Electric vehicle sales were up 62% globally in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of 2021. That includes fully electric vehicles and plugin hybrids. These plugin vehicles reached 4.3 million sales in the first half of 2022, according to global EV analysis leaders at EV-Volumes. Looking at growth in core regions,… Continue reading Clean Technica: Global Electric Vehicle Sales Up 62% (Overall Auto Sales Down 8%)002379
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Panicked Elon Musk Reportedly Begging Engineers Not to Leave
Elon Musk’s Twitter operations are still in free fall. Earlier this week, the billionaire CEO sent an email to staff telling them that they “need to be extremely hardcore” and work long hours at the office, or quit and get three months severance, as The Washington Post reports. Employees had until 5 pm on Thursday… Continue reading Panicked Elon Musk Reportedly Begging Engineers Not to Leave
Startup Says It’s Building a Giant CO2 Battery in the United States
A big, gassy dome of energy. Italian Import Carbon dioxide has a bad rep for its role in driving climate change, but in an unexpected twist, it could also play a key role in storing renewable energy. The world’s first CO2 battery, built by Italian startup Energy Dome, promises to store renewables on an industrial… Continue reading Startup Says It’s Building a Giant CO2 Battery in the United States
“Elon” Plummets in Popularity as a Baby Name for Some Reason
We can’t imagine why. Big Baby Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s name has clearly lost its luster among the parents of newborns. According to BabyCenter‘s review of the data the name “Elon” has cratered in popularity over the last year, dropping from 120 babies per million in 2021 to just 90 babies per million,… Continue reading “Elon” Plummets in Popularity as a Baby Name for Some Reason
FDA Approves First Lab Grown Meat Product For Human Consumption
“The world is experiencing a food revolution and the [FDA] is committed to supporting innovation in the food supply.” Meat and Greet Behold, ethical omnivores: the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its first lab grown meat product for human consumption. The decision, a first for cultivated meat in the US, paves the… Continue reading FDA Approves First Lab Grown Meat Product For Human Consumption
Celebrities Are Officially Being Sued by FTX Retail Investors
Welp, that didn’t take long. The first civil suit against the still-imploding crypto exchange FTX was just filed in a Florida court, accusing FTX, disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, and 11 of the exchange’s many celebrity ambassadors of preying on “unsophisticated” retail investors. The list of celeb defendants impressive — honestly, it reads more like an… Continue reading Celebrities Are Officially Being Sued by FTX Retail Investors
Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
“Twitter has seemingly neglected security for a very long time, and with all the changes, there is risk for sure,” says David Kennedy, CEO of the incident response firm TrustedSec, who formerly worked at the NSA and with the United States Marine Corps signal intelligence unit. “There’s a lot of work to be done to… Continue reading Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
Twitter hit with mass resignations after Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum
Elon Musk is now facing a new crisis at Twitter as a wave of employees seemed to reject his ultimatum of an “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 or leave the company. Hours after a deadline for workers to check “yes” on a Google form accepting “long hours at high intensity, it seems a large number of… Continue reading Twitter hit with mass resignations after Elon Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum
Elon Musk changes Twitter’s remote work rules, again
Elon Musk is changing Twitter’s remote work rules yet again amid deadline for employees to commit to his vision for a “hardcore” company. Musk, who previously banned remote work at Twitter, has now indicated that some remote work is possible, Bloomberg and The Verge report. “Regarding remote work, all that is required for approval is that your… Continue reading Elon Musk changes Twitter’s remote work rules, again
Feds charge Russians linked to the ‘world’s largest’ pirated e-book library
US law enforcement isn’t just interested in shutting down video pirates. The feds have charged two Russian nationals, Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova, for allegedly running the pirate e-book repository Z-Library. The site was billed as the “world’s largest library” and held over 11 million titles, many of which were bootleg versions stripped of copyright… Continue reading Feds charge Russians linked to the ‘world’s largest’ pirated e-book library