect is so submissive is Vladimir Putin.” Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Musk  A body language expert assessed Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s behavior around each other and concluded that the future president is acting uncharacteristically deferential around his star-crossed friend.  Former police officer Darren Stanton analyzed a video of… Continue reading Body Language Expert Says Trump Is Acting “Submissive” Around Musk

Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke’s AI Holiday Ad and It’s Way Better

“Brilliant. No notes.” AI Gore Coca-Cola drew criticism for rolling out an uninspired and lazily AI-generated holiday advertisement this year. The ad is pretty much exactly the kind of insipid corporate sludge you’d expect from AI: predictable, unimaginative and vaguely uncanny. Fortunately, Redditors took matters into their own hands, celebrating tooth-rotting soft drinks with a… Continue reading Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke’s AI Holiday Ad and It’s Way Better

Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk’s Grok AI

Image by Matteo Della Torre / NurPhoto via Getty / Futurism To celebrate its new image-understanding capabilities, Elon Musk has encouraged his followers to share medical documents like MRI scans and x-rays with Grok, his AI chatbot integrated into X-formerly-Twitter. “This is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become extremely… Continue reading Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk’s Grok AI

Nvidia Says Its Blackwell Chip Is Fine, Nothing to See Here

A large portion of Nvidia’s growth this quarter was driven by data center revenue, totaling $30.8 billion for the quarter, which was up 112 percent from last year. The company’s gross profit margin was 74.5 percent, essentially flat from a year ago. But analysts expect that Nvidia’s margins could shrink as the company shifts to… Continue reading Nvidia Says Its Blackwell Chip Is Fine, Nothing to See Here

Trump FCC Pick Brendan Carr Wants to Be the Speech Police. That’s Not His Job

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wants to refashion the broadband regulator into the nation’s speech police on social platforms. As FCC chair, Carr would set the agency’s agenda on issues like broadband deployment, net neutrality, and telecom privacy. But since Carr was nominated as a commissioner in 2017… Continue reading Trump FCC Pick Brendan Carr Wants to Be the Speech Police. That’s Not His Job

The NBA will air a Christmas Day game with Disney characters

If you can’t get your kids to sit through one of the five NBA games airing on Christmas Day, tune into Disney+, ESPN+ or ESPN2 for a special Disney-fied version. ESPN announced that it will air a “Dunk the Halls” broadcast of the San Antonio Spurs versus the New York Knicks featuring animated Disney characters.… Continue reading The NBA will air a Christmas Day game with Disney characters