The funnest car I ever drove was the original Tesla Roadster. This was in 2011, back when Elon Musk’s EV company was courting press instead of denigrating us, and they offered me a test drive. I took the car up I-280 — a beautiful, mostly deserted highway with perfectly banked curves that seemed designed for Silicon […]
The woman who filmed Waymo’s honking robotaxis got an apology promo—then spent all day using it
Sophia Tung set up a livestream this past summer, showing self-driving Waymo cars honking from the San Francisco parking lot near her apartment at all hours of the night. As a kind of apology for the nuisance, Waymo threw an ice cream party in Tung’s building and gave Tung, a software engineer, some promo codes […]
Premier League transfer spending rankings 2024/25: Which EPL club has spent the most in summer window?
A year on from the record-breaking summer transfer window of 2024, these are more circumspect times in the Premier League. Overall spending broke through the £2 billion barrier this time last year. As the clock ticked down on deadline day, clubs had a combined outlay of £1.8 billion, although the most significant difference was in […]
Sentenced VS Served: The Real Time “Burning Sun” Criminals Spent In Prison
On May 19, the BBC World Service’s investigative team, BBC Eye, released a powerful new documentary titled Burning Sun, revealing how two female Korean journalists exposed sex scandals involving prominent K-Pop stars. This has brought to light the crimes of the stars involved, especially since nearly all those sentenced to prison have since been released. Shockingly, many had […]
Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet in 2023
Tucked inside Canoo’s 2023 earnings report is a nugget regarding the use of CEO Tony Aquila’s private jet — just one of many expenses that illustrates the gap between spending and revenue at the EV startup. Canoo posted Monday its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings for 2023 in a regulatory filing that shows a company burning […]