Hyundai said Thursday it will begin building electric vehicles under its high-performance N brand created to compete with luxury sports cars from Mercedes-Benz and BMW. The automaker said the Ioniq 5 N, high-performance version of its battery-electric SUV, will launch in 2023. Hyundai also premiered Thursday two high-performance concepts — RN22e and N Vision 74…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Donald Trump poses with his family after formally announcing his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on June 16, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Donald Trump has five children between two of his former wives and his current wife Melania Trump Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump are children with his first wife, Ivana Trump,…
Former President Donald Trump. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images A police officer has backed up testimony that Donald Trump fought with his Secret Service detail. According to CNN, the officer told the January 6 committee he witnessed a heated exchange. The testimony supports former the account shared by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. A…
Kazi Awal/Insider The gender pay gap varies across race and age. Rachel Mendelson/Insider The gender pay gap is the difference in earnings between men and women in the workforce. Many factors contribute to the gender pay gap, including unconscious bias and discrimination. In general, the gender pay gap is much larger for women of color….
The world’s largest NFT platform, Opensea, is cutting 20 percent of its workforce. The information comes directly from CEO Devin, who tweeted a screenshot of a Slack message he’d sent to the entire company staff Thursday. Finzer blamed the economic instability around both crypto specifically and the economy broadly for the layoffs. The cuts, he…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chrome OS, Google’s Linux-based operating system for its Chromebook devices, has been around for more than a decade, but the company has made a small but notable branding change: it’s now called ChromeOS, with no space in between. James Croom, Google’s senior director of marketing for ChromeOS, confirmed…
Enlarge / A plasma donor is connected to an apheresis machine, which separates plasma from blood as people donate blood plasma for medicines, at the Twickenham Donor Centre, southwest London on April 7, 2021. (credit: Getty | Johnathan Brady) The COVID-19 pandemic is considered by many experts to be a mass disabling event. Though most…
Flexibility remains a key priority for students pursuing higher education, according to a new “College 2030” report from Barnes & Noble College Insights, the research arm of Barnes & Noble Education.Read More
Crypto startups — fresh off a mind-boggling bull run — are preparing for the next phase of life where the mere mention of “NFT,” “DAO” or “DeFi” may not tempt investors quite as much as before. The breed of crypto startups raising now are looking to double down on scoring more traditional customers rather than…
Someone claiming to be a Cruise employee sent an anonymous letter to a California regulatory agency raising concerns that the company is launching its robotaxi service too early. The employee cited the regularity of instances that Cruise robotaxis malfunction in some way and are left stranded on streets, often blocking traffic or emergency vehicles, as…