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Company Tells Customers Who Paid $13,500 for Glamorous Yurts That It’s Bankrupt, the Yurts Are Unavailable, and Refunds Are Impossible

In the lead-up to the United Kingdom’s famous Glastonbury festival this summer, well-heeled partiers shelled out for fancy “glamping” yurts — those tent-like dwellings with ancient origins in Central Asia that have been appropriated by hippies in recent decades — and the people who took their money are now telling them they’re out of luck. As the… Continue reading Company Tells Customers Who Paid $13,500 for Glamorous Yurts That It’s Bankrupt, the Yurts Are Unavailable, and Refunds Are Impossible

Novo Nordisk Offering Large Discount on Wegovy in Bid to Recapture Market

Image by Armend Nimani / AFP via Getty / Futurism It’s been a tough year for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical company behind the GLP-1 drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Competitors are nipping at its heels, cheaper knockoffs have been eating into its sales, and it just gave the boot to its former CEO. Now, hoping… Continue reading Novo Nordisk Offering Large Discount on Wegovy in Bid to Recapture Market

The Dinner People Got for Spending Tons of Money On Trump’s Meme Coin is Unintentionally Hilarious

“It was the worst food I’ve ever had at a Trump golf course.” Poor Retch Imagine not only spending your hard-earned American dollars on president Donald Trump’s worthless memecoin, but also being threatened with a barely-edible meal at his golf course. That was the reality for 200 “lucky” investors, who, as four of the attendees… Continue reading The Dinner People Got for Spending Tons of Money On Trump’s Meme Coin is Unintentionally Hilarious

Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation

Titles like City Bus Manager and Global Farmer are benefiting from OpenStreetMap. I’m feeling a strange sense of pressure as I set up my first bus route in City Bus Manager. I want to get things right for the public transportation users of this city, probably because it’s the city I actually live in. City… Continue reading Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation

Clean Technica: Electric Vehicles Top 5 Vehicle Classes in California — CHARTS004037

Last Updated on: 24th May 2025, 03:30 am Electric vehicles account for more than 20% — more than one out of five — auto sales in California. The Tesla Model Y and Tesla Model 3 dominate the market and are the first and third best selling cars in the state. However, several other electric models… Continue reading Clean Technica: Electric Vehicles Top 5 Vehicle Classes in California — CHARTS004037

Opinion: it’s time to start recommending some Tesla alternatives

For years, Tesla has been the go-to EV recommendation for “normals” looking for a painless, low-effort experience from their first electric cars. In light of questionable recalls and its CEO’s recent involvement in controversial politics, however, people are starting to distance themselves from the trailblazing company. All that begs the question: what should we recommend… Continue reading Opinion: it’s time to start recommending some Tesla alternatives

Tesla Executive Admits That Self-Driving Is Going Nowhere Fast

Nearly ten years ago in 2015, rising tech entrepreneur Elon Musk made a bold announcement: Tesla vehicles would be fully driving themselves by 2017. The billionaire was talking about vehicles with level 5 autonomy — a designation by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) commonly used as the benchmark for a full self-driving car that can… Continue reading Tesla Executive Admits That Self-Driving Is Going Nowhere Fast

Self-Driving Tesla Suddenly Swerves Off the Road and Crashes

A video that went viral on Reddit shows a Tesla Model 3 with its so-called “Full Self-Driving” driver assistance feature turned on veering off a country road, crashing into some fencing, and flipping onto its roof. An image shared by Wally, a Tesla owner in Alabama, shows the aftermath: deployed airbags, smashed windows, and a… Continue reading Self-Driving Tesla Suddenly Swerves Off the Road and Crashes

Nearly Half of Young People Wish the Internet Had Never Been Invented

Image by Getty / Futurism It’s a common refrain these days that some specific invention was a mistake, in our age of seemingly every human innovation blowing up catastrophically in our faces. And what better subject of our collective remorse than the advent of the entire internet, the glorious information superhighway now turned AI slop… Continue reading Nearly Half of Young People Wish the Internet Had Never Been Invented