Monthly Archives: December 2016

Tesla Motors Inc., CEO Elon Musk discusses the company’s new Gigafactory Tuesday, July 26, 2016, in Sparks, Nev. It’s Tesla Motors biggest bet yet: a massive, $5 billion factory in the Nevada desert that could almost double the world’s production of lithium-ion batteries by 2018.Image: APAP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Oracle Corp.s biggest cloud-computing takeover is in […]

Hunter S Thompson photographed at home on Owl Farm, Woody Creek in Colorado circa July 1983.Image: Alan Hillyer/Writer Pictures WORLD RIGHTS (Writer Pictures via AP Images The late, great Hunter S. Thompson was well known for his contribution to journalism. But he was also known for his love of getting f*cked up. Now, thanks to […]

Image: st mary’s sheriff/twitter Beavers have officially joined the war on Christmas. In Charlotte Hall, Maryland, yesterday, witnesses spotted a lone beaver wandering through the artificial Christmas tree aisle. Perhaps fueled by residual Black Friday rage, the beaver soon began to tear through the Christmas trees and the store, leaving a path of unparalleled destruction […]

Airbnb thinks it has a good message in Trumpland.Image: Jens Kalaene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images When America’s tech leaders visit President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday to kiss the ring, Airbnb’s CEO will not be present. But not because he wasn’t invited. According to the company’s head of global policy Chris Lehane, CEO Brian Chesky got the call, but will […]

UK startup Electronis hoping to convince the energy sector to buy into the transformative potential of blockchain technology and, down the line, unlock commercialization opportunities for over the top services running on a decentralized infrastructure platform. At this point its built a demo platformon the Ethereum blockchain, and has pumped in simulated data from 53 […]

(CNN)Andy Williams may have sung that “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” but for many, it’s also by far the most stressful. Expectations for the perfect Christmas season can run as high as the highest blood pressure, with a cocktail of cranky relatives, undercooked turkey and hard-to-find gifts all adding to the seasonal […]

Lucia Hiriart accused of using public funds for not-for-profit womens group to fund dictators battle against extradition from Britain A Chilean judge has questioned the 94-year-old widow of the late dictator Augusto Pinochet over allegations she embezzled public funds through a not-for-profit womens group she ran. Luca Hiriart is accused of using money from the […]

(CNN)The race to the top has just gotten tighter, with two rising mega-towers in the Middle East battling to become the world’s tallest. Construction has now begun on The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbor, a vast waterfront development, with completion scheduled for ahead of the Dubai’s Expo 2020 trade fair, which kicks off in October […]

Oakland, California (CNN)The search for answers continued Tuesday in Oakland as city, state and federal agencies sifted through wreckage in one of the city’s deadliest building fires on record. Bucket by bucket, investigators painstakingly removed debris from inside the warehouse-turned-art-space, narrowing the fire’s origin to the rear of the building, Oakland Fire Deputy Director Darin […]

This isn’t a game.Image: hbo After the credits rolled on Westworld‘s blood-soaked Season 1 finale, HBO invited fans to react to what they’d just seen with a card that read: “What just happened? Ask a host now,” before directing fans to the website DiscoverWestworld.com. For most of the season, DiscoverWestworld has been presented as a […]