Entertainment

Cast your mind back 25 years. Hanson’s MMMbop was number one, Titanic topped the box office, and Tony Blair had just been elected PM. But perhaps more culturally significant than all three 90s moments is the first 500 copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone being published at the end of June 1997. It

When the SONDORS Metacycle was unveiled in Los Angeles in early 2021, its highway-ready performance and low initial price of US $5,000 sent shockwaves around the internet. After navigating a rollercoaster of design changes, production delays and price hikes, the bike is finally preparing to ship to the first reservation holders this month. The Metacycle

Paul McCartney and his late band mate John Lennon were reunited at Glastonbury Festival, singing the Beatles hit I’ve Got A Feeling, thanks to the magic of technology. Sir Paul, who become the oldest solo act to headline at Glastonbury Festival, took to the Pyramid stage 18 years after his last appearance at the Worthy

When it comes to fun and wacky electric vehicles, the undisputed titans of the industry are those wild EV engineers that must surely be keeping Alibaba in business. Despite a global supply chain crunch, there’s no shortage of fun and fascinating options in the endlessly scrolling EV pages on the site. This week’s entry in

Greta Thunberg has urged society to take on its “historic responsibility” to tackle the global climate crisis during an appearance at Glastonbury. Delivering a speech from the festival’s Pyramid Stage, the environmental activist gave the crowd a stark warning that the world is facing a “climate and ecological emergency”. “The biosphere is not just changing,

Are you tired of driving everywhere and paying the high price of gas just to get to or from work? Well, the ONYX CTY2 e-bike is the perfect resolution to that problem, delivering the ability to get around town without a single drop of gas or oil. It’s powered by a battery, can ride up

Billie Eilish has become Glastonbury Festival’s youngest ever headline act, with the Los Angeles-born star performing on the Pyramid Stage on Friday night. During her set, the singer emotionally told the crowd that, despite her pride at performing at the festival, today was “a dark day for America”. Introducing her song Your Power – a

This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discuss a Tesla Cybertruck update, bringing back Enhanced Autopilot, Tesla’s first full-scale virtual power plant in the US, and more. The show is live every Friday at 4 p.m. ET on Electrek’s YouTube channel.

A show about human-like robots that break their programming may have seemed far-fetched when it first came out back in 2016, but as Westworld returns for a fourth series advances in driverless cars, body part printing, and even claims of sentient AI at Google suggest we’re catching up with the sci-fi. Tessa Thompson who returns

Tesla has relaunched its Enhanced Autopilot option and pulled almost all the features from its Full Self-Driving (FSD) package in the process. Over the years, Tesla has changed its Autopilot options and pricing so many times, it has been hard to follow. Finally, the automaker ended up making the Autopilot’s Autosteer and Traffic-Aware Cruise Control standard on

Katie Price has avoided jail after breaching a restraining order blocking contact with her ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancee Michelle Penticost. The 44-year-old former glamour model has been handed an 18-month community order to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work – with an additional 20 hours for breach of a suspended sentence for driving matters.

Here’s where the world’s seven largest economies stand in their clean energy transitions ahead of the 48th G7 Leaders’ Summit next week in Germany. The G7 and clean energy – what they need to do The G7 is made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US. A G7 commitment to “predominantly

Legendary composer John Williams is putting the final notes on what could be his last film score, Indiana Jones 5, after six decades of spell-binding big screen musical works. Williams, responsible for the spine-tingling soundtracks to more than 100 iconic films – from Star Wars, Jaws and Jurassic Park to E.T, Harry Potter, Superman, and

Swedish marine technology company Candela is showing off the first images of its P-12 Shuttle flying electric ferry that is expected to begin production later this year. The flying electric boat rides on hydrofoils that lift it out of the water and help it consume considerably less energy than typical boats. The technology has already

Emilia Clarke has confirmed her Game of Thrones co-star Kit Harington will reprise his role as Jon Snow in a new spin-off series. In addition to the House of Dragon prequel due to air in August, Clarke confirmed reports Harington is also behind a second series linked to the original franchise. When asked about the

Elon Musk says that he is considering Tesla ads, which are against the company’s current marketing policy, to counter what Musk perceives as media bias against Tesla. For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has famously said that he despises advertising. He said that Tesla doesn’t pay or provide discounts for celebrities to drive its cars

Getting to this year’s Glastonbury has been a challenging journey for ticket holders. On top of the two-year pandemic postponement, when this week’s rail strikes were announced, thousands had to find a new route to Worthy Farm. With half of the specially laid-on services cancelled, there was a mad scramble to book seats on coaches.

Senator Joe Manchin, who has a swing vote in the US Senate, said that the Democrats have given up on the $4,500 electric car tax credit bonus for union-made EVs as part of the Build Back Better Act. It is still unclear what reform the EV tax credit will see in the spending bill, if

Tesla dominates the list of most American-made cars, now with the Model Y taking the top spot on the 2022 list. Until somewhat recently, there were still many people who don’t even know that Tesla is an American automaker. There would be, semi-regularly, someone who would compliment my Tesla without knowing what it was, and

With the cost of living crisis taking hold in the UK it might not seem like the obvious time to launch a new subscription streaming service. But if the last two years have taught us anything it’s that people rely on television when they can’t do the things they usually would – and Paramount will