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A 35-year-old suspect’s arrest and release in Gothenburg, Sweden, has coincided with a flurry of Tesla arson attacks—four in two days. Thursday’s opening salvo: Two Teslas were set fire on Thursday—one in an Avenyn parking garage, another in a Linnéstaden lot. Police noted that both incidents were likely arson, as there seems to be no natural explanation for the fires. Firefighters were able to extinguish the blazes out fast, which suggests that the fires did not extend to the affected Teslas’ high-voltage battery. Arrest and release: As noted in a CarUp report, authorities were able to arrest a suspected perpetrator following the…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. Crypto analyst Ali Martinez has revealed a bearish on-chain metric for Dogecoin, sparking a negative outlook for the foremost meme coin. Based on this, DOGE could be at risk of suffering further price declines. Dogecoin’s Activity Levels Crash To 4-Month Lows In an X post, Martinez revealed that Dogecoin’s network activity has dropped to its lowest level since October 2024, with just 66 whale transactions and fewer than 60,000 active addresses daily. Bitcoinist had also recently reported that DOGE’s large transactions had dropped by 88% since the end of last year. Related Reading…
RWE has commissioned its first solar plant in Italy. The 8.3MW Bosco ground-mounted solar plant consists of around 15,000 bifacial modules, located on a 16-hectare site in the municipality of Partinico near Palermo, Sicily. Thanks to the implementation of a new accelerated permitting process in Italy, RWE was able to achieve ready-to-build in less than 18 months. Construction took around 10 months. In order to optimise the use of land and resources, as well as to tackle grid scarcity, the Bosco solar plant uses the existing nearby RWE substation in Partinico, from which the local RWE wind farms already…
Confusion and chaos loom as hundreds of thousands of federal employees begin their workweek on Monday facing a deadline from President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting chief, Elon Musk, to explain their recent accomplishments or risk losing their jobs.Musk’s unusual demand has faced resistance from several key U.S. agencies led by the president’s loyalists — including the FBI, State Department, Homeland Security and the Pentagon — which instructed their employees over the weekend not to comply. Lawmakers in both parties said that Musk’s mandate may be illegal, while unions are threatening to sue. Other news we’re following today:Trump meets with Macron: Trump…
Far-left Dem rips Elon Musk as a ‘Nazi nepo baby’ Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram discusses Democrats slowing the confirmation process for President Donald Trump’s nominees as ‘Squad’ member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., trashes Elon Musk at a rally. Conservative influencer Ashley St. Clair filed a petition on Friday to legally recognize tech billionaire Elon Musk as her child’s father and seek full custody.The legal action comes weeks after the 26-year-old posted on X that she had the child allegedly fathered by Musk in secret five months ago.”Five months ago, I welcomed a new baby into the world,”…
Google has revealed the pricing to generate videos using its latest Veo 2 artificial intelligence (AI) model. The Mountain View-based tech giant will charge users generating video via its Vertex AI platform $0.50 (roughly Rs. 43) per second. This will shoot up to $30 (roughly Rs. 2,600) for a minute-long video generated using the AI model. This is not a consistent pricing as the company is also offering Veo 2 to select YouTube creators to generate video clips for Shorts without any charge.Google’s Veo 2 AI Model Pricing on Vertex AI RevealedOn its pricing page, the tech giant has now…
The journalist in him, as he sits in the editor’s chair at The Spectator, knows that if he employed fact-checkers, they would be overwhelmed correcting the torrent of lies that emanate from the mouth of Donald Trump – and the keyboard of Elon Musk. He knows Trump is lying when he blames Ukraine for starting the war with Russia, or claims that Volodymyr Zelensky has a 4 per cent approval rating, or that Ukraine’s president was sleeping when he was supposed to meet US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent. He also knows that Musk has turned X (formerly Twitter) into a…
Tesla’s official Supercharger account on X has confirmed that the electric vehicle maker will be filing legal action against people who vandalize the company’s property. The comment was posted as a response to an X post about a Supercharger stall that was vandalized with Nazi graffiti. The incident: As could be seen in a photo posted by X user @SnazzyLabs, a Supercharger stall was vandalized with the word “Nazi” and a swastika.“This graffiti at my local Supercharger would suggest that perhaps Elon Musk is damaging Tesla’s brand,” the X user wrote.In a follow-up post, the X user noted that the…
WASHINGTON — Australian company Gilmour Space is targeting the middle of March for the first flight of its Eris rocket, while setting expectations for the vehicle’s debut.Gilmour Space announced Feb. 24 that the launch window for the first launch of Eris, called TestFlight 1, will open March 15 from the company’s launch site, Bowen Orbital Spaceport in northern Queensland. The announcement came after the company finalized airspace arrangements with Australian aviation regulators.The company received a launch license from the Australian Space Agency in November. At the time, the company was projecting a launch as soon as early December, but said…