Monthly Archives: January 2019
Tesla is made in Fremont, so it's not surprising local police bought a Model S patrol car
Fremont, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay Area is home to electric car company Tesla’s massive vehicle factory and it’ll soon be the home to what’s believed to be the first U.S. police department with a Tesla in its fleet. Fremont police bought a used 2014 Tesla Model S 85 kWh battery version from Tesla […]
Electrify America charging network unplugs most of its fast charging stations
Electrify America has electric car charging stations around the country, but on Friday many of the plugs were pulled offline. A notice went out Friday that the Volkswagen-backed charging network was shutting down most of its high-powered chargers across the U.S. because of a safety issue with liquid-cooling cables from Huber+Suhner. The Swiss company supplies […]
NFL notebook: T.O. says Brown wants out of Pittsburgh
Calling himself a mentor of Antonio Brown, Hall of Famer Terrell Owens said Friday that the wideout “wants to move on” from the Pittsburgh Steelers, in part because of a fractured relationship with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
Backing down, Trump agrees to end shutdown without border wall money
President Donald Trump agreed under mounting pressure on Friday to end a 35-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without getting the $5.7 billion he had demanded from Congress for a border wall, handing a political victory to Democrats.
U.S. set to send first group of asylum seekers back to Mexico
The United States was expected to send a first group of 20 Central American asylum seekers back to Mexico through the border city of Tijuana on Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s hardening of longstanding U.S. immigration policy.
How to actually get your finances in order for 2019
Why is it that we were taught the intricacies of square dancing in grade school but not even so much as an introduction to what a 401k is during our formative years? Why was it embedded in our brains that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell but we have no clue about the basics […]
Zac Efron as Ted Bundy is here in shudder-inducing biopic trailer
“Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat!” Well, unless you get offered the juicy role of one of America’s most infamous murderers—then all bets are off. High School Musical, Baywatch, and Greatest Showman alum Zac Efron is shedding his handsome boy-next-door-ness to tackle the role of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy for a chilling new biopic. […]
50 percent of Facebook users could be fake, report claims
A long-running feud was thrust back into the spotlight today with a contentious report claiming that over half of Facebook’s monthly active users are actually fake. The report, written by Facebook critic Aaron Greenspan, alleges that the social media giant has no way to accurately measure its true user base — or in other […]
Zuckerberg is breaking promises to Instagram and WhatsApp. Be concerned.
Mark Zuckerberg is doing exactly what he promised Instagram and WhatsApp he wouldn’t: messing with their independence by creating one system to rule them all. The Facebook founder plans to bring the back ends of Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram closer together with that of his own social network, as Facebook has now confirmed to the […]
NFL notebook: Panthers quarterback Newton has shoulder surgery
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder Thursday.