Ian King hears from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, who says the government will do whatever it takes to bring down inflation, even if that means a recession. He also speaks to Nick Harding, the chief executive of consumer lender Fluro as analysis by PwC shows total household debt in the UK has exceeded 2 trillion pounds
Carbon dioxide is the big villain of global warming. The “most wanted” for crimes against the climate that we’d love to lock up. In Merseyside and North Wales, they’re putting a posse together. It’s called HyNet and it’s a group of around 40 carbon-intensive industries like glass and cement, even breakfast cereals, crisps and proposed
In this article META AMZN MSFT GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., left, arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Toward the end of 2022, engineers on Meta’s team combating
F-16s are on the way to Ukraine. US President Joe Biden‘s approval of the move at the G7 conference will certainly provide Ukraine with some much-needed aerial firepower – but combat air power is heavily dependent on modern technology and some F-16s are vintage jets. When the F-16 Fighting Falcon first flew in the late
Britain’s largest building society has made some mortgages more expensive as the Bank of England’s interest rate is now expected to rise higher than previously thought. Nationwide has said interest rates on new fixed-rate mortgages will rise 0.45 percentage points. It follows moves by lenders such as Halifax, Santander and Atom Bank who also upped
Elon Musk’s brain chip firm Neuralink has said it has been given the go-ahead to start carrying out studies on humans. Neuralink said in a tweet on Thursday it had won the approval of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) “to launch our first-in-human clinical study!” It represents “an important first step that will
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution (LGES) just announced that they will build a $4.3 billion EV battery plant in the state of Georgia. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding in a signing ceremony today at LGES’s headquarters in Seoul. The two companies will 50/50 jointly open their new EV
Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink on Thursday said the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had given the green light to its first-in-human clinical trial, a critical milestone after earlier struggles to gain approval. The FDA nod “represents an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people,” Neuralink said
Tesla and Ford announced a partnership to onboard the latter’s electric vehicles on the former’s Supercharger network. Ford will add the Tesla plug, now known as the North American Charging Standard (NACS), to its electric vehicles. When Tesla announced last year that it opened up its proprietary charging connector to try to make it the
Neuralink logo displayed on a phone screen, a silhouette of a paper in shape of a human face and a binary code displayed on a screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 10, 2021. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Neuralink, the neurotech startup co-founded by
Associated Press May 25, 2023, 05:29 PM ET There’s a high demand for seats to watch the turnaround at the University of Colorado under Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders. Or so the soaring ticket sales indicate. The Buffaloes sold 11,273 single-game tickets Wednesday, the largest one-day total for individual games in team history. The school already
Associated Press May 25, 2023, 12:37 PM ET TAMPERE, Finland — The United States beat the Czech Republic 3-0 to advance to the semifinals of the ice hockey world championship on Thursday. The Americans have been cruising through the tournament and earned their eighth straight victory. “This was a tough game and I’m really proud
A trio of Tesla Roadsters that don’t even work by all evidence are about to sell for almost $1 million. Is this a sign that this rare electric car is becoming a collector’s item? Earlier this month, we had this story about three brand-new original Tesla Roadsters having been found sitting in a shipping container in
A Tesla insider has stolen about 100 Gb of data from the automaker and has given it to a German media company, which is now releasing some details. Handelsblatt, a German media company, calls the leak “Tesla Files.” According to the company, “insiders” gave them 100 Gb of data coming straight from Tesla: Informants have
The Tesla Model Y was the world’s best-selling car in Q1 2023, marking the first time ever that an EV has achieved this feat, according to industry analyst JATO Dynamics. Model Y sales have been growing around the world for the last few years, putting the car on the trajectory to become the world’s best-selling
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is going to discuss the future of electric vehicles with Ford CEO Jim Farley on a Twitter Spaces. Musk has been pushing his Twitter Spaces feature over the last few weeks. When being interviewed by CNBC earlier this month, he insisted that the interview also be live on the live chat
Mercedes-Benz has now hired a contractor to install a 20-turbine wind farm at its test track in Papenburg, Germany. German wind farm developer UKA has been awarded a long-term contract worth “hundreds of millions” to install the 20 wind turbines by 2025, and bringing the wind farm online is planned for 2026. Once it’s up
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A US Navy guided-missile submarine. US Navy | AP The U.S. Navy was impacted by the Chinese state-sponsored hack disclosed by Microsoft earlier this week, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan on Thursday. Del Toro said the U.S. Navy “has
ESPN News Services May 24, 2023, 01:28 PM ET Police in Tennessee conducted a welfare check on Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant following cryptic messages on his Instagram story account Wednesday, with officials telling TMZ that he’s just “taking a break from social media.” Earlier Wednesday, Morant posted — and then deleted — messages and
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle on May 7, 2018. Grant Hindsley | Bloomberg | Getty Images If there’s one company that has popularized artificial intelligence in the past year, it’s the small but richly funded startup OpenAI,