Internal documents given to Tesla employees a few weeks before the company's October earnings release reveal the company had plans to manufacture its next car, the Model Y SUV, at a rapid speed. According to the document, Tesla planned a production ramp of 7,000 Model SUVs a week at its Gigafactory 1, in Nevada, by…
PERHAPS IT was the dessert of caramel-rolled pancakes, crispy chocolate and fresh cream. Or perhaps President Donald Trump had already decided that, during a working dinner on December 1st, he wanted a deal with President Xi Jinping of China. Whatever it was, after sounds of applause drifted out to assembled journalists, the two announced a…
The agreement reached by President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China to effectively pause their trade war and work toward a pact appears to be aimed at giving the two leaders some political breathing room after an escalating fight has begun inflicting economic damage on both sides of the Pacific. The temporary truce, forged…
Apple‘s famous wireless AirPods are a hot holiday ticket item, but you may want to hold off on buying them. Top Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities says Apple will release an “upgraded model with wireless charging support” in 2019’s first quarter, in a report obtained by 9 to 5 Mac. Kuo also stated…
A former NASA astronaut says the agency he used to work for has a duty to protect civilians from killer asteroids, but that it isn't meeting that obligation. The threat of asteroid strikes might seem as abstract as outer space itself. But the risk, while infrequent, is real — and potentially more deadly than the…
WHEREVER he went, as America’s president or before it, George Herbert Walker Bush usually carried a felt-tipped pen and a supply of note-cards. On these he wrote letters. Some were thank-yous; others a clumsy, but courteous, attempt to get his views across to other people; yet others just a “good to see you” kind of…
“If you believe Liu is a real reformer, then the evidence suggests that Xi isn’t listening to him,” said another American, Matthew P. Goodman, an economist specializing in Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Instead, the stage is set for what one Chinese commentator calls a new bipolar world. Yan Xuetong, a…
The market for cryptocurrency has seen better times as Bitcoin struggles to stay above $4,000 and crypto hedge funds shut up shop. But one corner of the market seems to be weathering the downturn just fine: Ledger, which makes crypto hardware wallets, says sales are just fine. “I’m happy to report Black Friday ’18 was…
The changes were made to address four major threats, posed by cars, factories, and the like, to the environment: acid rain, urban air pollution, toxic air emissions, and stratospheric ozone depletion. For example, one of the provisions stipulates the gradual phaseout of chemicals that damages the earth's ozone layer. The amendments also included measures that…
DATA BREACHES have become so common that even biggish ones no longer make the news. But on November 30th Marriott International, a big American hotel chain, announced a real whopper. Half a billion records from a database owned by Starwood, one of the firm’s subsidiaries, had been accessed by hackers. The firm does not know…
