The Latest Breaking News from Palo Alto

What's Up With Tesla's New Engineering Headquarters In California?

Tesla officially moved its corporate headquarters from California to Texas, but decided to open an engineering headquarters in Palo Alto. Here's what we know.

InsideEVs · Mar 18, 2023

E-bikes are an environmental dream — except out in nature

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The boom in electric-powered bicycling is reducing car travel, lowering carbon emissions and introducing homebodies to exercise and the great outdoors.

Tribune News Service · Mar 3, 2023

Did Tesla Tease Next-Gen Platform / $25K Model In Engineering HQ Video?

Tesla announced that its Engineering headquarters will be located in Palo Alto, CA. In the video for the announcement, it seems the new platform appears.

InsideEVs · Feb 23, 2023

Elizabeth Holmes: What convictions and acquittals led up to her sentencing

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes walked into her criminal trial in federal court in San Jose in September 2021 charged with 12 counts of fraud in connection with her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup. Four months later, she walked out guilty on four counts, after a jury found her liable for…

Tribune News Service · Nov 18, 2022

Tesla Previews Humanoid Robot, but Musk Cautions It Is Not Ready Just Yet

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Friday the electric vehicle maker's eagerly anticipated humanoid robot "Optimus" would cost under $20,000 and cautioned it still had way to go before becoming fully functional. "There's still a lot of work to be done to refine Optimus and prove it," Musk told the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 1, 2022

GM partners with Silicon Valley company on battery tech

General Motors Co. and Palo Alto-based OneD Battery Sciences have entered a joint research development agreement for the potential use of OneD's silicon nanotechnology in GM's battery cells to increase energy density for longer range at a lower cost.

Tribune News Service · Sep 29, 2022

Snap chops nearly 500 California jobs, more than 80 in Bay Area

PALO ALTO, California — Snap has decided to chop nearly 500 jobs in California, including scores of layoffs in the Bay Area, a brutal round of cost-cutting ushered in by a string of setbacks in the financial results for the Snapchat owner.

Tribune News Service · Sep 9, 2022

Elizabeth Holmes tries and fails to get jury’s fraud verdict thrown out for good

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, convicted by a jury in January of four counts of defrauding investors in her now-defunct Palo Alto blood-testing startup, appeared in federal court in San Jose on Thursday seeking to have the verdict thrown out, with no new trial, but the judge in a preliminary ruling…

Tribune News Service · Sep 1, 2022

Commentary: Monkeypox is not the next COVID. But it’s spreading from the same failures

The recent discovery by Stanford scientists that wastewater in Palo Alto, Sacramento and other cities in the Bay Area contains monkeypox DNA means that the outbreak has gained traction in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a monkeypox emergency on Monday.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 4, 2022

Musk threatens to walk away from Twitter deal over fake accounts

Elon Musk's legal team has warned Twitter that the Tesla boss could walk away from a $44 billion deal to buy the social media giant, accusing it of breaching its contractual obligations by not sharing information about how fake accounts are calculated. We take a closer look. Plus, at its…

France 24 · Jun 7, 2022