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Automakers are battling with climate groups over how gas-electric vehicles are marketed as regulators prepare new emission rules. Automakers are battling with climate groups over how gas-electric vehicles are marketed as regulators prepare new emission rules. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful…

A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million US to climate scientist Michael Mann, who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published in 1998 in the journal Nature that was dubbed the "hockey stick" for its dramatic illustration of a warming planet.The work brought Mann wide exposure but also many skeptics, including the two writers…

New research challenges the notion that self-deception about personal behavior is the main driver behind climate change denial.Do climate change deniers bend the facts to avoid having to modify their environmentally harmful behavior? Researchers from the University of Bonn and the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) ran an online experiment involving 4,000 US adults, and found no evidence to support this idea. The authors of the study were themselves surprised by the results. Whether they are good or bad news for the fight…

Chang Che / New York Times: A look at Samsung's efforts to make AI chips; some skeptics question if the company can become indispensable in generative AI as in smartphones and high-res TVs — Foreign investors betting on artificial intelligence are pouring money into the company's shares. Analysts say it will have a hard time keeping up with rivals. Chang Che / New York Times: A look at Samsung's efforts to make AI chips; some skeptics question if the company can become indispensable in…

Akio Toyoda, president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corp.Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDETROIT – Toyota Motor stock sealed its best week since 2009 on Friday, as the automaker laid out a robust plan for future all-electric vehicles and company scion Akio Toyoda became leader of the Japanese company's board.Shares of Toyota on the New York Stock Exchange closed Friday at $164.35 per share, down 2.3% for the day but still up 10.6% on the week. That 5-day gain is the stock's best week since April 2009 when shares…

Ford 's (F) new partnerships with top lithium producers give us more confidence that the automaker can accelerate electric vehicle production and reach its global target of 2 million EVs per year by 2026. We're also encouraged by Ford's financial roadmap for getting there, which was discussed at Monday's investor event. Ahead of its Capital Markets Day presentation, Ford announced strategic agreements with four of the world's prominent producers of lithium, a key component of EV batteries. The deals are all compliant with…

via Marvel Studios As if they needed pushing in the right direction, DC fans are getting a glimpse of what’s to come from the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Even though James Gunn has been directing since the late 1990s and producing since 2000, he has come a long way and developed his own style that DC fans should be able to appreciate. With a sense of humor that has developed from childlike zingers to some rather sophisticated bazingas, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 delivers entertainment that…

via Warner Bros. We should probably get this out of the way first; 2006’s The Wicker Man is awful. It’s comfortably one of the worst remakes there’s ever going to be, and the tone veers so wildly all over the place from scene to scene that first-time viewers may be left wondering what the hell is supposed to be going on. However, was that the point all along? When the new spin on the 1973 classic was first unleashed upon the unsuspecting masses, nobody was sure what to make of it, besides the fact it was…

Image via Warner Bros. Discovery DC fans are arguing the merit of James Gunn‘s perilous plan to incorporate video games into the film and television aspects of the franchise. The announcement that the company will produce video game extensions of DCU films and tv series did not go over well with everyone. One fan took to the r/DC_Cinematic subreddit to lament the many ways they find the plan problematic. They reasoned that it’s best to separate video games from films and television narratives, as it allows…

The cryptocurrency and blockchain skeptics are having a field day. Ever since the TerraUSD collapse in May, they’ve been lining up to write crypto’s eulogy, goaded on by the woes experienced by Celsius, Three Arrows Capital, Voyager Digital, BlockFi and other firms. And with bitcoin and altcoins remaining far below all-time highs, there’s every chance other dominoes will fall in the coming weeks, as overleveraging and risk comes back to bite the market. It’s hard to deny that the cryptocurrency industry is going through a…