Last week, Tesla recalled 3,878 Cybertrucks after social media videos showed the truck’s accelerator pedal could become lodged in a full-throttle position under the interior trim. Now the company has an exceedingly simple fix for the faulty pedal. A Tesla service bulletin and photos and video posted online by Cybertruck owners shows the company’s fix: a rivet installed on the bottom end of the pedal pad that prevents it from sliding off. Here is the @cybertruck 35 second recall fix at the Cyber takeover event pic.twitter.com/XGsINAEFHQ — Aaron Cash (@aaronjcash) April 20, 2024 In a National ..read more

Japan’s antitrust watchdog said Monday that U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo in Japan. The Japan Fair Trade Commission said in a statement that its recent study of Google’s practices showed it was undermining fair competition in the advertising market. Yahoo Japan Corp., which has since merged with the Japanese social media platform Line, began keyword-targeted search advertising services using Google’s technology after the two companies formed a tie-up in 2010. The FTC alleges that Google had imposed restrictions in its search advertisin ..read more

Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick’s home to white dust, the cheapest rental she and her now-husband could find for their family and dogs cost $10,000 a month. Chadwick, a fine-dining server, moved to Florida where she could stretch her homeowners insurance dollars. She’s worried Maui’s exorbitant rental prices, driven in part by vacation rentals that hog a limited housing supply, will hollow out her tight-knit t ..read more

Work is set to begin Monday on a $12 billion high-speed passenger rail line between Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, with officials projecting millions of ticket-buyers will be boarding trains by 2028. Brightline West, whose sister company already operates a fast train between Miami and Orlando in Florida, aims to lay 218 miles (351 kilometers) of new track between a terminal to be built just south of the Las Vegas Strip and another new facility in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Almost the full distance is to be built in the median of Interstate 15, with a station stop in San Bernardino Cou ..read more

TikTok on Sunday repeated its free-speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. if Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year. The House passed the legislation on Saturday by a margin of 360 to 58. It now moves to the Senate where it could be taken up for a vote in the coming days. President Joe Biden has previously said he would sign the legislation on TikTok. Many U.S. lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties and the Biden administration say TikTok poses national security risks b ..read more

If you have any ground beef in your refrigerator or freezer, you’ll want to check it immediately. That’s because the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert after discovering that some raw ground beef items that were shipped to retail stores and institutions nationwide may be contaminated with E. Coli. Though the FSIS has issued the public health alert, a recall order was not issued. The FSIS says that is because the affected products are no longer available for purchase. However, the fear is that consumers or restaurants may ..read more

According to the Gallup World Poll for the World Happiness Report 2024, America has fallen out of the top 20 happiest countries for the first time. This is not surprising considering the rising costs of living, a daily barrage of unsettling news reports, and the lingering effects of loneliness from the pandemic. Social media, particularly for Gen Z and millennials, has replaced much-needed in-person interactions and oftentimes creates a feeling of missing out. And, while most of corporate America has returned to the office, we still find ourselves spending a disproportionate amount of time at ..read more

All it took was a little drama to teach millions of music fans worldwide about the environmental impact of vinyl. When pop star Billie Eilish, who is green in more ways than just her occasional hairstyle, gave an interview about sustainability last month, it went viral after the entire internet assumed her comments about wasteful packaging were aimed at Taylor Swift. It didn’t take any drama, however, to push musician Dave Newell into making his then-hypothetical vinyl press as eco-friendly as possible. Quite the opposite, in fact. All he needed was a loving nudge from his wife, Betsy Bemis, t ..read more

Over the last few years, I’ve begun to experience a very unique kind of personal Mandela effect familiar to anyone born before the 21st century. When I watch old TV shows, I discover they don’t really sound the same. The issue isn’t the dialogue, it’s the music. I first noticed this during an extremely ill-advised How I Met Your Mother rewatch on Netflix before the pandemic, and have since encountered it again when revisiting  X-Files, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and most recently Gilmore Girls. Others have lodged similar complaints against everything from Friday Night Lights to Supernatura ..read more

Children in marginalized communities often lack access to healthy foods, especially fresh fruits, and vegetables. Poor nutrition, in turn, has significant negative impacts on a child’s health and ability to focus in school. Learning and academic achievement often plummet. “Children will never be well-read if they are not well-fed,” says Stephen Ritz, veteran educator and founder of Green Bronx Machine, a nonprofit organization driven by the belief that healthy students are the heart of healthy communities.  Ritz originally conceived Green Bronx Machine as an afterschool workforce developm ..read more