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A hacker has leaked early footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, the next instalment of the popular video game series. The leak, including dozens of videos showing robberies, gunplay, and open-world driving, was posted to an online message board. Rockstar Games, the studio behind the game, said on Twitter on Monday: “We recently suffered a

If you see more electric vehicles across the southern United States, it’s not just you. According to the annual Transportation Electrification in the Southeast report, EV market share in the region doubled from last year with Tesla and Hyundai leading the way. And, perhaps more important, the industry’s growth is bringing new jobs to the region. The Southeast

The biggest downside to all of the cool and wild electric vehicles I regularly find as part of the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column is that most would never be street legal. But this fun-looking little flatbed trike truck seems to have solved that problem, at least in name only. The

Urban electric bikes designed for quickly navigating the city are the perfect solution for drivers that want to switch to a more efficient and more fun transportation alternative. And the Aventon Pace 500 Step-Through has just what commuters need all in one package. Anytime we get a chance to throw a leg over the Aventon

Victoria Beckham has hailed Queen Elizabeth as a “powerful source of inspiration”, calling her the “ultimate icon” who was “never without her signature lipstick”. The former Spice Girl turned fashion designer, 48, said she has spent the last week reflecting on the monarch’s death in a post to her 30 million followers on Instagram. It

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Lady Gaga has cut short her final Chromatica Ball world tour performance in Miami after a lightning storm forced her from the stage. The Born This Way singer shared an emotional video on Instagram, apologising to her 53 million followers and telling them it wasn’t safe for the show to carry on as “even when

Tesla announced that Gigafactory Texas has produced its 10,000th Model Y electric SUV as it ramps up production. One of the biggest stories at Tesla right now is the production ramps that the automaker is trying to simultaneously achieve at Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas. Those two factories are expected to roughly double Tesla’s production

Football is finally back. This year you can expect to see plenty of electric vehicles race across your screen during breaks. To promote its new EV lineup, GM is launching a new, in its own words, “aggressive and significant” ad campaign, which will air during NFL Sunday Night Football. According to a report from the

The Phantom of the Opera – Broadway’s longest-running show in history – is scheduled to close its doors after 35 years. The musical, which has been an iconic fixture since 1988, will play its final performance on 18 February 2023, a spokesperson said. It is the biggest victim yet of the post-pandemic cooling of theatre

A sombre and solitary silhouette in black opened Paul Costelloe’s Spring/Summer ’23 catwalk show, one of many designers paying tribute to the Queen at London Fashion Week. Costelloe, who has dressed many Royals from Princess Diana to Zara Philips and Sarah Ferguson, told Sky News the Queen was a huge inspiration to British fashion, especially

Equally important as adopting renewables is ensuring the buildings they power are also sustainable. Electrek spoke with Breana Wheeler, US director of operations at BREEAM, the world’s first green building certification program, about what the ideal decarbonized building looks like and how US real estate investors should see climate change as an opportunity. Electrek: What

Air Canada announced that it invested in Heart Aerospace, an electric airplane startup, and it is ordering 30 units of a new version of its first electric aircraft. Heart Aerospace Battery technology has improved enough that short-range commercial planes are starting to make sense. Several startups are working on viable electric aircraft, and some are starting

A former BBC radio DJ has been jailed for five years and 26 weeks after being convicted of four stalking charges againast broadcasters including Jeremy Vine. Alex Belfield, 42, was found guilty at a trial at Nottingham Crown Court last month of waging a relentless stalking campaign, with Vine labelling him “the Jimmy Savile of

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Actor Matt Smith, who played Prince Philip in The Crown, is planning to return to the UK for the Queen’s funeral so he can witness “a piece of history”. He told America’s Today programme: “We’ll never have a monarch that serves for 70 years again… I just want to be in London, I want to

Timothee Chalamet has become the first man to appear solo on the cover of British Vogue in its 106-year history. The magazine’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful said he had been waiting “for the moment to feel right” to have a man on the print cover, adding that he wanted it to feel “effortless”. Enninful described the 26-year-old actor

If awards shows can be used as a measure of progress in Hollywood then two back-to-back wins for female directors at the Oscars, with last year’s victor Jane Campion the first woman to be nominated twice, might suggest that things are heading in the right direction. But there is one category that still has some

Tesla is rumored to be hosting a visit from Francois-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s industry and innovation minister, amid talks of the automaker building a factory in Canada. Over the past few months, we have been reporting on mounting evidence that Tesla has been looking at a potential location in Canada for its next Gigafactory. Tesla plans to

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