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Every year, ahead of the biggest night in Hollywood, Academy Award nominees get invited to a special luncheon party. It’s become an annual tradition, the unofficial start of the countdown to the ceremony, with the stars mingling, eating a fancy meal, having their photos taken, and generally getting to know each other before the big

Zero emission electric Zamboni (Source: City of Mississauga) Electric vehicles are better for the climate and your health, with zero tailpipe emissions. Electric Zambonis are a perfect example since they often operate in an enclosed environment. Those ice resurfacers (or Zambonis as they are often referred to in tribute to American inventor and engineer Frank

Director Spike Lee has been given the British Film Institute’s highest honour – a fellowship. Throughout his career, the filmmaker has provoked debate and inspired progress with films including Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing and the Oscar-winning BlacKkKlansman. Now this accolade pays tribute to his four decades in the business – which has seen

“Beautiful, striking and petite,” Noor Inayat Khan was “the unlikeliest of spies”. An accomplished musician and children’s writer, described as “a daydreamer” by her friends, few would have foreseen that she would go on to earn the George Cross for her service to her country. Now, 80 years after her first mission, the little-known Second

Tesla is preparing to launch its new Autopilot hardware 4.0 upgrade, according to a filing with European regulators. The automaker is expected to announce a new Autopilot/Self-Driving hardware suite, which has been referred to as Hardware 4.0 (HW4), any day now. There have been quite a few indications that some major changes are coming. For

Rihanna has revealed she is pregnant again as she showed off a bump during her half-time show at what turned out to be a classic Super Bowl. The star had earlier said she was “thinking about bringing someone” – and when she opened her jacket and stroked her stomach during her big performance it started

David Jude Jolicoeur, known widely as Trugoy the Dove and one of the founding members of the US hip-hop trio De La Soul, has died. The 54-year-old’s representative, Tony Ferguson, confirmed his death, but gave no further details. In recent years, Jolicoeur had said he was battling congestive heart failure. De La Soul was part

Tesla’s important Full Self-Driving Beta v11 software update is delayed again as the automaker appears to have serious issues shipping it. Tesla FSD Beta v11 is both an exciting and scary step as it is supposed to merge Tesla’s FSD and Autopilot highway stacks. FSD Beta enables Tesla vehicles to drive autonomously to a destination

When we first reported on Southern California-based electric bicycle and motorcycle company SONDORS preparing for an IPO late last year, the company was expecting to hit a $10 per share price point in the $20M offering. But that number has since been revised to an estimate of $4-6 per share. And this isn’t the first

The BBC chairman’s position is becoming “increasingly untenable” after a committee of MPs found he made “significant errors of judgement” by facilitating a loan guarantee for Boris Johnson, a frontbench Labour MP has said. Lisa Nandy made the remarks on Sky News after it emerged Richard Sharp, who helped Mr Johnson secure an £800,000 loan,

A Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta smear campaign is reaching a whole new level as it is going to have a Super Bowl ad, according to the people behind the campaign. Last year, we reported on Dan O’Dowd, a self-described billionaire and founder of Green Hills Software, a privately-owned company that makes operating systems and programming tools. O’Dowd had

Harry Styles has cleaned up at the Brit Awards, winning all four prizes he was nominated for – and paying tribute to female stars as he collected the trophy for best artist. Styles is only the second-ever recipient of the award – merged from the best male and female act prizes in 2022 – and

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discuss the Tesla Cybertruck Beta, Tesla Master Plan Part 3, new Lexus EV and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel. As a reminder, we’ll have

Aptera’s new community funding program is just two weeks in, but it has raised $3 million of it’s $20-50 million goal. To incentivize further investment, the company is now offering new pieces of Aptera-branded swag to lead investors. Aptera announced the funding milestone today, though it wasn’t really a secret, as it has had a

Police in southern California say they are “hopeful” of finding missing actor Julian Sands, but admitted the outcome of the search “may not be what we would like”. Sands has not been seen for four weeks, after first being reported missing in the Mount Baldy region of the San Gabriel mountains on 13 January. “Regarding

A new Tesla Cybertruck beta prototype has been spotted and this time we get a good look at the front-end, which appears to have been updated, and it still has a monstrous windshield wiper. As we reported last week, we expected to start seeing a lot more Cybertruck sightings as the automaker is testing its

Jacob Rees-Mogg reimagined as a praying mantis, Priti Patel transformed into a bat and four Vladimir Putins – not many live shows can boast such a cast. But Spitting Image Live: Idiots Assemble has a unique advantage – the lead cast are all puppets. Comedians Al Murray and Matt Forde, the show’s co-writers, tell Sky

Ground-mount solar installer Sunstall has launched Sunzaun, a company that makes vertical solar systems for farms and agricultural settings. Sunzaun has designed its vertical solar systems for the growing field (no pun intended) of agrivoltaics – when agriculture and solar coexist on the same land. Crops are grown, or smaller animals such as sheep graze, around or

Alec Baldwin is facing a new civil lawsuit from relatives of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Ms Hutchins died in October 2021 after a prop gun, held by Baldwin, went off on set while the film Rust was being made in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Hollywood actor is being sued for alleged battery, intentional infliction of