Even Elon Musk Has A Hard Time With Tesla's High Valuation: 'It's More Than...
In the past year, Tesla's stock price has surged more than 400%. The market cap is currently $20.17, $11 billion higher than Fiat's and half the size of General Motors.Considering the fact that very...
View ArticleShanghai Made Its Own, Grimly Delicious Version Of The Giant Rubber Duck
We've called out Chinese cities for copying the giant Rubber Duck a Dutch artist recently made for Hong Kong, but Shanghai deserves credit for coming up with an original spin on the floating bird...
View ArticleHawaiian Airlines Will Lend You An iPad Mini For $15 Per Flight
Economy passengers on some Hawaiian Airlines flights will have access to their own iPad mini starting this weekend, if they're willing to cough up some cash.The airline has purchased 1,500 of the...
View ArticleMAP: The Current Price Of Gas In Every US County
The national average price of gasoline is at its lowest level in at least two years."As the Labor Day weekend approaches, the U.S. national average retail price for regular gasoline has fallen 13 cents...
View ArticleYes, Talking On A Hands-Free Cellphone While Driving Is As Bad As Driving Drunk
I was on vacation in Scotland recently with some friends and we piled into a van for a road trip from Edinburgh to Loch Lomond. One of my friends — a well-known theater producer in London — got behind...
View ArticleIncredibly Lucky Driver Escapes Death As Massive Boulder Rolls Off Mountain...
A Taiwanese driver barely escaped certain death on Saturday as a landslide sent a massive boulder tumbling onto a road.According to Australia's ABC News, the incident occured in Keelung City.The video...
View ArticleHere's The Jaguar That A New Building In London Literally Melted With Its...
The big story today is about a new development in London's financial district dubbed The Walkie Talkie due to its unusual shape.The combination of its shape (which is curved), its placement, and its...
View ArticleHere's The Key Thing You Should Know About Ronald Coase, The Great Economist...
Ronald Coase was one of those economists whose contributions were so significant and so longstanding that you assumed he had to be dead. But he wasn't, until yesterday, when he died at the age of...
View ArticleAngry Customer Buys Promoted Tweets To Bash British Airways For Losing His...
British Airways allegedly lost a man's luggage then wouldn't return his emails. The man turned to Twitter to vent. But he didn't just vent to his 500+ followers.Instead, he purchased promoted tweets,...
View ArticlePilot Executes 'Textbook' Crash Landing After Aircraft Loses Power On...
ABC News has published an amazing video of what happened when a light aircraft lost power over Queensland with a 22-year-old flight instructor and his 18-year-old student on board.Josh Matica was at...
View Article'Salinger' Filmmakers' Plane Crash Lands At Telluride Film Festival
“Salinger” co-author David Shields, Weinstein Co. publicist Emmy Chang, and eight others crash-landed at the Telluride Regional Airport Sunday — but luckily no one was injured."The left landing gear...
View ArticleFighter Jets And Helicopters Perform At Russia's International Air Show...
Russia's biennial International Aviation and Space Airshow, also known as MAKS, kicked off last week, and it's an impressive show.The first few days of the show, held near Moscow, were reserved for...
View ArticleWorld's Top Shipping Company Has The Best Instagram Account If You Like...
Maersk Line, which is the world's largest cargo shipper, has an awesome Instagram account that should appeal to anyone who's interested in world trade, or even just gigantic ships.We picked out some of...
View ArticleYour Car Is Becoming The Ultimate Smartphone
This post is sponsored by SAP.Someday soon, your car won't be just a vehicle to transport you from Point A to Point B, but a rolling, seat-belted mobile device.Right now, most cars with onboard...
View ArticleDelta Just Bought $5.6 Billion Worth Of Airbus Jets
Delta has ordered 40 Airbus jets worth $5.6 billion, it announced this morning. It will take delivery of the 10 widebody A330-300 and 30 narrowbody A321 jets between 2015 and 2017.The aircraft, Delta...
View ArticlePHOTO: Airbus Proves Its Huge New Warplane Doesn't Need A Paved Runway
Airbus delivered the first A400M Atlas to the French Air Force in August, but it's still busy running trials to prove just how much the huge new warplane can do.The Military branch of the European...
View ArticleEtihad Airways Is Hiring 500 Nannies To Take Care Of Your Kids In The Air
Traveling with kids is about to get a lot nicer for passengers on Etihad Airways: The classy airline is launching an in-flight nanny service on long haul trips. By the end of 2013, 500 "Flying Nannies"...
View ArticleHow Audi Almost Convinced Me To Buy A Diesel Car
Diesel passenger cars are resurgent in the American market, to the point where some analysts say their presence on U.S. roads will double by 2018.Germany’s Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz are all...
View ArticleUS Auto Sales Surge To A 6-Year High (F, GM, TM)
The big auto makers have been announcing their August sales figures throughout the day.At this point, it looks like U.S. auto sales hit an annualized rate of 16.0 million, up from around 15.7 million...
View ArticleThe 23 Best-Selling Cars In America (GM, F, TM)
August auto sales are in, with big manufacturers posting huge figures.According to Wards Auto, U.S. auto makers sold almost 1.5 million vehicles in August. That boosted the annualized rate above 16...
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