We sit down with Polestar’s chassis boss to learn how EVs are being developed with driver engagement in mind Being careful to avoid national stereotypes is always good practice for a road tester. You know the sort: anthropomorphic nonsense about German cars being inherently efficient and resolute, Italian ones fiery and ostentatious or French ones […]
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Stuttgart’s hardcore 911 gets updated engine, tweaked underpinnings and more exhilarating exhaust note After Porsche GT boss Andreas Preuninger has conducted the showbiz reveal, guests gather for passenger rides. We jostle for position on the asphalted paddock-veranda behind Porsche’s towering experience centre at Hockenheim; it being 7.30pm in mid-October, the unlit test track spread out
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Stuttgart’s hardcore 911 gets updated engine, tweaked underpinnings and more exhilarating exhaust note After Porsche GT boss Andreas Preuninger has conducted the showbiz reveal, guests gather for passenger rides. We jostle for position on the asphalted paddock-veranda behind Porsche’s towering experience centre at Hockenheim; it being 7.30pm in mid-October, the unlit test track spread out
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“It barely exists anymore,” said the mayor of Vovchansk, an industrial town razed by a Russian onslaught shocking even for the killing fields of eastern Ukraine. Vovchansk has no great history but its geography could not be more tragic. Just five kilometres (three miles) from the Russian border, drone footage from the Ukrainian military this
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Gen Z and young millennial employees in Britain are missing the equivalent of a day’s work every week due to mental health struggles, new research has shown. Analysis by Vitality, the health and life insurer with over 30 million members worldwide, found that the average worker in the U.K. feels unable to work for almost
First we had friends. Then we had influencers. And if Mark Zuckerberg is correct, the next big thing in our social media feeds will be AI generated content. Lots of it. Zuckerberg described our future feeds during Facebook-parent company Meta’s third quarter earnings conference call on Wednesday, describing it as a natural evolution. “I think
The capital of Thailand welcomes millions of visitors each year, but only a select few get to enjoy all the luxury on offer. CNBC’s “First Class” takes you on a Bangkok tour like no other. Bangkok attracted more than 20 million visitors in 2023, making it one of the most visited cities in the world. Â
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Microsoft’s cloud business played a big role in driving overall growth for the tech giant in the latest quarter, as more customers used the company’s cloud services for their AI-powered platforms and tools. Microsoft cloud revenue in the first-fiscal quarter was $38.9 billion, up 22% year-over-year. Much of that growth came from Microsoft Azure, the
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Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses | Photographs by Iwan Baan with contributions by Lindsay Harris, Izzy Kornblatt, and Ryan Scavnicky | Lars Müller Publishers | $53 I have yet to make a pilgrimage to The Sphere, but I think about it more than I’d like to admit, searching for tickets to see Dead
Meta beat Wall Street’s revenue and profit targets during its third quarter and forecast a strong finish to the year in the holiday quarter. But the company’s plans to continue spending heavily on AI infrastructure and an increase in headcount may have tempered investor enthusiasm with the results. Shares of the Facebook parent fell almost
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