Their cheeky chip-snapping, swooping and aggressive squawking have given seagulls a reputation as a scourge on coastal towns, both terrorizing unsuspecting tourists and enraging residents. And as the marauding birds have ventured inland and established urban colonies, cities have deployed spikes, nets and even birds of prey as deterrents. Now Worcester city councilors appear to … Read more
A British-founded anti-hate speech campaign group drawn into the US Labor election campaign has vowed to continue its work following Elon Musk’s latest “declaration of war” against the organisation. The Center for Countering Digital Hate hit back at the world’s richest person this week after Musk alleged it violated laws against foreign interference in US … Read more
Manufacturers opposed the exemption, but it received support from the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. “The Registry recommends adopting a new exemption covering the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of commercial food preparation equipment at the retail level because the plaintiffs have sufficiently established, by … Read more
Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO known for his out-of-the-box ideas, has announced a vision for the future that spells the death of driving as we know it. On the company’s third-quarter earnings call Wednesday, Musk said the current business model of human-driven cars is coming to an end and will be replaced by self-driving electric … Read more
Investing.com – German stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the , and sectors propelled shares higher. At the close in Frankfurt, it was up 0.02%, while the index was up 0.28%, and the index was up 0.02%. The best performers of the session on were Daimler Truck Holding AG (ETR: … Read more
Your support helps us tell the story Read more This election is still a dead race according to most polls. In a fight with such thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support allows us to keep sending reporters to the story. The Independent … Read more
Good morning Quartz readers! HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Boeing machinists are still on strike. Workers voted down another contract offer met their demands. McDonald’s is facing its first lawsuit from the Quarter Pounder E. coli outbreak People are getting much more excited about buying houses. Sales of new homes in the US took … Read more
Taco Bell will soon unveil a number of new nostalgic menu items – and all at retro prices. The new “Decades Menu” announced by the fast food chain Thursday will include limited-time specials from the ’60s to the 2000s, each priced under $3. The items — which include a popular “90s legend,” a long-requested return, … Read more
Tesla is arguably one of the most advanced AI companies in the world, but its stock is dictated by margins. Over the past three years, Tesla’s average gross profit per vehicle down 60%, falling from more than $14,400 in Q3 2021 to less than $6,000 in Q2 2024, underscoring the difficulties Tesla has faced in … Read more
There is something mysterious about how a coffee bean becomes a commodity. From remote farms and steep hillsides, it finds its way to global markets as a weighed, graded, standardized product. This journey – like much of global trade – is often opaque. As the 19th-century Dutch novelist Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known as Multatuli, … Read more