Unit 1 of the UAE’s Barakah plant – the Arab world’s first nuclear power plant – is connected to the national power grid, in a historic moment, enabling it to supply clean electricity to millions of inhabitants and help the country’s confidence reduce oil-rich fossil fuels. “This is a major …
Read More »Germany and Detroit already have their own Teslas
(Bloomberg Opinion) – When financial types talk about internal combustion engines, they often just use the acronym ICE. It’s an appropriate name: investors have a frosty view of car companies relying on gasoline or diesel to steer their cars. Volkswagen AG, the world’s largest carmaker by sale, has a market …
Read More »A noble failure, just like the inventor
Photo: IFC In a touching scene that comes after the end of Michael Almereyda’s postmodern quasi-biopsy Tesla, the inventor Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) rushes to a tennis court where his former financier, the tycoon JP Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), is playing a game with his daughters. Speak through a chainlink gate, …
Read More »Zoo ‘Tiger King’ closes permanently, effectively right away
The exotic cat garden made famous by Netflix docuseries Tiger King has permanently closed. In a Facebook post to the page of the now-named Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, current owner Jeff Lowe (nemesis of arrest Tiger King star and former owner, Joe Exotic) said the zoo is closed to …
Read More »Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs iPhone 11 Pro Max: Camera shootout
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is one of the most versatile camera phones to date, but can the iPhone 11 Pro Max take off? The Note 20 Ultra comes to this battle with three rear cameras, including a 108 megapixel main wide-angle camera, a 12MP ultra wide camera and …
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