Category: news
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Musk unveils $30,000 Tesla self-driving Cybercab and Robovan
After a decade of unfulfilled promises about driverless vehicles, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hyped the company’s Cybercab concept on Thursday night, showing off a low, silver two-seater with no steering wheels or pedals. Rolling up to the stage in a Cybercab almost an hour after the company’s “We, Robot” event was supposed to begin, Musk said the company had…
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Taiwan says four Foxconn staff detained in China under ‘strange’ circumstances
TAIPEI — Four employees of Taiwan‘s Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, have been detained in China under “quite strange” circumstances, Taiwan’s government said. Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, in a statement to Reuters on Thursday, said the four employees had been detained in China’s Zhengzhou, home to a major Foxconn plant assembling Apple’s iPhones, on…
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Solar storm brings northern lights as far south as Texas
A severe geomagnetic storm brought spectacular light displays to many parts of the United States on Thursday night, with skies as far south as San Antonio bathed in rich hues of magenta and green. The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights as they are commonly known, are often more visible in Earth’s polar regions, but due…
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Nobel Peace Prize winner is Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo. “This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must…
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‘The Apprentice’ hits theaters amid fury from Trump’s campaign ahead of the 2024 election
No movie on the fall calendar has stoked as much prerelease controversy as “The Apprentice,” an R-rated dramatization of the early years of Donald Trump that hits theaters on Friday, 25 days before the presidential election. Nearly every major Hollywood distributor and streaming service refused to touch “The Apprentice” after it premiered at the Cannes…
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Hurricane Helene rips apart N.C. farm that feeds 1,500 people in a food desert each week
The Rev. Richard Joyner ventured down to his small community farm in Conetoe, North Carolina, after the deadly Hurricane Helene ripped through six states before it dissipated late last month. Joyner, 71, is used to flooding brought on by extreme weather in the hurricane-prone state. But this time was different. He has seen areas of…
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Hurricane Helene upends Trump and Harris’ plans for North Carolina
The unprecedented destruction Hurricane Helene has wreaked on western North Carolina could take months, if not years, to rebuild. Entire communities are destroyed, and scores of residents are displaced. With the presidential election in less than 26 days, both parties are scrambling to contend with the unpredictable political fallout. For Vice President Kamala Harris, who…
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Beirut reels from deadly Israeli strike; Iran warns Arab states not to help Israel attack
Beirut reels from deadly Israeli strike; Iran warns Arab states not to help Israel attack
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Hurricane Milton live updates: Death and destruction as Florida begins long recovery
Hurricane Milton live updates: Death and destruction as Florida begins long recovery
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2 dead after a hydrogen sulfide leak at a Houston-area Pemex facility
Two people died and more than two dozen were treated Thursday when a chemical leaked at an industrial plant, Texas officials said. A hydrogen sulfide leak was reported Thursday evening at a Pemex facility in the Houston suburb of Deer Park, the city said. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said workers were working on a…