Controversial suicide pod dubbed the ‘Tesla of euthanasia’ to be used for the first time
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Controversial suicide pod dubbed the ‘Tesla of euthanasia’ to be used for the first time

A suicide pod dubbed the “Tesla of euthanasia” will be used for the first time next week. Sarco, a 3D-printed capsule, was first unveiled at the Venice Design Festival in 2019 and reportedly offers a painless death within 10 minutes of entering with the push of a button, reported Metro….

Bitcoin soars to nearly K after crypto-backer Trump survives assassination attempt
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Bitcoin soars to nearly $63K after crypto-backer Trump survives assassination attempt

Bitcoin surged to a two-week high on Monday after the attempted assassination of presidential candidate Donald Trump raised the odds of the former president, who has presented himself as a champion of cryptocurrency, winning the upcoming election. Trump said he was shot in the ear during the attack at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. His…

Computer mouse controlled by your tongue? 11 life-changing gadgets shocking techies at CES 2024
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Computer mouse controlled by your tongue? 11 life-changing gadgets shocking techies at CES 2024

Welcome to the world of tomorrow. World-changing breakthroughs are being debuted and displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as companies harness recent, vast breakthroughs in artificial intelligence to bring the future to today’s market. These on-display innovations at the four-day demo span from big, even life-altering game-changers…

Hertz plans to sell 20,000 EVs, including Teslas
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Hertz plans to sell 20,000 EVs, including Teslas

Rental firm Hertz Global Holdings said Thursday it would sell about 20,000 electric vehicles from its US fleet due to higher expenses related to collision and damage, and will opt for gas-powered vehicles. Shares of the company, which operates vehicles from Elon Musk’s Tesla and Swedish EV maker Polestar among others, fell about 3%…

New York state to invest in B chip research complex
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New York state to invest in $10B chip research complex

New York state is joining tech giant IBM and semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology to invest $10 billion in a state-of-the-art chip research facility at the University of Albany, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced. NY Creates, a nonprofit entity that oversees The Albany NanoTech Complex where the 50,000-square-foot facility will be built,…

Short seller Hindenburg accuses Jack Dorsey’s Block of ‘facilitating fraud’
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Short seller Hindenburg accuses Jack Dorsey’s Block of ‘facilitating fraud’

Hindenburg Research, the short-seller whose damning report on Indian billionaire Gautam Adani triggered a $150 billion loss from the mogul’s net worth, is now accusing Jack Dorsey’s mobile payment firm Block of “facilitating fraud against consumers and the government.” Hindenburg on Thursday alleged that Block overstated its user numbers and…

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking Haraldur Thorleifsson
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Elon Musk apologizes after mocking Haraldur Thorleifsson

Elon Musk is sorry. The billionaire mogul apologized for mocking a fired Twitter employee who suffers from muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair. Musk had accused Haraldur Thorleifsson of using his disability as an “excuse” to do “no actual work” after the Iceland-based software engineer complained that he had not…

Residents of Musk’s Texas space city rip billionaire for destroying quiet beach town
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Residents of Musk’s Texas space city rip billionaire for destroying quiet beach town

Residents of Elon Musk’s “space city” in southeastern Texas blasted the SpaceX CEO’s treatment of them as he transformed their quiet beach town into his grand Starbase vision, a report said. Boca Chica was a small, seaside village at the mouth of the Rio Grande on the Mexican border with…