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Bari Weiss realized that her news startup, the Free Press, was attracting a lot of attention with its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war when famous people started citing its work on social media.Music executive Scooter Braun shared a Free Press video about a hostage taken by Hamas. Comedian Chelsea Handler shared on Instagram Free Press’s “Voices from Gaza” video that showed a young Gazan describing Hamas as a barrier that must be removed. Cookbook author Jessica Seinfeldposted a column by Weiss about antisemitism…

Tesla Inc.'s next vehicle, the all-electric Cybertruck, was on display in several US showrooms during the retail event known as Black Friday, drawing throngs of shoppers eager to see the stainless steel-clad truck up close.At the Tesla showroom at Westfield UTC in San Diego, a group of about 25 people crowded around the sole Cybertruck on display as others waited in line outside. Shoppers had to stand about 10 feet away from the vehicle, which was roped off, and were told they couldn't view the interiors until the first…

US VC giant Andreessen Horowitz — which has about $35bn in assets under management — is to open its first (yes, the first) international office in London, led by one of the firm’s general partners, Sriram Krishnan. The office will focus on supporting the development of Crypto, blockchain technologies and associated Web3 startups. a16z has committed $7.6bn to Crypto startups globally. Chris Dixon, who leads a16z’s crypto investments, said: “London is a major financial hub, it’s a major tech hub and frankly it’s a very…

Two electric vehicle battery makers plan to spend around €10 billion ($11 billion) on factories in Europe, they said on Friday, after Europe loosened state aid rules for green industry projects in a bid to win the subsidy race with the USBoth plants will start production in 2026, employ thousands of people and supply batteries to European car makers. After months of worry that it would opt for an investment in North America over Europe, Sweden's Northvolt said it is set to pick Heide in northern Germany for its factory as…

General Motors (GM), through its joint venture, SGMW, began sales of its Wuling Bingo on March 29 with a starting price of 59,800 yuan ($8,500). After only a month, SGMW revealed 16,383 Bingo deliveries as the automaker continues to gain market share in China’s booming EV sector. SGMW is a joint venture between SAIC, GM, and Wuling Motors in China. The automaker is best known in the electric world for its best-selling Wuling Hongguag Mini EV, launched in 2020. After a year on the market,…

via Magnolia Pictures Female-driven war stories with fantastical twists has the potential to be one of the most fascinatingly unique subgenres in cinema, but it’s never going to catch on if the movies themselves keep on vanishing without a trace. First there was Chloë Grace Moretz’s batsh*t Shadow in the Cloud, which was swiftly followed by writer and director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday. They’d definitely make for one hell of a double feature, though, seeing as both stories focus on battle-hardened women dealing…

Score inflation over time: English. This figure shows Key Stage 2 score distributions for English in selected years before (2004 and 2007) and after (2008 and 2011) the elimination of borderlining. The vertical lines are critical attainment cutoffs set in that year. The continuous line is a polynomial fit obtained excluding observations in the windows around cutoffs. Credit: School Performance, Score Inflation and Neighborhood Development (2023).…

The Romanian Ford Otosan plant was once owned by Daewoo Turkish automaker Ford Otosan plans to bring about seven suppliers, some already active in Romania, closer to the automobile factory in Craiova that it took over recently from Ford, Guven Ozyurt, general manager of Ford Otosan, reportedly told Romanian media in Istanbul. “We are ready to start production of the new generation Ford Courier in Craiova,…

The prices seem almost too good to be true: Lenovo wireless earbuds for $3.70, an eyebrow pencil for 59 cents, two outdoor solar lamps for $6.39—all delivered for free. Welcome to Temu, which brings the rock-bottom prices and frenetic energy of Chinese ecommerce to US shoppers.Temu’s website and mobile app launched on September 1, the first US storefront from Chinese ecommerce giant Pinduoduo. Amazon, eBay, and other Western online stores feature plenty of goods from Chinese suppliers. Temu’s bargain prices are an…

Saudi Arabia’s megadevelopment Neom is paying senior executives roughly $1.1 million each annually, according to an internal Neom document, showing how the kingdom is using large pay packages to lure global talent to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s national transformation plan.Neom is the most ambitious project in Saudi Arabia and one of dozens of real-estate developments and new companies set up to drive Prince Mohammed’s social and economic reforms. The kingdom is recruiting foreign…