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Listen: New Jeep Plant Addresses Odor Problem
It’s a brand new plant, and it stinks.That’s the problem Stellantis has been facing, after more than 50 odor complaints have been submitted in reference to the automaker’s one-year-old Jeep plant in Detroit.What’s that smell? Acco...
Listen: Ultra-Luxury Automakers Post Record Sales
This past year could be charitably described as “mixed” for the automotive industry.After what turned out to be a relatively brief blip due to the outbreak of COVID-19 the previous year, consumer demand returned with a vengeance in 2021...
Listen: Apple Places iPhone Factory On Probation
Apple took issue with how one of its iPhone factories in southern India was being run and placed the Foxconn plant “on probation.” BBC News reports Apple’s action came after the protest...
Listen: Sony Introduces Second EV Concept
An unlikely candidate has immersed itself in the electric vehicle industry. Two years ago, Sony, the company known for electronics such as cameras, televisions and headphones, announced its
Listen: Toyota Overtakes GM as Top U.S. Automaker
For the first time in nearly a century, General Motors won’t be able to claim the title of “America’s top automaker.”Instead, that designation — for this year, anyway — will belong to a Japanese company.Automakers are reporting ...
Listen: Ring to Identify ‘Suspicious’ People by Voice, Fingerprint or Odor
Let’s all take a moment to thank Amazon, and their Ring doorbell division, for looking at ways to keep us and the packages we purchase from them safe … by profiling people via their eye color, fingerprints, skin texture, gait and possibly odor....
Listen: Musk Says Rocket Engine Issues Threaten to Bankrupt SpaceX
On a day when a large share of Americans seek to recover from Thanksgiving excess, Elon Musk effectively ordered his employees back to their posts in Hawthorne, California, in order to address a “disaster” related to the spaceflight company’s n...
Listen: Engineering Company Owner Gets Prison in Explosion Probe
The owner of a civil engineering firm has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from an explosion at his company’s facility more than three years ago.The case began after the Aug. 2018 incident at KCCS Inc., ...
Listen: Domestic Automakers Rank Last in Reliability
Consumers in the market for a new car have faced a unique challenge this year: because of shortages of critical components, scarcity on dealer lots has resulted in less choice. But before you concede to simply taking what you can get, Consumer ...
Listen: Thanksgiving Dinner Costs Up 14%
Amid rising food costs nearly across the board, the typical Thanksgiving feast will be considerably more expensive than a year ago.The American Farm Bureau Federation’s 36th annual Thanksgiving Items Cost Survey found that the average co...
Factory Workers File Complaints After Being 'Treated Like Animals'
Employees of a Refresco bottling factory in Wharton, New Jersey are voicing their displeasure. Yahoo! News reports the workers filed federa...
'Toxic Culture' Still Present at UAW
An independent, court-appointed monitor of the United Autoworkers Union says the UAW has “fallen short” on the many reform efforts laid out in a settlement with prosecutors last year.The union had been under pressure to reform after more...
WHO Warns of Potential Vaccine Syringe Shortage Next Year
The World Health Organization announced the possibility of a global shortage of syringes in 2022 for the COVID-19 vaccine in the 1 billion to 2 billion range.UN News reported a W...
Dodge to Hire 'Chief Donut Maker'
For that highly nuanced person who wants to combine executive level business savvy with down-and-dirty racing tricks, Dodge just might have the job for you.The maker of the Challenger Hellcat and other notable muscle cars has a role to f...
Cadillac Culls Hundreds of Dealers in Shift to EVs
Cadillac enjoyed decades as the nation’s leading luxury auto brand — so much so that its name is still synonymous with the finest in pretty much any field you care to mention.But in recent decades, amid changing consumer tastes and growi...
Lawyer Behind Pop-Tart Suit Has Filed More Than 400 Lawsuits
Last week, Kellogg Co. was hit with a $5 million lawsuit for "false, misleading and deceptive" marketing. The lawsuit alleged that Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts don't have strawberries in them even though the product's ingredients list says the ...
Architect Resigns from Billionaire’s ‘Psychological Experiment’
Charles Munger isn’t as well-known as Warren Buffett, for whom he has long served as right-hand man at the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate.But the 97-year-old, like the Oracle of Omaha, is a Nebraska native, a billionaire in his own righ...
Companies Are Using AI to Monitor Worker Performance
A computer vision startup claims it has the solution to improving fast-food worker performance. The startup, Agot AI, comes from Pittsburgh and its plan involves the installation of cameras in fast food kitchens. The monitoring can ...
Man Spends Relief Loan on $58K Pokemon Card
Another day, another story about pandemic relief fund fraud… except this one has a unique twist.A Georgia man has been accused of f...
Build This eVTOL
Swedish startup Jetson Aero is joining the personal aircraft game. Its electric VTOL is called Jetson One and the users can assemble it themselves. It is also classified as an ultralight, which means owners do not need a pilot license to fly it...
Government Lab Decrypts Tesla Driving Data
In the seven years since Tesla first debuted the advanced driver-assist technology known as Autopilot, the system has made headlines over everything from
The World is Running Out of the Color Blue
Paint industry insiders are saying the problem is causing “complete chaos” as supply chain challenges intensify and reports emerge that the world is running out of the color blue.You heard that right.
Cybertruck Specs Disappear Off Tesla's Website
Tesla’s Cybertruck is hard to forget.In late 2019, Elon Musk took the stage to unveil his company’s latest design, a futuristic, boxy EV truck described by observers as a “
Auto Supplier Wants to Be Paid Amid Production Slowdowns
Since the beginning of the year, the global auto industry has been plagued by a lingering shortage of semiconductors that...
Scorned Ex-Worker Allegedly Hacked Planes at Flight School
When an employer and an employee part ways, it’s not always on the best of terms. But in most cases, the departed worker moves on with their life. In most cases.But in others, an ex-worker can feel wronged to the point where they are loo...
