On a recent cloudless spring day on the outskirts of Gilroy, California, Christian Martorella accelerated an 18-wheeler past budding orchards. But instead of the roar of a diesel engine, the cab filled with the gentle hum of an electric motor.

After driving diesel trucks for 10 years, Martorella initially eyed electric trucks skeptically. Now, ...Read more

You wanna see her move? I think that’s the fun part.

The room is thick with anticipation and fabricated skulls.

She’s gonna wake up. Give her a second.

Matt McMullen eyes his creation as her eyes flutter open in return, her gaze settling upon all the disembodied faces and mechanical mandibles surrounding her in this workshop where fake ...Read more

It is high school (and college) graduation time and that usually means some gift-giving.

I’ve got a few gift ideas for your graduates that will be welcomed whether they’re headed off to college or still trying to figure out what’s next.

Here are three gadgets, and oddly, two of them are named Flow.

Tribit Stormbox Flow

I think ...Read more

Tesla Inc. eliminated almost its entire Supercharger organization, which has built a vast network of public charging stations that virtually every major automaker is in the process of tapping into in the US.

The decision to cut the nearly 500-person group, including its senior director, Rebecca Tinucci, was made by Chief Executive Officer Elon ...Read more

Around 2 million New Yorkers living in stabilized apartments will likely see their rents climb for the third year in a row, after the board tasked with setting rates okayed a range of possible hikes at a raucous preliminary vote on Tuesday — as tenants and their board representatives walked out in protest.

The rest of the Rent Guidelines ...Read more

Eight newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Tuesday, claiming the technology giants illegally harvested millions of copyrighted articles to create their cutting-edge “generative” artificial intelligence products including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot.

While the newspapers’ publishers have spent billions of dollars to ...Read more

Amazon reported $10.4 billion in profit for the first three months of the year, marking another quarter of growth that surpassed the start of 2023.

In its first-quarter financial results, released Tuesday afternoon, Amazon reported $143 billion in revenue, $10.4 billion in profit and 98 cents earnings per diluted share. In the same time period ...Read more

Ecolab is offloading its global medical solutions business, selling its surgical unit to Medline Industries for just under $1 billion.

The St. Paul based provider of water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services earned announced the $950 million deal with the Illinois-based private company Tuesday morning. Medline is one of the...Read more

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency trading platform, was sentenced in Seattle on Tuesday to four months in prison for failing to prevent money laundering on the exchange.

Both Zhao, who is known as CZ, and Binance pleaded guilty last year to failing to implement anti-money-laundering ...Read more

Michigan’s electric-vehicle fast-charging infrastructure grew slightly faster than the nation overall last year, according to a new report by East Lansing-based Anderson Economic Group.

In 2023, the state's number of public DC fast-charging stations increased about 52%. Nationwide, the number of public DC fast charging stations increased by ...Read more

Cherie Grzech, a longtime Washington executive for Fox News, has been named president and managing editor of news and politics for Nexstar's cable channel NewsNation.

The Chicago-based channel announced Tuesday that Grzech will oversee its news coverage and political programming, which now includes a Washington-based Sunday roundtable show. She...Read more

Stellantis NV on Tuesday said its first-quarter revenue fell 12% to $44.7 billion (41.7 billion euro) compared to last year as the company transitions to a number of next-generation vehicles that will be built on new platforms.

Vehicle shipments worldwide were down 10%, to 1.3 million, compared to the same three-month period a year ago.

For ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Regional electric monopoly Ameren could be hit harder than many U.S. utilities by new federal rules requiring carbon pollution controls on coal-fired power plants.

The company generates more than half of its power from coal, helping Missouri burn more of the material than any state but Texas. And the utility's biggest power plant,...Read more

California policymakers want to clean up the emissions spewed by the trucking industry — and they've passed mandates and established targets to get there.

The federal government recently followed up, creating its own set of national guidelines that are staggered by year and truck classification.

With California at the forefront, adoption is ...Read more

U.S. consumer confidence fell in April to the lowest since mid-2022 as Americans’ views of the labor market and their outlook for the economy deteriorated.

The Conference Board’s gauge of sentiment decreased to 97 from a downwardly revised 103.1 in March, data out Tuesday showed. The figure marked the third straight decline and trailed all ...Read more