Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to complain about the latest Tesla Crash in Utah making it on the front page with the driver having only a broken ankle. Musk claims the media is focusing so much on the accident because the car’s controversial Autopilot mode was on at the moment of the impact. Last week, a female Tesla driver rammed into the rear end of a stationary fire … [Read more...]

After less than a year from Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, the e-commerce giant unveiled new perks for Prime organic food buyers. Amazon is likely looking for a larger Prime base to increase sales and foot traffic at Whole Foods stores. People familiar with the matter said that Amazon wants to entice Prime subscribers with new perks. Prime users will benefit from 10% discounts even on … [Read more...]

After Indiana lifted a decades-old ban on alcohol sales on Sunday, hundreds of customers took to local stores to buy booze on Sunday. Customers who purchased their favorite drinks in local liquor stores after the ban said the experience was ‘unique’. Some of them even demanded the receipts because they wanted to remember the event. Store owners said that after the ban was lifted they saw people … [Read more...]

An Iranian official tweeted Wednesday that Iran is testing a "cloud-based digital currency" which will be later sent to the country’s banking system as the country's first national cryptocurrency. The official that broke the news is Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi that is at the helm of the country’s Ministry of Information and Communications Technology. He made the announcement after a top-level … [Read more...]

A flight that was supposed to reach Amsterdam was forced to perform an emergency landing in Vienna after a man on plane who wouldn't stop farting sparked a fight with other passengers. Last weekend, Transavia Airlines plane was engaged in an emergency landing after two male passengers complained that an old man sitting beside them refused to refrain himself from farting despite them asking him … [Read more...]

Bitcoin has just dropped below the $7,000 mark after the fifth straight day of losses, dragging down the value of other cryptocurrencies in the process. It is the first time since November, that bitcoin hits such low level. The losses are caused by the governments’ clampdown on the cryptocurrency markets amid a speculative frenzy that pushed the value of the digital coins to artificial heights … [Read more...]

In January, the U.S. workforce grew by 200,000 more jobs, which beats previous expectations, according to a Labor Department report. Analysts think the trend a strong start for this year amid hopes that a Republican tax law would boost even more the job growth. According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent in January, for the fourth consecutive month. The lowest … [Read more...]

On Thursday, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that it was deploying a team of investigators to the crash site where a Tesla car on autopilot mode crashed Monday into a stationary fire truck in California. On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced a similar probe into the incident. NTSB’s team of two investigators is especially … [Read more...]

According to an Oxfam analysis, 80% of world’s wealth is now held by the planets richest 1%. In other words, 42 people in the super-rich club own as much as the world’s less fortunate 3.7 billion. Oxfam’s CEO Mark Goldring said that it must be something “very wrong with a global economy” that enables 1% of the global population to have a combined fortune that matches the wealth of the world’s … [Read more...]