Tesla Powerwall owners in the California virtual power plant report making up to $500 in the first year of the new program despite launching only in the summer. It looks like it could be a real way to lower the cost of owning home energy storage. A virtual power plant (VPP) consists of distributed energy storage
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Teachers in Wales have postponed strikes set to take place next week after a new offer on pay. Members of the National Education Union (NEU) and National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) unions will not be pushing ahead with planned strikes on Tuesday after a revised pay offer from the Welsh government. Wales’s education minister, Jeremy
Tesla, and specifically Autopilot, has been cleared from blame in the highly publicized fatal crash in Texas that was reported to have happened with “no one in the driver’s seat.” In April 2021, a strange and tragic accident in a Tesla happened in Spring, Texas. A Tesla Model S missed a turn, hit a tree, and
In this article USDT.CM= Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tether previously claimed its stablecoin was backed 1-to-1 by U.S. dollars. Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty Images Tether on Thursday published its latest quarterly financials, with the world’s top stablecoin issuer stating publicly for the first time that it generated a profit. Tether, which
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spent two decades in power, serving as Turkey’s prime minister from 2003 to 2014, when he was elected president. He now faces the enormous challenge of rebuilding swathes of the country that have crumbled to rubble in the most devastating earthquake since 1999. He is also seeking re-election in May. Who
The UK communications regulator has launched an investigation into broadband and phone bill price rises as research suggested many customers are unaware providers can increase costs. The review, to be carried out by Ofcom (the Office of Communications), will focus on mid-contract price increases as the watchdog said it was worried about uncertainty faced by
Australia is to remove security cameras made by firms linked to the Chinese Communist Party from its defence department buildings. At least 913 cameras, intercoms, entry systems and video recorders made by Hikvision and Dahua are in government offices, including the defence and foreign affairs departments, said The Australian newspaper. China‘s government partly owns the
Elon Musk Twitter page seen on mobile with his poll to step down as head of Twitter Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Access to Twitter was restored in Turkey late Wednesday after network restrictions left people in the country unable to use the site, according to internet monitoring site NetBlocks. The service was
The Church of England has voted in favour of a motion to offer blessings to same sex-couples in civil partnerships and marriages. A near-eight-hour debate across two days ended in a vote for the motion on Thursday at a meeting of the General Synod – the church’s parliament. The Synod’s three houses all voted overwhelmingly
A three-year drought may have led to the collapse of the ancient Hittite civilisation in the Middle East 3,000 years ago, a study suggests. The Hittites, with their capital Hattusa situated in central Anatolia, were one of the ancient world’s great powers across five centuries. They became the main geopolitical rivals of ancient Egypt during
The heart of this disaster lies at the end of the highway which leads to Kahramanmaras, a bustling city of a million people, perched up in the mountains of central Turkey. The setting is spectacular but this community also sits along the East Anatolian Fault. When two major earthquakes ruptured the surface on Monday, the
Russian officials have attacked Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “hasty” visit to Europe – dismissing his speech to MPs in Westminster as “theatrical”. The Ukrainian president made a surprise appearance in London on Wednesday, where he urged the UK and Western allies to provide “wings for freedom” by supplying advanced jets. Mr Zelenskyy then travelled to Paris for
Elon Musk Twitter page seen on mobile with his poll to step down as head of Twitter Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Many Twitter users on Wednesday afternoon were unable to post on the site for about 90 minutes, receiving a message that read, “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.”
2:18 PM ET The LIV Golf League might claim to be “golf but louder,” but there is perhaps no place in the sport more raucous than the par-3 16th hole of the Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale, the site of this week’s WM Phoenix Open. The scene figures to be even more raucous with NFL
The FTX logo on a laptop screen. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images FTX’s top bankruptcy, legal and financial advisors have billed the company more than $19.6 million in fees for work done in 2022, according to Tuesday bankruptcy court filings. More than $10 million of that was for work done in November 2022
In this article CRM GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Google VP of VR Clay Bavor Source: Google Google veteran Clay Bavor is leaving the company to build a startup focused on artificial intelligence with former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. “We share an obsession with recent advances in AI, and we’re excited to build
Feb 8, 2023 Mike CoppingerESPN Lightweight boxer Gervonta Davis, who was arrested Dec. 27 on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge of battery causing bodily harm, is scheduled to be arraigned on Feb. 23 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to Broward County court records. Davis, 28, pled not guilty. He allegedly hit the mother of his
Cruz Foam, and pro surfer Zak Noyle, are fighting plastic pollution. Cruz Foam More than 100 cities in the US have put ordinances in place restricting or flatly banning the use of disposable styrofoam, especially by restaurants and for shipping food and other products. In the state of California alone, 97 cities or counties have
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is exploring buying a minority stake in a Premier League club – with interest in Manchester United. A full takeover of an English club is not planned at this stage but the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is exploring acquiring a stake that could be around 10%, Sky News understands. The emir
Google published an online advert for its new AI chatbot Bard in which it delivered an inaccurate answer. The company unveiled its much-anticipated rival to ChatGPT this week, and has launched a marketing blitz to prepare the public for its full rollout in the coming weeks. A promotional tweet with a short GIF describes Bard