Tag: US news
Elon Musk joins #DeleteFacebook effort as Tesla and SpaceX pages vanish
In a jab against the embattled social network, Musk joked “What’s Facebook?” before deactivating his companies’ official pages. Elon Musk joined the #DeleteFacebook movement on Friday, taking down official pages for two of his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, after he learned apparently for the first time that the pages existed. The billionaire chief executive engaged […]
End of the road: will automation put an end to the American trucker?
Americas 2 million truckers have long been mythologised in popular culture. But self-driving trucks are set to lay waste to one of the country’s most beloved jobs and the fallout could be huge. Jeff Baxters sunflower-yellow Kenworth truck shines as bright and almost as big as the sun. Four men clean the glistening cab […]
Fury at ‘Bodega’ tech startup that aims to put corner shops out of business
Bodega, which markets glorified vending machines where users can buy groceries, boasts: “Eventually, centralized shopping locations won’t be necessary.” A tech startup called Bodega that hopes to replace mom-and-pop shops with unmanned boxes that rely on an app and artificial intelligence is facing a massive backlash from immigrant business owners and skeptics across Silicon […]
‘The US hasn’t been this divided since the 60s’: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor on how to save America
For his new book, America 51, the Slipknot frontman has been examining the sicknesses at the heart of US culture and from Donald Trump to modern dating; here’s his exclusive guide to navigating them. Don’t fear Donald Trump He is so ineffectual. Everyone was worried about the crazy things he’d do, but there’s nothing […]
This is the most dangerous time for our planet | Stephen Hawking
We can’t go on ignoring inequality, because we have the means to destroy our world but not to escape it. As a theoretical physicist based in Cambridge, I have lived my life in an extraordinarily privileged bubble. Cambridge is an unusual town, centred around one of the world’s great universities. Within that town, the scientific […]