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Tesla has taken over most of a new industrial park project in Austin’s suburb of Kyle. The reason why is not confirmed, but it could be for battery production. Despite Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas site in Austin being its biggest gigafactory site to date, the automaker hasn’t shied away from securing more space around the growing central Texas city. Tesla has secured several buildings in the 5-building Kyle/35 Logistics Park in Kyle, Texas, a suburb south of Austin. According to the Austin Business…

Waymo has announced that it will start offering fully autonomous ride-hailing services to the general public in Los Angeles starting tomorrow, March 14th, and that Austin, Texas will open up “later this year.” Waymo has been testing its Level 4 autonomous ride-hailing service in Los Angeles since late 2022, and is now finally ready to open up the service officially. Level 4 is one of the SAE driving automation levels, signaling that the car drives itself with no human driver input, but is limited to…

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This week, it was all about Rivian and its splashy reveal of not one, but three future EVs. I attended the event to see the vehicles up close. Perhaps, more importantly, I also went to talk to executives,…

Waymo and Cruise have faced hostility towards their self driving services following collisions with the public.Alphabet's Waymo said on Tuesday it will begin driverless passenger services for its employees in Austin, Texas starting Wednesday.Waymo is pulling ahead with its expansion plans at a time when its key rival Cruise, owned by General Motors, has suspended US operations in the wake of a pedestrian-dragging accident. The company said the services would be available…

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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA viral video of Austin Butler in training for a film has intensified speculation he will be in Heat 2.Ever since it was announced that Michael Mann would adapt a prequel and sequel to his 1995 hit film, fans of the original have predicted who could play the younger versions of characters played by Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer.It’s been claimed for some time that Driver,…

Daniel Craig was the latest actor to take on the license-to-kill secret agent James Bond. But with No Time to Die being Craig’s final James Bond film, it still leaves the question of who will take on these big shoes. Austin Butler gave an A+ reaction back when he pictured himself as the next James Bond, but all I can picture is the Ian Fleming character with an Elvis accent.Austin Butler truly has come a long way since his child star days on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Now that Elvis has shown the American actor’s…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDune: Part Two star Stellan Skarsgård has shared his unexpected reaction to Austin Butler playing the “terrifying” villain Feyd-Rautha. The Swedish actor returned to act as the ruthless antagonist Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dennis Villeneuve’s new sequel to Dune.When asked about his first response to the Elvis actor’s performance as his cruel heir and younger nephew Feyd-Rautha, which…

Pink spray paint covered the base of the bronze statue, located in front of the ACL Live music venue Oh, the humanity. An eight-foot bronze statue of Willie Nelson in Austin, Texas, was vandalized over the weekend, Austin’s Fox affiliate reported. Much of the base of the statue was covered in bright pink spray paint on Friday — to which we can only ask, “Why?” Local cleanup crews were quick to remove the paint and clean the statue since the vandalization. Austin Police hadn’t responded to…

Filming on Dune: Part Two’s set was “like a microwave”, Austin Butler has said.The Oscar-nominated Elvis actor, 32, stars as Feyd-Rautha, the nephew of and heir to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard).Butler told Entertainment Weekly how difficult the temperatures were to work in during his first week of filming while wearing a bald cap.“It was 110 degrees and so hot,” he said.“It was between two soundstages that were just these gray boxes of 200-foot walls and sand. It became like a microwave. There were people…