From Indie Kylie to gold hotpants Kylie, can’t-get-her-out-of-our heads Kylie to Country Kylie, the star has always been a master of reinvention. Now, Kylie Minogue has ushered in the era of the Padam-ic, thanks to the summer heartbeat-pounding earworm that set TikTok alight and spent four weeks in the UK Top 10, her highest-charting single
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You may soon be able to lease a Rivian electric vehicle. Rivian’s CEO, RJ Scaringe, spoke about leasing and how it could unlock more price incentives for customers at Morgan Stanley’s 11th annual Laguna Conference. Rivian has intentionally held off on leasing because of its confidence in its vehicle’s residual values, according to Scaringe. Scaringe
You’re listening to The Streets, Mike Skinner told us back in 2001. Back then he was launching Original Pirate Material, the era-defining debut album that would become a cult classic and a best-seller, despite his lyrical assertion otherwise. Now, we will soon be watching on the big screen, too, as Skinner releases his debut film
Out of work British film and TV crew members are being forced to put their homes up for sale as a result of the knock-on effects of striking writers and actors in the US. Philippa Childs, the head of entertainment union BECTU, said some people are considering changing career. “I’ve had people saying to me
Elon Musk suggested that Tesla might offer an optional coating for Cybertruck that should make the electric pickup scratch-proof to everything except objects with diamond-level hardness. The Cybertruck’s design might be polarizing, but one thing that everyone agrees on is that its stainless steel exterior is rugged. Tesla wrote about the exterior toughness and durability
The BMW M3 sports sedan, the German automaker’s most iconic high-performance vehicle, is going electric. During a roundtable interview in Portugal this week, BMW’s product development chief, Frank Weber, confirmed the rumors. After rumors have been spreading about an electric M3 for months, the speculation is turning out to be true. Weber told auto reporters
Kanye West is being sued by a former employee who claims he was forced to work in dangerous conditions and sleep on the floor of a property the rapper was renovating. Tony Saxon claims he is owed $1m (£800,000) in unpaid wages and loss of earnings after working as a project manager, full-time security, and
It takes just minutes for the scenes to turn grim: a dirty trap house, a drug user injecting scabbed feet, a tiny baby crawling amid the filth. This is Trapping, a new British film starring MOBO-winning drill rapper Abra Cadabra and produced by filmmakers and grime pioneers Femi Oyeniran and Nicky “Slimting” Walker. Later this
Tesla (TSLA) is still the most shorted stock out of all the US large-caps, and Elon Musk suspects that Bill Gates still has a large position against the company. Shorts, people betting against the stock of a company, have long played a part in Tesla’s history on the stock market. Throughout the years, Tesla was
Drew Barrymore has been dropped as host of the National Book Awards ceremony in the US, after resuming filming of her talk show during the Hollywood writers’ strike. Barrymore has faced criticism and been accused of “scabbing” on social media after announcing the decision, and striking writers picketed the recording of the first show in
Swiss students just broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest accelerating EV in their hand-built electric car. The all-electric car crushed the previous record, running from 0 to 62 mph (0-100 km/h) in under a second. Swiss students break Guinness EV acceleration record Members of the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) from research university
The Pave BK is a premium 30 mph, fully street-legal motorbike that strikes a great balance between fun and utility. As someone who always checks the top speed specs first when looking at e-bikes, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that while the BK lacked in top speed, it more than made up for it
Repeatedly listening to your own 30-second track on Spotify won’t make you around £960 ($1,200) a month, the streaming giant’s chief executive has said. It comes after an analysis by JP Morgan, reported by the Financial Times, suggested the Swedish music firm’s royalty structure could be manipulated by artists, or even regular users. The newspaper
Aerosmith have been forced to postpone several dates on their farewell tour just a week after kicking off, after frontman Steven Tyler injured his vocal cords during a gig. The rock veterans started the Peace Out tour in Philadelphia on 2 September and were playing in New York when Tyler, 75, sustained the damage to
Tesla’s Cybertruck is just about ready to enter production, but a test vehicle was caught on video causing a potentially dangerous situation as its aerodynamic wheel cover came off in traffic, striking another vehicle and flying into the sky. Ever since it was originally unveiled, the Cybertruck has had some pretty cool-looking aerodynamic wheel covers.
A £5m mansion in Chiswick, west London – which used to belong to TV presenter Ant McPartlin – has been damaged by fire. Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters tackled the blaze in Grove Park Gardens, which was reported to London Fire Brigade at 9.46am. Image: Pic: X/@LondonFire Crews used a 32m (105ft) ladder