Serial was the hit podcast that truly kickstarted true crime as an entertainment genre – and altered the course of justice as a direct result. It may have started the ball rolling, but Serial is far from the only show to take a true crime case and turn it into content for our listening and
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Elon Musk said that Tesla is borrowing the Autopilot team for its Optimus humanoid robot project, which has a deadline at the end of the month. The CEO has said that the Tesla Bot project has become a priority. Tesla’s approach to selling Autopilot, and now its Full Self-Driving (FSD) package features before they are
Jeff Bridges’ new TV show was still in production when the veteran actor was diagnosed with lymphoma. He was given the news in 2020 as filming was on hold due to the pandemic – which led to what he describes as a two-year “health adventure”. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Bridges says: “I got cancer
A hacker has leaked early footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, the next instalment of the popular video game series. The leak, including dozens of videos showing robberies, gunplay, and open-world driving, was posted to an online message board. Rockstar Games, the studio behind the game, said on Twitter on Monday: “We recently suffered a
Tesla has decided to expand its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta program for the first time in a long time. After adding 60,000 additional owners, Tesla’s FSD Beta will have over 160,000 people in the program. The FSD Beta program enables Tesla vehicles to drive autonomously to a destination entered in the car’s navigation system, but
The biggest downside to all of the cool and wild electric vehicles I regularly find as part of the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column is that most would never be street legal. But this fun-looking little flatbed trike truck seems to have solved that problem, at least in name only. The
Urban electric bikes designed for quickly navigating the city are the perfect solution for drivers that want to switch to a more efficient and more fun transportation alternative. And the Aventon Pace 500 Step-Through has just what commuters need all in one package. Anytime we get a chance to throw a leg over the Aventon
Victoria Beckham has hailed Queen Elizabeth as a “powerful source of inspiration”, calling her the “ultimate icon” who was “never without her signature lipstick”. The former Spice Girl turned fashion designer, 48, said she has spent the last week reflecting on the monarch’s death in a post to her 30 million followers on Instagram. It
Lady Gaga has cut short her final Chromatica Ball world tour performance in Miami after a lightning storm forced her from the stage. The Born This Way singer shared an emotional video on Instagram, apologising to her 53 million followers and telling them it wasn’t safe for the show to carry on as “even when
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Tesla announced that Gigafactory Texas has produced its 10,000th Model Y electric SUV as it ramps up production. One of the biggest stories at Tesla right now is the production ramps that the automaker is trying to simultaneously achieve at Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas. Those two factories are expected to roughly double Tesla’s production
Equally important as adopting renewables is ensuring the buildings they power are also sustainable. Electrek spoke with Breana Wheeler, US director of operations at BREEAM, the world’s first green building certification program, about what the ideal decarbonized building looks like and how US real estate investors should see climate change as an opportunity. Electrek: What
The Phantom of the Opera – Broadway’s longest-running show in history – is scheduled to close its doors after 35 years. The musical, which has been an iconic fixture since 1988, will play its final performance on 18 February 2023, a spokesperson said. It is the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic cooling of theatre
A sombre and solitary silhouette in black opened Paul Costelloe’s Spring/Summer ’23 catwalk show, one of many designers paying tribute to the Queen at London Fashion Week. Costelloe, who has dressed many Royals from Princess Diana to Zara Philips and Sarah Ferguson, told Sky News the Queen was a huge inspiration to British fashion, especially
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A former BBC radio DJ has been jailed for five years and 26 weeks after being convicted of four stalking charges againast broadcasters including Jeremy Vine. Alex Belfield, 42, was found guilty at a trial at Nottingham Crown Court last month of waging a relentless stalking campaign, with Vine labelling him “the Jimmy Savile of