If a week is a long time in politics, a few days in the I’m A Celebrity jungle is almost a lifetime. Former health secretary Matt Hancock joined the camp in Australia less than seven days ago as the most controversial and disliked contestant in the show’s 22-season history, but after gamely eating a camel’s
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Italian startup Energy Dome, maker of the world’s first CO2 battery, is officially entering the US market. Energy Dome’s battery uses carbon dioxide to store energy from wind and solar on the grid. World’s first CO2 battery Energy Dome announced earlier this month that it has been awarded funding and networking support from Hawaii and
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has told Sky News that playing Wembley Stadium is a “bucketlist” dream that was “hard to turn down”. Speaking shortly after the Britpop band made the announcement that they will play a one-off UK show at the venue in 2023, the musician revealed that organising the gig had gone “right up
Tesla is showing some strong resilience in California’s crashing car market and is helping boost EV market share to a new record. With the slowdown that came with the pandemic and the more recent supply chain issues, the auto industry has yet to go back to pre-2020 levels of deliveries. California New Car Dealers Association
Joe Lycett has threatened to shred £10,000 of his own money if David Beckham does not end his controversial multi-million-pound deal with Qatar to promote the World Cup. In an ultimatum posted on social media, the comedian also warned Beckham “your status as a gay icon will be shredded” if action was not taken. If
Tesla will assist Chinese authorities in investigating a dramatic Tesla Model Y crash in Guangdong, China, which killed two and injured three. But rumors have been flying on social media with potential causes of the crash, most of which are untrue or impossible. The accident happened on November 5, and video has been circulating on
Taylor Swift has dominated this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, taking home four of the six gongs she was up for – best artist, best video, best pop and best longform video. There had been high hopes for some of the British stars up for awards – including Adele, Ed Sheeran and Harry Styles, who
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With the opening of its proprietary charge connector, Tesla has confirmed its Supercharger is way more powerful than we previously thought. It points to up to 900 kW of potential total output. Yesterday, Tesla surprised many by announcing that it is opening its EV charge connector in the hope of making it the new standard
Matt Hancock was drenched in slime and custard and pelted with feathers as he took part in his fourth bushtucker trial on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! The former health secretary, 44, and his 23-year-old campmate Owen Warner, who plays Romeo Nightingale in Hollyoaks, were voted by the public to do Friday’s
Polestar (PSNY) recorded its first profit since going public in Q3 as the Swedish EV maker builds momentum heading into the end of 2022. Strategic cost-cutting measures and rising demand pushed Polestar into positive earnings territory as the company eyes 50,000 deliveries by year’s end while solidifying its position in the rapidly evolving global auto
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) – the largest utility in the United States – will launch a first-of-its-kind pilot program to determine whether closed coal ash storage sites can host utility-scale solar. Solar on coal ash sites Pending environmental reviews and regulatory approval, the $216 million pilot project would explore repurposing a capped 300-acre coal
Stars of a new theatre production based around the multimillion-pound Wagatha Christie libel trial hope audiences “go away with sympathy” for both Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney. West End audiences will soon see Lucy May Baker and Laura Dos Santos take the stage as the two WAGs in a play that’s scripted around seven days-worth
Tesla critics are testing Elon Musk’s new Twitter policy about parody accounts, and they even forced the CEO to change it and ban them. One of the first changes that Musk implemented after acquiring Twitter is rolling the “verified” feature, which was originally intended to confirm that the person behind a specific account was the
In a career spanning more than five decades, Sylvester Stallone has taken on his first scripted TV role with new show Tulsa King. And the star told Sky News he definitely found it different to making movies, admitting it was hard work at times. “I’ve been around for centuries, actually, Julius Caesar was my first director,”
English National Opera (ENO) boss Stuart Murphy has told Sky News “to uproot it with no plan is insanity”, after discovering they would be cut from the Arts Council England portfolio. Instead, the company has been offered £17m over three years to develop a “new business model” with a suggestions of a move from London
Normally when we get review e-bikes here at Electrek, they are pushed off the back of a FedEx truck in a beat up box for us to assemble ourselves. That’s the typical e-bike introduction, unfortunately. The experience at Pedego with the City Commuter Platinum that I’ve been riding for the past few months couldn’t be
O2 have apologised after their Priority ticket website offering customers early access to Peter Kay tickets crashed due to “extraordinary demand”. The rush for tickets followed the announcement that the comedian would be returning to the stage after years away from the spotlight. London’s O2 Arena announced that the 49-year-old Phoenix Night’s star would become
Tesla is starting to hire workers specifically for Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas, according to job listings seen by Electrek. When Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck back in 2019, Tesla said that the electric pickup truck would make it to market by the end of 2021. As the deadline was approaching, the automaker confirmed that production slipped
Jennifer Aniston has revealed she tried to get pregnant through IVF and said she has “zero regrets”. The Friends actress said “the baby-making road” was “challenging” in an interview with Allure magazine. The 53-year-old discussed the effect media scrutiny has had on her over the years and described her late 30s and 40s as “really