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F-35 Guns Don’t Shoot Straight
The F-35 program has been the target of a lot of criticism. Like, a lot.The military aircraft, said to be the most lethal and connected fighter jet in the world, has been plagued by ballooning cost, delays and technical problems for year...
FCA Dealers Threaten To Sue Over Incentives
Over the past two years, Fiat Chrysler has seen some dramatic highs and some crushing lows. After the automaker endured the sudden passing of longtime leader Sergio Marchionne in 2018, it concluded 2019 with a binding agreement to merge with Pe...
Made-In-China Pens Draw Ire Of UAW Members
The UAW has been struggling, for a while now, as fallout from corruption investigations has implicated more and more of its ranking members, including president Gary Jones, who abruptly resigned from the organization this past November.J...
Plant-Based Seafood Brand Threatens Suit Over Expo Ban
Nashville-based Atlantic Natural Foods’ is a producer and distributor of plant-based food products, and its flagship brand, Loma Linda, has a number of plant-based meat products, ranging from hot dogs and veggie steaks, to its most popular offe...
Startup 'Collecting Faces' From Social Media
A New York City based startup is facing the wrath of some the world’s biggest tech companies due to the way it’s populating a database for its facial recognition product.According to its website, Clearview AI’s mission is to enable law e...
Startup Launches Autonomous Trucks
A Denver-area autonomous vehicle startup made its public debut this week with a more than $50 million fundraising haul and the announcement of pilot projects at several large companies.Outrider says it offers first-of-its-kind technology...
Volvo’s Unveils Concept Electric Sedan
About a year ago, Polestar — the electric vehicle brand founded by Swedish automaker Volvo — unveiled a compact car touted as a potential challenger to Tesla’s Model 3 in the still-young industry of mass-market electric vehicles.The Pole...
Assault Weapons Offer 'Guaranteed Hit'
In an era filled with smart cars, smart phones and smart TVs, it doesn’t sound too far-fetched that the Army would like to develop some smart weapons for what we’d like to believe have always been some pretty smart soldiers.Last month at...
The First Dodge Viper Sells For $285K
A recent announcement from Subaru reveals that it will be the latest automaker to commit to an electric vehicle future – and it won’t go it alone.Subaru
Subaru Is Going Electric…Eventually
A recent announcement from Subaru reveals that it will be the latest automaker to commit to an electric vehicle future – and it won’t go it alone.Subaru
GM Rolls Out Robo-Taxi
San Francisco autonomous driving startup Cruise’s more than six-year existence has been a wild ride even by Silicon Valley standards.The company was purchased by General Motors for nearly $1 billion less than three years later, and its a...
The Motorola Razr Reboot Is Here
Is nostalgia enough to get you to pay $1,500 for the same phone you had in college?Motorola thinks so. And in their defense, it’s not exactly the same phone… but it is a flip phone and if you thought we moved away from that, remember: ev...
Dad Makes Gaming A Reality With Re-Engineered Controller
For those of you who don’t know, Jersey is the largest and southernmost of the Channel Islands located between England and France.The island itself isn’t that important for this story, except that a dad from Jersey recently sacrificed hi...
FDA Warns Purell: Stop Claiming Hand Sanitizer Prevents Flu
It stands to reason that global disease outbreaks would have a measurable impact on the sales of cleaning and sanitation products, and a few years back,
Walmart Deploys Robot Workers in 650 More Stores
Last year, Walmart had in-store robots installed at nearly 1,500 locations. Despite creeping out customers and making human counterparts feel uneasy, Wal...
Sony Built A Car
By now I think we can all agree that the role of entertainment and communication technology will continue to play a greater role in all facets of society, including automotive offerings. But, just in case you weren’t sure, electronics giant Son...
Reporters Sell Dumpster Food On Amazon
When you’re the biggest e-commerce company in the world, people love to bag on you. And if you’re Amazon, sometimes you deserve it.According to an article in
Engineering Problems Plague China’s First Passenger Jet
Nearly 12 years ago, China, intent on joining aerospace industry stalwarts Boeing and Airbus, established a new state-owned entity known as the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China — or COMAC, for short. The company set a goal o...
Plant Worker Arrested For Putting Pine-Sol In Coworker’s Drink
A 50-year-old worker at J & A Grinding has confessed to lacing a coworker's drink with a cleaning liquid.Curtis Malloy was an employee at the industrial tool plant in Delaware when he confessed to adding Pine-Sol to a coworker’s beve...
Long Lost Shelby Mustangs Restored
Last week, a pair of historic experimental Shelby Mustangs were unveiled at the 49th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. Little Red and the Green Hornet were the only notchback coupes ever manufactur...
Logistics Startup Fires CEO For Expensing $76K At Strip Clubs
Bloomberg reported December 13th that Sunnyvale, California-based Turvo — a real-time collaborative logistics startup — has implemented an important new company policy that essentially says employees aren’t allowed to entertain clients at strip...
Laffite's All - Terrain Supercar
Based in Los Angeles, Laffite Supercars designs unique concept cars and manufactures short-run automobiles. This week, the company introduced the X-Road, a street-legal all-terrain vehicle that combines off-road power with high-end ...
GM is Bringing Back the Hummer
More than 10 years after General Motors discontinued the Hummer as part of a bankruptcy announcement, the popular brand might be back, and it's entering a much different segment of the automotive market.According to
