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Kim Kardashian is set to star in the upcoming series of popular US television show American Horror Story. The 42-year-old reality star teased her appearance in the show, co-created by Emmy Award-winning director Ryan Murphy, to her 352m Instagram followers. She will appear in the 12th season of the horror anthology series alongside Scream Queens

The first-ever fully electric Chevy Blazer EV is set to go on sale this summer, followed by a powerful high-performance SS trim. This SS version will be the first performance model of a Chevy EV, with an estimated 557 horsepower, turning the all-around family car into a speed demon. Check out the latest video of

US actor Michael Lerner, who received an Oscar nomination for his role in Barton Fink, has died at the age of 81. Lerner died on the evening of 8 April, his nephew Sam Lerner, actor in The Goldbergs series, announced on Instagram via a tribute. Alongside a picture of his uncle, Sam Lerner said: “We

Members of Abba have paid tribute to their long-standing guitarist Lasse Wellander after he died at the age of 70. In a statement, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad said: “Lasse was a dear friend, a fun guy and a superb guitarist. “The importance of his creative input in the recording studio

Tesla has announced a new deal to build a Megafactory in Shanghai, China, to build energy storage products in the market. Last year, Tesla launched its first ‘Megafactory’ in California. The plant is dedicated to producing Megapacks, a large battery system used in large-scale energy storage projects for electric utilities around the world. It is

The US Environmental Protection Agency is set to announce sweeping new EPA rules on Wednesday intended to bring EV market share to ~60% in the US by 2030 and 67% by 2032. The rules are a big step forward for electrification, and represent an improvement from President Biden’s previous commitment of 50% electric by 2030.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Tesla, after news broke of employees sharing private videos internally. The original report from Reuters came out on Thursday. Reuters talked to several Tesla employees who said that Tesla dashcam and sentry mode videos were shared within Tesla in private or group chats among employees. These images

Frank Skinner has paid tribute to comedian Gareth Richards as he introduced a special edition of a podcast featuring the best bits of the radio show they co-hosted. Richards’ death was announced yesterday almost two weeks after he suffered brain injuries in a motorway crash. Describing Richards as a “former colleague and dear friend”, Skinner

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Comedian Gareth Richards, a former radio co-host of Frank Skinner, has died almost two weeks after suffering brain injuries in a motorway crash. Skinner broke down in tears live on his show in the days after the collision as he told listeners that his friend was fighting for his life. Richards died of his injuries

Polestar opened a new “Polestar Space” in South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, CA this week, and we stopped by to have a look at the upcoming Polestar 3 SUV and Polestar Roadster concept, which will become the Polestar 6. South Coast Plaza is an upscale mall in an upscale area, so it’s not a

Pop acts including members of Steps and Blue have spoken of their heartbreak over the death of S Club 7 star Paul Cattermole. The singer, whose cause of death is unknown, was found at his home in Dorset on Thursday afternoon. His family and S Club 7 announced on Friday that he died unexpectedly, months

With new electric vehicle sales approaching a record 7% of the total US auto market, the used EV market is beginning to pick up. According to new data from Cox Automotive, used EV sales were up 32% in the first quarter, with a clear new path to increase rapidly. Although used EV sales have lagged

* Warning – this article contains an account of disordered eating “I’m super exhaustingly deep,” says Che Lingo, smiling. “But I’m learning to know when to just go with it.” The south London rapper has been talking for almost an hour and could probably keep going for a while. This is a man who has

The big screen is going back long, long ago, to a galaxy far, far away, as three new Star Wars films have been announced by Lucasfilm. The three movies will take place at different stages of the Star Wars timeline, and will be directed by James Mangold, fresh from the new Indiana Jones film, and

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Sam Neill has told Sky News he is “absolutely fine” following the revelation he had been treated for blood cancer. The Jurassic Park star said he had been suffering from stage three blood cancer, while promoting his new book – which he wrote while he was undergoing chemotherapy. Speaking to Sky News in a UK

The US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has okayed the construction of turbines at the US’ first commercial offshore wind farm. Now that the BSEE has completed its 60-day review of South Fork’s Facility Design Report and Fabrication and Installation Report and given the offshore wind farm the all-clear,

It has been almost 30 years since one of the UK’s most notorious murder cases – the gangland shooting of three drug dealers whose bodies were found in a Range Rover parked up on farmland in a small village in Essex. Patrick Tate, 37, Tony Tucker, 38, and Craig Rolfe, 26, were each shot in

A man has pleaded guilty to providing actor Michael K Williams with fentanyl-laced heroin, which resulted in his death in 2021. Irvin Cartagena, 39, sold the drugs in “broad daylight” in New York City, according to lawyer Damien Williams, who said he was “feeding addiction and causing tragedy”. “In doing so, he dealt the fatal