Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been taking part in leadership hustings around the country JACOB KING/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Conservative members are being charged to watch hustings in the campaign to succeed Boris Johnson. Viewers are asked to donate up to £100 before registering, while attendees are charged an admin fee. Pre-paid postage has…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Elon Musk speaking earlier in the year in Germany. Getty Images Europe Elon Musk hinted that Tesla could grow its network of Gigafactories, and could ultimately build 12. Tesla may be able to announce the location of a new factory later this year, Musk told stockholders. Tesla is on track to achieve a production run…
“I don’t even know how to smoke a joint,” Elon Musk told the hosts of the Full Send podcast. Theo Wargo/WireImage Elon Musk said he had to take drug tests for a year after smoking weed on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2018. Both him and the “whole of SpaceX” were subjected to random drugs tests…
The author, Hanna Horvath. Courtesy Hanna Horvath A financial planner says money is a tool to help you live the life you want. One way to make the most of it is to spend on services that save time, like hiring an accountant for taxes or a house cleaner. If you calculate what your time…
Sen. Joe Manchin, who spearheaded the bill. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Democrats are on the brink of passing their proposed $739 billion Inflation Reduction Act. The bill provides for cheaper prescription drugs, EV tax credits, and a levy on stock buybacks. Here’s what you need to know about the proposed legislation, and…
A “now hiring” sign is displayed in a window in Manhattan on July 28, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The US added 528,000 jobs in July, exceeding the median estimate of 250,000 new payrolls. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, landing below the 3.6% forecast. The report shows job creation rebounding despite…
Elon Musk intends to stay at Tesla as long as he can be useful. Ray Tamarra / Contributor / Getty Elon Musk said that Tesla would continue to do well even if he was kidnapped by aliens. However, he intends to stay as long as he can be useful, he said at Tesla’s 2022 Cyber…
YouTube has quietly introduced an experimental feature called pinch to zoom exclusively for Premium users, Android Police has reported. It lets you zoom into the video player and then pan around to look at different parts of the screen, both in portrait or full-screen landscape view, as shown below. If you’re a Premium user, you can…
Amazon just took a big step toward cornering the market for household robots. The company has reached a deal to acquire iRobot, the creator of Roomba robot vacuums. The purchase is worth $1.7 billion in cash and will maintain Colin Angle as iRobot’s CEO. The two firms didn’t say when they expected the deal to…
This week on the show, Cherlynn is joined by guest co-host Sam Rutherford to talk about the newly launched OnePlus 10T. Why did the company choose to sacrifice an alert slider, wireless charging and some other features in exchange for extreme speed? How does the OnePlus 10T stack up against other midrange phones like the…