If you haven’t read about Mastodon, you should join –– it’s an open source distributed alternative to Twitter based on the ActivityPub W3C standard. It’s like a cool, open, federated Twitter with no trolls allowed because every server can take charge of moderating their own community in a common sense way. We have our own […]
A new research note from Deutsche Bank estimates that Tesla will start deliveries of their Model Y crossover in the first quarter of 2020: If Tesla could begin Model Y deliveries in the first-quarter of 2020, that would be a full season ahead of CEO Elon Musk’s promised schedule. Early production and deliveries would be […]
John Gruber has a great take on yesterday’s Alphabet news: This whole “Alphabet” thing is a joke. I still don’t get what they’re even trying for with it. The company is Google and we all know it. The subsidiary owns the parent and everyone knows it. No one is fooled by this. Nothing has changed […]
New from Christoph Rauwald and Birgit Jensen: Volkswagen AG offices were raided by German prosecutors as part of a probe into diesel engines, marking a fresh setback for the manufacturer’s efforts to draw a line under an emission-tests cheating scandal that erupted four years ago. Bloomberg Surprise, surprise: It turns out when you illegally poison the […]
Times have been rough for Tesla short-sellers, which makes today’s story particularly sad. Many had been hoping that Vernon Unsworth’s defamation lawsuit against Elon Musk would provide a much needed moment of victory to boost morale and hopefully help make back at least some of the billions of dollars they lost shorting Tesla stock. That […]
UPDATE: the launch has been postponed until tomorrow SpaceX will live broadcast the rocket launch, which starts at 12:51 PM EST, 9:51 AM PST, or 17:51 GMT. If you want to tune in, you can catch it on YouTube: Note: The featured image shows a payload of Starlink satellites, not a Dragon vehicle, loaded onto […]
Check out this crash test video, featuring the latest Autopilot safety systems: The pedestrian detection and lane assist functinality is particular interesting. This is such an enormous leap forward in safety.
Here’s the latest update from, Ihor Dusaniwsky, whose app Shortsight can give you real time short interest for any stock in your portfolio: Damn shawty…
Japanese giant GPIF has halted stock lending from its equity portfolio: Japan’s public pension fund has struck a blow against short-sellers, declaring that it will no longer allow overseas shares to be lent out from its ¥80tn ($733bn) global equity portfolio. Financial Times In a major blow to short sellers, Japan’s public pension will no […]
Mark Bergen and Alistair Barr have a little bit more for us on yesterday’s news that Google’s founders are out and Sundar Pichai will be CEO of Alphabet. The Google founders’ decision to step down ends a multiyear effort to turn their company into the Berkshire Hathaway of technology by embracing Warren Buffett’s hands-off management […]
