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A new champagne carpet, loads of newbies, a crisis team, and (organisers hope) no slaps this year – it’s time for the 2023 Academy Awards! While the Oscars is of course about celebrating the best films and performances of the year, there’s also a lot more to look out for than just the winners. The

Uh oh, I’ve done it again. I’ve fallen in love with another one of the victims subjects of my Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week series. It’s an odd mashup of a quad and a pickup truck, complete with dumping bed. It’s the opposite of a mullet: party in front, business in back!

In the Golden State – where it sometimes seems everyone looks like a movie star – it’s not only acting talent which stars are judged on for the Oscars, often it’s the scale of their transformation. This year’s nominations have been extraordinary in terms of the leading actors who’ve gone that extra mile. Step forward

Electrek spoke with Dr. Greg Hitz, founder and CTO at Beltsville, Maryland-based ION Storage Systems, about what solid state batteries are, why they’re considered the “unicorn” of battery technology, and why they have yet to hit the market, and how his company is working to move the needle. Electrek: Could you explain what solid state

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time that includes SONDORS selling 1,000 of its Metacycle electric motorcycles in a week, new utility/cargo e-bike launches from Rad Power Bikes, Specialized and Aventon, Bafang entering the electric motorcycle space and

The very first deployment of Siemens Gamesa’s 108-meter-long (354-feet-long) B108 recycled blades is headed to RWE’s 1.4 gigawatt (GW) Sofia offshore wind farm at Dogger Bank, off the UK’s east coast. In 2022, global renewable energy giant RWE became the first commercial, large-scale offshore developer to install Siemens Gamesa’s recycled blade technology RecyclableBlade, at its

Every single past Oscar nominee for Best Picture would still qualify under new diversity rules being introduced by the Academy Awards next year, according to its President, Janet Yang. Speaking exclusively to Sky News ahead of Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, when asked whether a film like All Quiet On The Western Front – top-heavy with white

Tesla has added a rare new paint color option, “Ultra Red,” available on the Model S and Model X built at Fremont Factory. Back in the early days of the Model S, Tesla used to offer a variety of colors, but the automaker decided to streamline options in order to facilitate production and service. It

The next electric Mini will come with much bigger battery options, more power, and a refreshed design when it hits the road in 2024. The car will have two battery options, 40kWh and 54kWh. These are significantly higher than the outgoing Mini‘s 32.6kWh battery. While we don’t yet have official range estimates on the EPA

The NHTSA announced that it is investigating the Tesla Model Y over a potential issue after two vehicles had their steering wheels fall off. In a new report, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wrote that it is aware of two reports of steering wheels completely falling off on 2023 Model Y vehicles: The

By the time the Academy Awards rolls out the red carpet each year, most stars in the running have spent months travelling the world, attending premieres and screenings, and schmoozing with industry VIPs to promote their films and themselves. Oscars campaigning is a multimillion-dollar industry. While the Academy has strict rules to help ensure standout

The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) has urged organisers of the Academy Awards to “review the eligibility” of the Top Gun sequel for this year’s ceremony, due to the film’s alleged ties to a Russian oligarch. Top Gun: Maverick, which sees star Tom Cruise return to the skies more than 30 years on from the original,

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There’s no doubt that this year’s Oscars frontrunner for best picture is not your standard awards fare. Everything Everywhere All At Once is an existential exploration of relationships and love via a launderette, taxes and the multiverse, with themes of nihilism and absurdism thrown in for good measure. The film’s writer-director duo, Daniel Kwan and

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony is almost upon us – the night the entire awards season has been building up to. The Oscars mark the culmination of months of campaigning and huge amounts of spending from studios, but unlike previous years, the 2023 shortlist comes with some uncertainty as to who will take home those

It’s the biggest night in showbiz, at the heart of which lies the greatest accolade for any actor – an Academy Award. Their performances have been judged by Hollywood’s great and good, and their teams have been campaigning for months – but who gets the gong on the night is yet to be revealed. So,

Martha Plimpton has played a host of roles across film, TV and stage throughout five decades, but for many she’ll always be associated with the role she played as a 14-year-old – Stef Steinbrenner in The Goonies. One of the most beloved films of the 1980s, many of the young teens who starred in it

General Motors has shared more details of the technology and future capabilities we can expect to see in its next-generation Ultra Cruise ADAS, which was originally announced during its GM Investor Day presentation last year. The technology will debut on the upcoming premium Cadillac Celestiq EV in early 2024, although the exact driver assistance capabilities

Haitian rapper and musician Wyclef Jean officially launched the Attucks Apex APO electric supercar at The Amelia in Florida Sunday, dubbed “the lightest-ever electric Supercar” on the market. Rapper Wyclef Jean launches an electric supercar Best known for his early days with the Fugees and later trailblazing his own solo path that includes timeless hits

Bruce Willis’s wife has asked paparazzi to “keep your space” and not yell at the actor, who was recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In an Instagram video, Emma Heming Willis said members of the press attempted to speak to her husband when he was getting coffee with friends. “If you are someone that is