Tesla’s push for growth in the world’s largest auto market is being led by CEO Elon Musk’s focus on artificial intelligence and self-driving vehicles. Reuters, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of Tesla’s work in China, reports that the company has been developing plans to build a data center in the country, which would train the algorithm needed for its cars to become more fully autonomous. If Tesla does proceed with those plans, it would be a major change from its past efforts to secure...

Britain's Community Security Trust, an anti-Semitism watchdog, observed a massive spike in hate incidents against Jewish citizens following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel. This increase coincided with the mainstreaming of the kinds of genocidal and anti-Israel rhetoric that have since been recycled at various Democrat-supported campus protests in the United States. Douglas Murray, the founder of the Center for Social Cohesion, noted in an Oct. 12 piece for the Spectator, "Within...

Bitcoin was lumped in with other speculative investments during the run-up of the Federal Reserve’s last tightening cycle, slumping on expectations higher interest rates would damp the appetite for risk. Now with optimism growing again that borrowing costs could soon be heading lower, advocates of the biggest cryptocurrency are saying its more akin to high growth assets such as the shares of technology companies. The token has been trading as such as of late. The 90-day correlation coefficient...

Kim Godwin, the first Black woman to lead a major broadcast news network, has exited ABC News. She had been in the post since May 2021. As I read coverage on her departure, I noticed the language felt familiar in terms of how high-profile Black women are covered in the news. Some coverage of Black women casts Black women in a negative light where they are either portrayed as ineffective, unable to keep up, angry or overly sexual. Godwin has been portrayed as ineffective. While there were always...

Tesla might have had a little win Thursday when it emerged that the Cybertruck was officially the second-best-selling electric pickup truck in America, but it isn’t quite out of the woods just yet. After reporting a massive 25% drop in new car registrations in February, the declines are continuing for the electric vehicle maker. In March, Tesla reported that new car registrations were down a further 12% compared with the same period last year, reports Automotive News. In total, more than 50,000...

Central bank intervention this week failed to stop slide in Nigeria’s naira to a two-month low ahead of a rate decision Monday. The naira weakened 5.1% on Thursday to 1,533.99 , the weakest level against the dollar since March 20, according to prices provided by FMDQ, the trading platform that sets the official rate. That reversed a 4% gain the previous day as after the central bank sold dollars in the market to boost liquidity.

It’s interesting to reflect on the implications of American slang for approbation and enthusiasm. Old-timey slang included terms like “the bee’s knees,” “cat’s pajamas” and “copacetic.” They were humorous and light-hearted expressions of appreciation, without the expectation of control in the relationship with the admired object. The 1950s beat slang saw a bemused irreverence for daddio, slouching into passivity when the with-it were cats and chicks, and things were cool, man. The ’60s saw more...

Republican operative Scott Jennings on Friday went on CNN to accuse Democrats of taking Black voters for granted, but former Democratic South Carolina State Rep. Bakari Sellers was quick to slap him down. During a discussion on President Joe Biden's newly planned outreach to Black voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Jennings claimed that Black voters were flocking to former President Donald despite his long history of racist rhetoric. "I mean, this just goes to show you what...

Elon Musk Finally Puts Twitter Out of Its Misery

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