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Euro zone GDP falls less than expected at end of 2020

An employee of German car manufacturer Mercedes Benz installs a wheel at an A-class model at the production line in the Daimler factory, Rastatt, Germany, February 4, 2019. /Reuters The euro z

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This is the new interior of Tesla’s Model S

The Model S will see some significant changes to its interior this year. After months of rumors, Tesla confirmed the revisions in a few images released just ahead of its quarterly earnings call schedu

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Craig Allen, President, US-China Business Council

19:10 US President Joe Biden takes the steering wheel of the world's largest economy that's still reeling from a raging Covid pandemic.Across the Pacific, having managed to be quite su

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Startups at CES showed how tech can help elderly people and their caregivers

The COVID-19 pandemic shined a harsh spotlight on the challenges many elderly people face. Older adults are among the highest-risk groups for developing cases that need hospitalization and nursing hom

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One COVID-19 death every 8 minutes in Los Angeles County: CNN

More than 266,000 new cases were reported in the U.S. on January 7, 2021, bringing the total tally to more than 21.6 million cases. /Reuters One person dies from the coronavirus every eight mi

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Cruise taps former Delta executive for COO post as it creeps towards commercialization

Cruise, the autonomous vehicle technology subsidiary of GM, said Friday it has hired Delta Air Lines’ former chief operating officer Gil West as it makes the transition towards early commerciali

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Tesla has decided to sell the cheaper Model Y standard range after all

Tesla has started taking orders for a cheaper standard range version of the Model Y in an apparent reversal by CEO Elon Musk who earlier this year seemed to put plans to release the vehicle on hold. E

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Xi: 100-year-old CPC to lead Chinese nation to great rejuvenation

01:26 President Xi Jinping, speaking in his New Year address on Thursday evening, said the Communist Party of China (CPC) will always put people first, remember its ori

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Xi: 100-year-old CPC to lead Chinese nation to great rejuvenation

01:26 President Xi Jinping, speaking in his New Year address on Thursday evening, said the Communist Party of China (CPC) will always put people first, remember its ori

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Chinese autonomous driving startup WeRide bags $200M in funding

WeRide, one of China’s most-funded startups developing autonomous driving capabilities, said on Wednesday that it has raised a $200 million strategic round from Chinese bus maker Yutong.Mega investmen

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Motional and Lyft target 2023 to deploy driverless robotaxi services in major U.S. cities

Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai $4 billion joint venture aimed at commercializing autonomous vehicles, plans to launch in 2023 fully driverless robotaxi services in major U.S. cities using the Lyft ride-

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Egyptian army says kills 40 "terrorists" in North Sinai province

FILE PHOTO: Egyptian Army soldiers are seen in the troubled northern part of the Sinai peninsula during a launch of a major assault against militants, in Al Arish, Egypt in March 2018. /VCG Photo

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I’m obsessed with the Ford Mustang Mach-E physical touchscreen volume knob

The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E features a giant touchscreen, and at the bottom is a sizable knob for volume control. I love it. There, stuck on a touchscreen, is a physical knob. Twist it! Spin it! Ther

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Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple raises $350M from U.S. rail, retail and freight giants

Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple has closed a $350 million funding round from a diverse consortium of strategic investors that include major U.S. corporations in rail, retail and freight, accordin

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Lucid Motors completes $700M factory to produce its first electric vehicles

Electric automaker Lucid Motors has completed the initial phase of its $700 million factory, a milestone required to begin production of its first luxury all-electric Air sedan this spring.The factory

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The EPA says the Ford Mustang Mach-E’s electric range is a lackluster 211-300 miles

The EPA just released its findings on the Mustang Mach-E, and it’s a mixture of good news and bad news. Depending on the model, the EPA says the Mach-E is good for just 211 miles to 300 miles on

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Mobileye taps Luminar to supply lidar for its robotaxi fleet

Luminar, the buzzy sensor startup that is on the verge of becoming a publicly traded company, locked in a supplier deal to furnish Intel subsidiary Mobileye with lidar for its fleet of autonomous veh