Tesla buys new plot for its first China factory
10/17/2018, 8:36:24 AMTesla successfully acquired an 864,885-square meter plot in Shanghai's Lingang area for the electric car maker's new factory. ✔ The facility will initially have capacity for about 250,000 vehicles and battery packs a year, and plans to eventually double that, the release said ✔ Baillie Gifford, Tesla's largest outside investor, disclosed earlier this month an 11.4 percent stake in Nio
Turbinator II Race Car Hits 503 MPH at Bonneville Salt Flats | Digital Trends
10/17/2018, 2:58:44 PMThe Turbinator II is a four-wheel drive streamliner powered by a 5,000-horsepower helicopter engine, and it just achieved 503.332 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats. That's an unofficial record for a wheel-driven car. Turbinator II's creators have been trying to surpass 500 mph for 20 years. ✔ Turbinator II uses a Lycoming turbine engine from a Chinook helicopter, producing 5,000 horsepower ✔ Ritter said 600 mph is plausible in the future, but floods like the one that scuttled Team Vesco’s official record this year are becoming a more common occurrence
2018 Ford Mustang GT long-term review: A lot to love and a little to hate - Roadshow
10/17/2018, 12:25:45 PMAfter two months of pony car hijinks, we say goodbye. ✔ The slightly longer commitment was fitting and welcome, especially given the Mustang's noteworthy 2018 performance updates ✔ That's a shame, because the Mustang GT's standard line lock feature could have helped me turn in marginally more respectable quarter-mile times with warm rear rubber ✔ But for all of those cases, I wish our car had the manual transmission
BMW’s brand new seven-seater X7 4x4 is uber luxurious - but it’ll cost you over £72,000
10/17/2018, 12:43:31 PMBMW has unveiled the brand new X7 – a seven-seater 4×4 that is full of tech and a plush interior. Starting from £72,155, the first-ever X7 hopes to take on the Range Rover Sport and Merc… ✔ Climate control is divided into four sections, with the optional Ambient Air package providing eight different scents ✔ Three X7 models will come to the UK - the entry-level diesel xDrive30d, the petrol xDrive40i and the sporty M50d that costs from £87,240 ✔ Boot capacity is 326 litres and increases to 2,120 litres when the two back rows' seats are folded down
Eco-friendly fuel cell car which filters dirty air into a balloon
10/17/2018, 3:32:13 PMThe car, pictured outside University College London, travelled through the capital's most polluted spots including Oxford Street, Park Lane and Marylebone Road. ✔ 'We believe that the availability of alternatives, like the NEXO fuel cell electric vehicle, will bring the UK closer to its zero emissions future.' The dirty particles were filtered out through the car's filtration system - which removed 99.9 per cent of the pollutants - and emitted into the second balloon 'However, the responsibility for this cannot only rest with us, the manufacturer
Lyft Launches All-Access Plan Monthly Ride Subscription | Digital Trends
10/17/2018, 3:12:55 PMLyft wants you to save money by using rideshare services instead of owning a car. The new Lyft All-Access Plan monthly rideshare trip subscription includes 30 rides a month with a small discount for additional trips. You don't save money on subscription plan rides but bulk ride purchases can help with budgeting. ✔ Lyft presents the All-Access Plan as a way to save money, though the savings are in comparison to the monthly expenses of car ownership ✔ In response to the impending market change, Mercedes, Porsche, Audi, Lincoln, Volvo, and others have launched their own vehicle subscription plans
Tesla Advances in China, Buying Land Purchase for a Factory
10/17/2018, 10:27:38 AMElon Musk’s electric-vehicle maker is speeding up construction of a plant in Shanghai in response to the U.S.-China trade dispute. ✔ Telsa will wholly own the facility, which is intended to produce up to 500,000 cars a year by the end of the decade ✔ In a third-quarter production update this month, Tesla said it was accelerating construction of our Shanghai factory in response to the U.S.-China trade dispute ✔ Auto analysts say it will take two or three years for Tesla to begin Chinese production
An Uber driver has been charged with kidnapping and groping a woman after she fell asleep in his car
10/17/2018, 1:38:58 PMHarbir Parmar, 24, was charged by prosecutors in New York with one count of kidnapping the woman after picking her up in February this year, according to legal documents published on Tuesday. ✔ It says the woman was picked up in Manhattan, asked to go to White Plains, and ultimately found herself in Branford, Connecticut ✔ Google Maps She tried to use her phone to call for help, but Parmar snatched it away, the complaint says ✔ We have fully cooperated with law enforcement and will continue to support their investigation
Driving the ultimate real-life Forza Horizon 4 road trip
10/17/2018, 1:40:17 PMA ferocious sports car and 1,000 miles of beautiful British roads. Bring it on. ✔ With the release of Forza Horizon 4, the open-world racing game series arrives in Britain, letting you tear around the green and pleasant land with reckless abandon, power sliding across fields and launching through endless farmyard gates ✔ Andrew Hoyle/CNET Glen Coe isn't specifically referenced in the game, but you will find Glen Rannoch in the Northern part of the map
Bloodhound land speed record attempt goes into receivership
10/17/2018, 1:17:57 PMBloodhound is bust. ✔ And when, last October, I witnessed Andy Green reach 210mph in Bloodhound at Newquay aerodrome, I was but a tiny part of the crowd that had paid and patiently waited in the drizzle to see that run, and a minuscule part of the online community of enthusiastic folk inspired by what the team were trying to do
HTC U12 Life review
10/17/2018, 3:56:18 PMIs there life in this phone? ✔ It's slimmer, the camera arrangement is different, and the back feels like plastic rather than the glass it actually is ✔ As the build is not particularly competitive, you had better love its look ✔ Its top part is ultra-glossy, and looks a little like colored glass ✔ It's kind of annoying, indicative of a lack of software intelligence
Google's Chrome now lets you unlink your web and browser sign-ins
10/17/2018, 12:27:17 PMThe Chrome update that lets you check your Gmail without signing into your browser is now available. ✔ Unfortunately, its implementation is far from perfect: it will only give you a choice to opt out of automatic Chrome sign-in instead of having it switched off by default ✔ If that's not a huge issue, though, you can find the option to opt out in Preferences under the Privacy and Security section
Get this $260 Philips Sonicare alternative for just $50
10/17/2018, 3:18:04 PMPhilips Sonicare is the category leader for electric toothbrushes, and for good reason. However, while their latest models pack in high tech features like mobil... ✔ Philips Sonicare is the category leader for electric toothbrushes, and for good reason ✔ Thanks to the included UV sanitizing charging case, your brush heads will stay clean and bacteria free for longer, and the battery lasts up to 40 uses on a single charge
Epic Games Sues YouTube Users Over Fortnite Cheating Videos | Digital Trends
10/17/2018, 3:12:53 PMEpic Games has filed a lawsuit against two YouTube users for their role in promoting cheating and hacking tools for Fortnite via a YouTube channel and personal website. As of now, the channel is still live, and the defendant continues to upload and promote videos openly showing players cheating in the game. ✔ In a rundown of the facts of the case included in the legal filing, Epic Games also took the time to throw a little more shade at Conter and Lucas ✔ This hasn’t stopped Lucas from uploading several videos to his channel detailing his cheating practices ✔ Fortnite is available now on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android
Cyclists could be fined up to £1,000 for this common traffic light mistake
10/17/2018, 10:05:46 AMBRITISH cyclists could find themselves on the wrong end of a hefty penalty for making this common mistake when stopped at traffic lights. Any rider who creeps over a white stop line at a red light … ✔ This means that while you may be allowed to move ahead of the traffic where there is an advanced stop line, if you move past this point or try to push ahead of traffic at a normal red light, you could be fined by police ✔ Stop lines are positioned for a reason, and some have been modified to allow cyclists to position themselves in the advanced area, but we would encourage anyone doing this to make sure they stay within this area until the lights change and you can see it is safe to proceed
Pro gamer reveals the REAL reason he broke up with world's hottest weathergirl
10/17/2018, 10:58:04 AMRETIRED Call of Duty pro gamer Censor has revealed in an emotional YouTube video the real reason he broke up with Yanet Garcia, dubbed the world’s hottest weathergirl. He claims that their re… ✔ RETIRED Call of Duty pro gamer Censor has revealed in an emotional YouTube video the real reason he broke up with Yanet Garcia, dubbed the world's hottest weathergirl ✔ The final straw came, he claims, when he told her he wanted to buy a car for her to use -- but would only do so if he could film it and post it to YouTube because it would make great content
Tesla buys the land it needs for its Shanghai Gigafactory
10/17/2018, 12:51:13 PMTesla paid over $140 million for the plot of land at auction. ✔ With the new agreement, the company says it's on track to achieving its goal of gaining a foothold in China, the world's largest market for electric vehicles ✔ It needs to rustle up a billion dollars for creditors before the year is out, reports Business Insider -- a sum it currently doesn't have ✔ pic.twitter.com/gHSbjqnbcR YUAN TALKS (@YuanTalks) October 17, 2018
The Morning After: Robot Dance
10/17/2018, 10:33:58 AMHey, good morning! You look fabulous. Facebook's next big launch is... The Real World? We'll explain. Also, it's time to look inside Google's new Pixel 3, and... ✔ Soul Train Hey, good morning! You look fabulous ✔ And Twitter's iOS notifications got weird.Outage pulls the plug on YouTube Last night, all of YouTube's services -- including live TV and music -- went offline for a little over an hour ✔ Compared to paying for a car note, insurance, parking, gas and everything else, maybe some would find it worthwhile -- and you don't even have to do the driving
How AI is creating new threats to election security
10/17/2018, 3:36:13 PMBig data and artificial intelligence will expose old vulnerabilities and create new methods of hacking campaigns ✔ Campaign 2018: Election Hacking is a weekly series from CBS News & CNET about the cyber-threats and vulnerabilities of the 2018 midterm election ✔ READ: Hackers, trolls and the fight over your vote in the 2018 midterm elections According to Akamai's data, botnets are responsible for nearly 300,000 malicious login attempts every hour
Chinese search firm Baidu joins global AI ethics body
10/17/2018, 12:06:36 PMCompany is first Chinese member of Partnership on AI, following, Google, Apple, Facebook and others ✔ I think it’s important to acknowledge that there are substantial cultural and policy differences between the west and the east, said the partnership’s executive director, Terah Lyons ✔ Its self-driving car project led to the creation of Apollo, an open-source autonomous driving platform, while the company also runs DuerOS, a voice-enabled digital assistant, and Baidu ABC, a smart cloud aimed at businesses
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Space startup Rocket Lab will build a second launch site in Virginia
10/17/2018, 2:10:29 PMSoon, the company will be able to launch from the US and New Zealand ✔ It’s very difficult to achieve a high launch cadence when you’re also building a factory and moving factories and mission control ✔ We’ve been to orbit, the vehicle is good, and this next big milestone has been completed, which is scaling to really make this a regular reliable service
Shocking #MeToo interactive map shows that India has the most searches
10/17/2018, 3:12:48 PMToday all of the top five cities searching for #MeToo were in India leaving the country glowing brighter than any other. ✔ India ranked as the most dangerous on three issues - the risks women face from sexual violence and harassment, from cultural and traditional practices, and from human trafficking including forced labour, sex slavery and domestic servitude ✔ It (rape) must have happened, but someone else would have done it,' Nath told an Indian news channel
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