Are Tesla Model 3 preorders slowing down?
A week ago, Tesla VP of Business Development Diarmuid O’Connel said in a speech in Amsterdam that Model 3 preorders are approaching 400,000 units. That’s a remarkable achievement for the company, whose aim is to sell 500,000 cars by 2020. But new comments from Tesla CEO Elon Musk seem to suggest the excitement around the affordable Model 3 electric car may have died down.
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Ben Rossett May Be Socially Disconnected, but Horsepower Is Not an Issue With His 2003 Cobra
This doesn’t mean Rossett lives in a van down by the river. After all, he owns two Tampa Bay area companies: American Concrete and Paramount Stoneworks. He’s just not interested in staying plugged in. Rossett likes to keep a low profile.
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Mustang Owners’ Photographs: 1965 Convertible, 1966 Hardtop, and More!
Yet another reader from Australia is living the dream of Mustang ownership. Ronnie Braine finally found the Mustang he was looking for in this ’65 convertible.
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How Elon Musk became an industry icon and a tech hero: an illustrative guide
People like to compare Elon Musk to a real-world Tony Stark, but that’s not really giving Musk a fair shake. For years, Musk has been a driving force behind some of the most impactful, important and revolutionary businesses on the planet. Whether it’s his involvement with online payments via PayPal or the incredible work he’s been doing at both Tesla and SpaceX, Musk continues to push the limits of what society things is possible.
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Tupac blasts Donald Trump in unearthed 1992 MTV interview
Well before Tupac Shakur became a household name and transcendent rapper – we’re talking pre-Death Row and even pre-Keep Ya Head Up – Pac was hardly one to shy away from speaking his mind and imparting knowledge upon the masses. Earlier this week, MTV News unearthed an old interview they conducted with Tupac back in 1992, months before his first album had even hit store shelves. During the course of the interview, Tupac waxes poetic on societal responsibility, poverty, the distribution of wealth and more.
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Harrison Ford’s infamous ‘Force Awakens’ injury was a blessing in disguise
Remember when news leaked out that Harrison Ford had an accident on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens that left him with a broken leg? At the time, many people just cracked jokes about Ford being too old to still play a hero in an action movie, but it turns out that Ford’s injury was really a blessing in disguise for The Force Awakens. IGN brings us word that Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams revealed this week that Ford’s unfortunate accident gave him a chance to completely rethink the way he’d written the interactions between Rey and Finn.
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Watch Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in the first ‘The Magnificent Seven’ reboot trailer
Classic western The Magnificent Seven is getting a reboot and there’s an impressive cast playing all the major parts. Even better, a first teaser trailer for it was just released. The Magnificent Seven remake stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier and Lee Byun-hun. The movie is directed by Antoine Fuqua, who also worked with Washington on Training Day.
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One of Danny McBride’s first movies is streaming in its entirety for free on YouTube
Late last year, we pointed our readers in the direction of The Paramount Vault, a YouTube channel where Paramount Pictures uploads full-length films from decades past. Admittedly, most of the movies aren’t going to make you consider canceling your Netflix subscription, but there was one very interesting addition this week.
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Two new studies will forever change how you think about evolution
Forget what you thought you knew about evolution because researchers have determined that a particle responsible for the way DNA information is decrypted comes from space. Added to this, in an unrelated study, some biologists make the case that human hands actually derive from shark-like gills.
So did we all descend from a race of space sharks?
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Volkswagen could pay U.S. customers $5,000 each in massive dieselgate settlement
After months of deliberation, it appears that a settlement has finally been reached between Volkswagen and U.S. regulators over the diesel emissions scandal that rocked the entire industry last September. According to a report from Reuters, Volkswagen will pay each affected customer $5,000 in the settlement.
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