Screenshot: Misha Charoudin The Hyundai Ioniq 5 N is a very, very good car. It also happens to be electric. And while it’s no lightweight, at about 4,800 pounds, it’s also not nearly as heavy as we would have initially thought. Somehow, the car that Hyundai delivered is legitimately the most fun-to-drive EV that we’ve … Read more
Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the Google I/O developer conference. Andrej Sokolow | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Google is using its annual developer conference to showcase what the company is calling its lightest and most efficient artificial intelligence models. At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced Gemini 1.5 Flash, the newest addition … Read more
Tencent has faced a number of headwinds in 2022 including a Covid-induced slowdown in the Chinese economy and a tougher market for gaming. Bobby Yip | Reuters Tencent beat analyst estimates for revenue and profit in the first quarter, thanks to slightly better sales in the Chinese tech giants core gaming business and improved profitability … Read more
Adam Dodd, co-founder of wealth technology app Freetrade, is stepping down as CEO. Freetrade LONDON — The boss of U.K. stock trading service Freetrade is stepping down and leaving the company with immediate effect, the company told CNBC exclusively Monday. Adam Dodds, who co-founded the company with business partners Davide Fioranell and Viktor Nebehaj in … Read more
A Toyota sport-utility vehicle modified by Zoox, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, which combines radars, lidar, and cameras to test its software, drives on a road ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) of Las Vegas, Nevada on January 3, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images U.S. safety regulators have opened a probe … Read more
Photo: Nissan When the calendar flipped over to May, Nissan instituted a new sales policy for its dealers: Cars can be advertised at discounts up to 10 percent off the invoice price, a massive reduction from typical MSRP. The reasoning, it seems, is that Nissan just has too many cars sitting on dealer lots. Nissan … Read more
The FIA, in an effort to bolster entries for each round of the World Rally Championship, is looking for ways to make the series less expensive and more competitive. A new set of regulations will be implemented for 2027, but in the meantime it has suggested the current top-level Rally 1 cars from Toyota, Hyundai, … Read more
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink on Wednesday said part of its brain implant malfunctioned after it put the system in a human patient for the first time. Neuralink has built a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, that could eventually help patients with paralysis control external technology using only their … Read more
TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing entitled “TikTok: How Congress can Safeguard American Data Privacy and Protect Children from Online Harms,” as lawmakers scrutinize the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 23, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The future of TikTok is more … Read more
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during Stanford’s 2024 Business, Government, and Society forum in Stanford, California, US, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Loren Elliott | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google’s business is growing at its fastest rate in two years, and a blowout earnings report in April sparked the biggest rally in … Read more
