GM has decided to poke fun at the Tesla Cybertruck with a strange Easter egg in the newly delivered GMC Hummer EV pickup truck’s software. We have seen GM poke fun at Tesla before when launching new electric vehicles. For example, before the launch of the Chevy Bolt EV, GM released pictures of one of
This undated image obtained 22 February, 2004 shows the entrance to the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository located in Nye County, Nevada, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. AFP | AFP | Getty Images The federal government has a fund of $44.3 billion earmarked for spending on a permanent nuclear waste disposal facility in
Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister has resigned from the cabinet and will depart in the new year. Lord Frost quit in a letter to the prime minister last week, but won’t officially leave until January. Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates reports that Lord Frost goes “on good terms”, but he is unhappy with the
The Netherlands will enter into a tough lockdown from tomorrow morning to curb the spread of Omicron, with non-essential shops, bars, restaurants, and other public places to close. Schools will also shut from Monday, and the lockdown will run until at least 14 January, Prime Minister Mark Rutte has announced. He added it was “unavoidable
Chairman of Disney Michael Iger arrives for the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 06, 2021 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images New year prediction pieces are a journalism standard. But instead of giving my own projections, I asked 10 media executives, the promise of anonymity, to give me their
Extra restrictions are needed within days to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed by Omicron, according to senior government scientists. Sky News understands experts who produce advice for ministers believe there are now “hundreds of thousands” of infections every day, many more than the number of official cases recorded on the daily dashboard. Even if transmission
Rose Ayling-Ellis has been crowned the winner of this year’s history-making Strictly Come Dancing. Ayling-Ellis, with professional Giovanni Pernice, beat former Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite to the coveted glitterball trophy, who was also making history as part of the first all-male partnership in the show’s history. Presenter AJ Odudu had also made
Joe Biden has visited the graves of his first wife and infant daughter, as he marks 49 years since they were killed in a car crash. The US president visited St Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware on Saturday with First Lady Jill Biden and daughter Ashley. Mr
Author Julia Donaldson has told Sky News that children’s literature isn’t given the respect it deserves. The writer, best known as the creator of the Gruffalo, said she is frustrated by how little thought the media gives to highlighting the literary choices available to parents. Donaldson, whose 2012 book Superworm has been adapted into a
An 18-year-old woman and a 13-year-old boy managed to escape a burning building in New York by climbing out a window and scaling down a pipe, video footage has shown. The fire broke out on the fourth floor of an apartment block, located in Avenue D, in the East Village area of Manhattan, at around
National security analyst Asha Rangappa joins New Day to discuss a new report issued by the January 6 select committee about Mark Meadows’ communications around the Capitol insurrection. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Whitney Wild and Jeffrey Toobin report. #CNN #News
KYMCO, the largest motorcycle and scooter manufacturer in Taiwan, says it is likely to spin-off its IONEX line of electric vehicles as a new public entity with an overseas IPO. The move would take a page out of Harley-Davidson’s book. Back in the summer, Harley-Davidson announced that its single electric motorcycle, the Harley-Davidson LiveWire, would
Tidal turbine from Nova Innovation onshore prior to installation. Nova Innovation Britain’s emerging tidal power sector took a number of steps forward this week, with companies and projects announcing new developments in their plans to roll out projects and technology. On Thursday, Scottish firm Nova Innovation said it had secured 2.5 million euros ($2.83 million)
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has drafted in headhunters to shape a three-way internal contest to become its next chief executive – a process that could see the appointment of the first female boss in the chain’s 137-year history. Sky News has learnt that M&S’s nominations committee has hired MWM Consulting, a leading search firm, to
Ukraine faces “a dozen tonnes” of pro-Russian disinformation aimed at justifying Moscow’s false claims to the territory and to soften the ground ahead of a possible new invasion, the Ukrainian information minister has said. With international concern growing over the threat of a large-scale Russian military offensive, Oleksandr Tkachenko said his country is already under
The power sector is undergoing a rapid change globally as the world shifts to renewable energy and cuts down on using fossil fuels. However, a big roadblock to generating electricity from wind and solar energy is their intermittent nature due to unfavourable environmental conditions. To address this problem, storage was found in hydrogen batteries. But
Rock star Rod Stewart and his son have pleaded guilty to battery in an assault case following a New Year’s Eve incident with a security guard at an exclusive Florida hotel. Court records released on Friday show the singer and his son Sean Stewart entered guilty pleas to misdemeanour charges of simple battery. “No one
7:30 PM ET Roughly nine months since being left off the United States‘ Olympic qualifying roster, USMNT and FC Dallas striker Ricardo Pepi called the snub a turning point to his season. “It just made me hungry,” Pepi said Friday. “It made me hungry to go on for the year. To do good for my
Officials are drawing up plans for a two-week circuit breaker lockdown after Christmas which would include a ban on indoor mixing, according to reports. Draft regulations are being prepared which would ban meeting others indoors except for work purposes, and that pubs and restaurants would be limited to outdoor service only, according to The Times.
Depraved killer David Fuller will spend the rest of his life in jail for murdering two women and sexually assaulting dozens of corpses in hospital mortuaries. The 67-year-old hid his crimes for more than three decades until advanced DNA techniques identified him as the killer of two young women in Tunbridge Wells in 1987. WARNING: