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Sky History has axed its new woodworking show The Chop after producers said a contestant’s tattoos “could be connected to far-right ideologies”. The reality show – which was in the style of The Great British Bake Off – was on the hunt for “Britain’s top woodworker”, and featured 10 contestants taking on challenges in Epping

Tesla is apparently starting to test discounted rates at Supercharger stations in order to offset expensive peak demand charges. Do you think it’s going to work? Electric utilities are making large energy users pay ‘demand charges’ during peak use that can be quite taxing, especially to charging station operators. Charging stations by nature suffer from

Twenty years ago, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett created a visionary concept: the virtual band. As all of us have learnt a fair bit about living virtually this year, the conception of the Gorillaz – a band made up of a musician, a cartoonist and four cartoon members – now seems particularly prescient. Albarn tells

In the September of 1989, a show about a group of lifeguards patrolling the beaches of Los Angeles first hit TV screens in America. Sun, sea and (ever-shrinking) swimsuits, Baywatch was the series that would go on to become the biggest of its era, beaming the California dream into millions of living rooms around the

Tesla has told staff that it is preparing a massive push to expand service capacity as it attempts to catch up to its rapid growth in sales. Over the last few years, Tesla has been growing at a ferocious pace with deliveries and production capacity seeing important increases. Now the Tesla customer fleet has reached

Tesla has decided to offer a radio retrofit as an option with its infotainment retrofit after complaints from some owners. It’s not cheap at $500. In recent years, Tesla has launched several new features that require more computing power and even with Tesla’s famous over-the-air software updates, owners of older vehicles couldn’t get those features.

Jeremy Kyle is an “interested person” in the inquest of a guest on his show who was found dead shortly after attending a filming, the court has heard. The preliminary hearing is being held into the death of 63-year-old Stephen Dymond, who died of a morphine overdose and a heart problem seven days after appearing

Tracey Emin has revealed she was diagnosed with cancer and had a stoma operation earlier this year. In a new interview, the British artist said she had “half my body chopped out, including half my vagina” after being diagnosed during lockdown. Speaking to art market news site Artnet, the 57-year-old said she had been working

The electric bicycle boom in the United States is bigger than we thought, and it’s only getting bigger. When the US economy began feeling the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic this past February and March, many in the e-bike industry feared the worst. At least until we witnessed an unexpected twist of fate. E-bikes, much

Comic Relief will stop sending celebrities to film appeals in Africa after criticism of “white saviour” stereotypes.  It comes after TV presenter and Strictly Come Dancing winner Stacey Dooley travelled to the continent for the charity last year, prompting accusations that she was perpetuating “tired and unhelpful stereotypes”. Labour MP David Lammy, who is of

Kim Kardashian West has angered social media users with pictures of her “humble” birthday celebrations on a private island. The reality TV star, who recently turned 40, has been called “insensitive” for sharing a series of snaps from the luxury birthday break, made possible by two weeks of “multiple health screens” for her closest circle.

George Hotz, CEO of comma.ai, argues that Tesla should sell its self-driving computer chip and create some competition to Nvidia in the process. Hotz rose to fame through his hacking feats as a teen, but more recently, he has become a highly respected programmer and he founded comma.ai, which aims to solve self-driving while delivering

Chrissy Teigen has explained why she made intimate pictures of the loss of her baby son public, saying “I knew I needed to know of this moment forever”. The TV personality and cookbook author announced she and husband John Legend had lost their third child, a boy named Jack, shortly after his birth late last

Where they can get away with it, certain legacy carmakers are still perfectly content to be dragged, kicking and screaming, toward electrification. Curiously though, there are instances in which the self-same car companies that make little effort in their home country can’t resist the revenues on offer in nations with significant EV sales. Numerous of them have fought

Elisabeth Moss has a history of playing women who fight back against the male-dominated environments they find themselves in. Fans of Mad Men will remember her as Peggy, the first female writer at the ad firm the series is set around, while millions also know her as June – the handmaid desperate to escape in

Johnny Depp is finally set to find out if he has won his blockbuster libel case against The Sun over an article labelling him a “wife beater”, with a date now announced for the ruling. The high-profile trial unfolded over three weeks at the Royal Courts Of Justice in London in July, after the Hollywood