A bitcoin sign is seen in the main hall during the Bitcoin 2024 conference at Music City Center July 26, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. Jon Cherry | Getty Images It was a week of extremes for bitcoin enthusiasts. On the plus side, the cryptocurrency rose 12% in the past seven days and the network hash
Chris Low, ESPN Senior WriterSep 13, 2024, 04:53 PM ET Close College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Georgia‘s repeated driving-related issues continued Thursday night when cornerback Daniel Harris was arrested and charged with reckless driving for going 106 miles per hour (41 mph over the speed limit) on
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has called for a tax on the wealthiest instead of cutting support for “struggling pensioners”. Speaking after arriving at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton on a jet ski, Sir Ed said his party is the only one offering up a solution on how to “plug the awful financial
Chad McQueen, who played the villain in The Karate Kid, has died aged 63. His wife and children shared a statement on Instagram on Thursday afternoon from McQueen’s verified account announcing the news with “a heavy heart”. “His remarkable journey as a loving father to us, along with his unwavering commitment to our mother, truly
Sep 13, 2024, 01:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Jack Draper was beaten in the GB’s second singles game against Argentina on Friday. Getty Team GB were beaten 2-0 by Argentina in their second Davis Cup group tie on Friday and failed to reach the knockout stages at the first time of asking. British No.1 Jack
A police dog injured during violent disorder in Southport has retired from service. Zoe needed stitches after suffering a laceration to her leg during disorder involving hundreds of people on 30 July. Mersey Police Dogs said the animal was now “fit and well” but added it would “never ask our dogs to do something they
Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterSep 13, 2024, 07:25 PM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Open Extended Reactions ATLANTA — The thought of Shohei Ohtani pitching in the playoffs is suddenly not impossible, even if it
A new Toyota electric crossover SUV is about to hit the world’s largest EV market. The Toyota bZ3C leaked in China on Friday, showing a familiar look. The new electric crossover SUV was developed with China’s leading EV maker, BYD. Toyota bZ3C leaked, revealing new electric SUV in China Toyota introduced the bZ3C concept at
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brazil’s supreme court announced Friday that it ordered banks to transfer funds from Starlink and X accounts to pay fines the court levied against Elon Musk’s social
Last weekend, the head of the CIA said Western allies should not be intimidated by Vladimir Putin’s threats when making decisions on how best to support Ukraine. “Putin’s a bully. He’s going to continue to sabre rattle from time to time,” Bill Burns said in a joint appearance in London with his British counterpart, Sir
Tesla Semi Courtesy: Tesla A single-vehicle collision last month involving a Tesla Semi electric truck took 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish and required aircraft to dump fire retardant overhead, according to a preliminary report on Friday from the National Transportation Safety Board. The crash, which occurred on California’s Interstate 80 west of Lake Tahoe,
Toyota’s former CEO and current chairman, Akio Toyoda, is heading to South Korea next month for a strategic meeting with Hyundai. With a private meeting scheduled between company chairpersons, is a new Toyota and Hyundai EV collaboration coming? On his first trip to Seoul in over a decade, Toyoda is scheduled to meet with Hyundai
In a surprising move, Tesla announced that it is looking to sell its very first virtual power plant, which is operating in South Australia. Tesla has a long history with the energy industry in Australia, where it launched several first projects, such as its “big battery” project. South Australia, in particular, has a lot of
BYD is no stranger to seated electric scooters, having already joined a partnership leveraging its batteries for Singapore-based Scorpio’s high-performance electric scooters. But the carmaker might be interested in producing its own electric motorbikes in house, as revealed by new patent drawings. Spotted by Motorcycle Sports, the patent drawings reportedly suggest a motorbike that would
Several EV models sold with over $10,000 in incentives in July, driving registrations up 18% from last year in the US. Kia’s new EV9 was among the most heavily discounted, selling with over $19,700 in incentives. Other models, like the Honda Prologue and Volkswagen ID.4, were also heavily discounted, which helped spark growth. US EV
A teacher who held a placard at a pro-Palestinian protest depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts has been found not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence. Warning: This article contains language some may find offensive Marieha Hussain, 37, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, had denied the prosecution’s allegation that the placard
In this article AMZN ORCL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Larry Ellison, Chief technology officer of Oracle (L), and Jeff Bezos, founder, executive chairman of Amazon. Reuters Oracle‘s best week on the stock market since 2021 has bolstered Chairman Larry Ellison’s net worth, briefly edging him past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Friday to
In this article ADBE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen speaks during an interview with CNBC on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, Feb. 20, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Shares of Adobe fell more than 9% on Friday, a day after the software company
China will begin raising the retirement age for the first time in more than 70 years as the 1.4bn-strong country faces a shrinking and ageing population. China’s legislature, known as the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, has signed off a new policy which will see retirement age rise for both men and women
In this article GOOGL UBER Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle sits parked at an EVgo charging station in Los Angeles, California, on May 15, 2024. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Uber announced Friday it is expanding its partnership with Alphabet’s Waymo to offer robotaxi