Tesla and Luxembourg squabble over failed Model S braking test

Did you think Tesla could move past braking complaints just because it addressed the issue with the Model 3? Luxembourg certainly doesn’t. The European country’s testing and standards body ILNAS has put itself at odds with Tesla after conducting an unusually public emergency braking test (media outlets like Luremberg Wort got to watch) that compared […]

The founder of notorious failed startup Clinkle is reportedly coming back with a blockchain project

Clinkle Lucas Duplan, the founder of infamous failed startup Clinkle, is involved in a blockchain company. According to a new report from Wired, the entrepreneur invested in and is linked to Universal Recognition Token. His old startup, Clinkle, raised tens of millions from investors before totally imploding in what’s now considered a Silicon Valley cautionary […]

Star Wars: Analysts reveal the REAL reason why Han Solo movie failed at the box office

Several reasons have been touted as to why Solo will be the first Star Wars movie of the Disney era to make a box office loss. One popular one doing the rounds has been “franchise fatigue”; suggesting the five-month gap between The Last Jedi and Solo just wasn’t long enough. Another has been the prominent […]

CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose business link to China

Joe Raedle / Getty Images CIA Director Mike Pompeo failed to disclose links to a company owned by the Chinese government during his 2017 confirmation. The CIA defended Pompeo’s omission saying, “He would have no reason to know details on the layers of companies” that worked with a business he ran in Kansas. But in […]

‘Plan to make me look foolish failed’ – Craig Murray to RT on Skripal interview for Sky News

Former UK Envoy to Uzbekistan Craig Murray had a bone to pick with a Sky News presenter after his detailed interview on the Salisbury poisoning failed to make it onto the network’s website. Murray told RT why it was “buried.” “[The interview] was broadcast live, but Sky’s daytime audience is not all that large,” Murray […]

Russia’s call for a joint inquiry into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal has failed

REUTERS/Hannah McKay Russia’s attempts to push for a joint inquiry into the poisoning of Sergei Skripal has failed. Russia is believed to be behind the nerve agent attack in Salisbury England, despite its denials. It had called for involvement in the investigation by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Britain has called […]

China can succeed with petro-yuan where Gaddafi failed – killing the US dollar in oil trade

Muammar Gaddafi wanted to shatter the dominance of the greenback in the Middle East by introducing gold-backed dinar, but failed. China has a chance to finish what he started, one industry expert has told RT. “Ideas related to oil trade in currencies other than the dollar arose more than once. Some of them were severely […]

Simon Pegg Explains Why ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Failed at the Box Office

Star Trek Beyond was by no means a box office disaster. It raked in $ 158 million domestically and went on to have a $ 343 million total haul worldwide. But compared to its predecessors Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek Beyond failed to boldly go toward sky-high box office expectations. So what was the […]

Report alleges the House Intelligence Committee failed to investigate a stunning number of leads before closing its Russia investigation

J. Scott Applewhite/AP A new report from a Democrat-aligned group lays out the ways in which the House Intelligence Committee failed to conduct a thorough investigation into the President Donald Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia. The committee’s Republican majority voted to release their final report on Thursday, which officially closed their investigation. But the Moscow […]

Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes explains what he learned from sinking $25 million into a business venture that ultimately failed

Sarah Jacobs/Business Insider Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes ultimately made $ 500 million for helping his Harvard roommate Mark Zuckerberg build the company in its first three years. Hughes bought The New Republic magazine, a long-running liberal journal, in 2012, with hopes of making it a financially stable mainstream success. After investing $ 25 million into […]