U.S. stocks fell Tuesday as investors parsed the latest headlines on tensions in the Middle East. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 122 points, or 0.4%, to 28581 in morning trading. The S&P 500 dropped 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.2%. The…
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Month: January 2020
Tesla driver who failed to close gullwing door makes a costly mistake
The purpose of automated attendant/interactive voice response phone menu systems is to make you fuck off before you trouble a human being. But such systems have a moral spectrum of their own, in which you cannot be simply dispatched or hung up on. The decisio…
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Comma.ai launches Comma Two, a $999 kit that imbues cars with assisted driving features
Two years ago, optimistic analysts predicted that upwards of 10 million self-driving cars would hit the road by 2020. They werent the only ones anticipating ubiquity in 2015 and 2016, respectively, pieces in The Guardian and Business Insider proclaimed that f…
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The Margin: Elon Musk says his ‘NSFW’ dance was just an effort to gain Pornhub followers
Give the guy a break. Youd be dancing, too hopefully with a little more rhythm if your stock was performing like Teslas TSLA, +1.62% . Yes, with shares of his electric-car company surging to record highs, Elon Musk took the stage at Teslas new Shanghai fa…
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Market Snapshot: U.S. stocks hover less than 1% from records as Wall Street tries to shake off Middle East worries
U.S. stocks on Tuesday were seen trading mostly higher after a firm comeback late in the previous session suggesting that investors are willing to buy stocks despite anxieties about Middle East tensions between the U.S. and Iran. How did benchmarks perform?…
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