Here’s what we know about the new electric pickup truck coming from Ford early next year: It will have a starting price of $28,350 (plus a delivery charge of $1,595) with the standard battery and a single motor. Included in the price are bidirectional charging, BlueCruise, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, … [continued]
President Donald J. Trump welcomes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019, to the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joiyce N. Boghosian)
In March, after a trial that lasted seven weeks, a jury in New Mexico found that Meta had violated the state’s consumer protection laws by creating online products that are harmful to the mental health of children. The jury determined the company hid what it knew about the dangers of … [continued]
On March 6, 2024, Nathan Owen, a resident of the UK, phoned police and told them his Jaguar I-Pace electric car had gone berserk on a motorway in Merseyside, a seaside area that includes the city of Liverpool. He told the police his car had suddenly accelerated and he could … [continued]
The Collective Intelligence Project bills itself as an organization that is steering transformative AI towards better outcomes for everyone. In its latest study, which involved a survey of people in 70 countries, it reports “the decisions shaping AI are made by a small number of people but the consequences reach … [continued]
It is my considered opinion that all stock market investors are stark raving mad. As wildfires cause devastation on almost every continent and water levels in the Danube are too low to cool nuclear power plants in Hungary, stocks in New York hit an all time high on August 4, … [continued]
Changes in the Earth’s climate can be measured by satellites and sensors in the ocean, but they are hard for ordinary people to visualize — which makes them easy to ignore. Wildfires, on the other hand, do a splendid job of focusing our attention on the situation. Here is a … [continued]
I have a neighbor who often wears a T-shirt that says, “We The People Are Pissed Off!” I suspect it is meant to indicate his support for MAWA (Make America White Again), but it could just as easily apply to many in the US electorate today, as grocery prices, medical … [continued]
By all accounts, the Kia EV3 should be the perfect electric car for many US drivers. After all, it was named World Car of the Year in 2025. It is a thoroughly modern battery electric vehicle inside a compact SUV shell that faithfully follows the acclaimed design language of Kia’s … [continued]
Once upon a time, an immigrant named Elon Musk came to the US with a burning desire to do good, and he did right well. After making a small fortune at PayPal, he bought a startup called Tesla Motors and a defunct manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, then proceeded to … [continued]
For reasons that never quite made sense to me, people get all jiggly when the conversation turns to Tesla and its so-called “robotaxis.” Some act as if the thought of a car that picks you up and drives you to your chosen destination without a human driver — nothing less … [continued]
