Apr 14
A federal judge dropped the price of a jury’s $137 million penalty on electric car giant Tesla to just $15 million over a widespread pattern of racist mistreatment of a Black worker at its northern California plant.
Apr 14
Nicolas Cage. Jeff Goldblum. Christopher Walken. There’s a short list of actors in Hollywood who, no matter what they’re in, you love to watch it because they’re just so… out there. Among those has to be John Malkovich and we’ve got a brand new clip of Malkovich proving exactly that.
Apr 14
“I hope to share a moment, a memory and my appreciation with you,” the sprinter said.
Apr 14
Tinder brings back Festival Mode now that in-person events are a thing again
Posted in: Today's ChiliTinder is bringing its Festival Mode out of mothballs as in-person music events return in earnest. As of today, you can use the mode in Tinder Explore to match with people up to a month before festivals start. The initial mix of festivals includes well-known American gatherings like Bonnaroo, EDC and The Governors Ball, but also includes international events like the electronic-focused Sónar (in Barcelona) and Lollapalooza’s outings in Berlin, Paris and Stockholm. This weekend’s Coachella is conspicuously absent, however.
If your event of choice isn’t listed, you can still visit a “Festival Goers” area to hook up with users either going to other festivals or simply interested in the scene. Festival Mode is available to people worldwide.
The relaunch was virtually expected. Tinder unsurprisingly took a sharp hit when the pandemic made in-person dating risky or impossible, and scrambled to introduce video dates and other features that helped remote love blossom. Festival Mode could help Tinder revive interest in its core business. And there’s evidence to suggest that might work. Tinder noted in 2019 that app usage surges during large events, and that might be particularly true given two years of pent-up demand.
Apr 14
The James Webb Space Telescope performs another daring operation that could decide its ultimate fate — and comes through with flying colors.
Apr 14
Before-and-After Satellite Images Show Fukushima's New Solar Power Hub Amid Nuclear Waste
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Satellite images captured by NASA’s Landsat 8 show how Fukushima, Japan has transformed since a tsunami devastated the region in 2011, setting off a nuclear disaster that is still being cleaned up. Today, vast areas of solar panels can be seen covering the land around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Apr 14
The past few episodes of Star Trek: Picard have been a bit chaotic, but in a largely fun way—a little dash of the absurd to make the strange ideas it was hastily setting up in the background go down smoothly, so you could have a bit of a chuckle when that setup came crashing down in similarly absurd fashion. This…
Apr 14
Hundreds of Afghan students studying at American colleges in Afghanistan and elsewhere are facing uncertainty after the Taliban takeover.
Apr 14
Honda will retire the hybrid Insight to focus production on its 'core' models
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Honda Insight was first released in 1999 and immediately gained a passionate following among car enthusiasts, but was always something of an odd duck in the automaker’s lineup — it was the Civic Hybrid before there was officially a Civic Hybrid. However, the Insight’s days of being the single most fuel efficient gas-powered vehicle on the road that doesn’t plug in are coming to a close. Despite record sales of more than 100,000 electrified vehicles (that’s EVs and hybrids) in 2021, Honda on Thursday announced that it will be sunsetting the venerated Insight this June as the company refocuses production efforts on its “core” hybrid models — the Accord, CR-V and Civic — and continues to migrate towards full EV capacity.
“Hybrid-electric vehicles are effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and are a critical pathway toward Honda’s vision for 100% zero-emission vehicle sales in North America by 2040,” said Mamadou Diallo, vice president of Auto Sales at American Honda Motor Co., Inc. “Making the volume leader of our core models hybrid-electric will dramatically boost electrified sales in the Honda lineup, a strategy that will be augmented by the arrival of a Civic Hybrid in the future.”
The company notes that the Indiana Auto Plant where the Insight was produced will transition into making the CR-V, CR-V Hybrid and Civic Hatchback. Honda plans to introduce new iterations of the CR-V Hybrid later this year, followed by the Accord Hybrid and “in the future,” Civic Hybrids.
Apr 14
Using data from Hubble, researchers were able to shed light on a previously unproven and mysterious period of evolution in the formation of a black hole.
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