Elon Musk's deposition, Boeing's bad news, NASA's glitchy probe, when to exercise: The week's most popular
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has “self-inflicted wounds.” The hits keep coming for Boeing — and for Trump Media. The mystery of NASA’s glitchy probe is solved. And science has more to say about the best time of day to exercise.
Check out those and more of the week’s most popular stories on Quartz.
Elon Musk’s ‘self-inflicted wounds’ and other highlights from a newly released deposition
Elon Musk has never been one for restraint, whether it be announcing his latest potential Tesla and Neuralink plans or posting on X, formerly known as Twitter. But Musk may have taken things a bit too far when he amplified claims that Ben Brody, a 22-year-old Jewish man from California, was an undercover agent in a neo-Nazi group.
A Boeing engine cover fell off a Southwest Airlines plane and hit the wing flap
A Boeing plane operated by Southwest Airlines was forced to return to Denver International Airport after an engine cowling fell off during takeoff and struck the 737-800's wing flap.
Trump Media stock sunk another 10% and hit a new low
Trump Media & Technology Group stock fell another 10% as the shares traded at their lowest point since the company debuted on the public market.
NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been glitching for months and we finally know why
After months of sending unusable data to mission control, there’s finally hope for the Voyager 1 spacecraft. NASA engineers pinpointed the cause behind the mission’s odd anomaly, and think they can help the interstellar probe make sense again.
New science says this might be the best time of day to exercise
New research might help you make the most of your exercising: Scientists tracked the long-term health of people living with obesity and found that those who exercised in the evening were the least likely to experience cardiovascular problems or to die compared to non-exercisers and those who exercised at other times.
Someone took apart a Tesla Cybertruck and found a big battery pack that looks only half full
You never have to wait long for another story about the odd engineering choices of the Tesla Cybertruck. A new teardown video is going to show that even the angular truck’s massive battery pack seems half finished.
One of the best sports cars on the market costs less than a Toyota Corolla
Let’s say you’re in the car market looking for something fun or, at the very least, somewhat interesting to drive. There are some great options to be had on the used market and, if you’re not picky or a badge snob, one of the best sport sedans to come to market in the last decade can be had for compact car money, the Genesis G70.
Google’s new chips look to challenge Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon
Google said one of the few alternatives to Nvidia’s popular AI chips is now available to developers — and took a shot at Microsoft and Amazon, too. Google’s announcement was another milestone in Big Tech’s AI arms race. Nvidia is the main supplier of the AI chips known as GPUs, or graphics processing units. And Google parent Alphabet is one of Nvidia’s biggest customers, behind Microsoft and Facebook parent Meta.
15 failed concept cars
What’s cooler than a concept car? The sleek lines, the novel powertrains — few cars are as interesting or eye-catching on an auto show floor. But, while many concept cars eventually morph into nearly as-cool production variants, not all are so lucky. Last week, we asked you for your favorite failed concept cars — the vehicles that never made it to production — and today we’re taking a look at your answers. Let’s dive in.
Elon Musk promises ‘full data dump’ on Brazilian judge once X employees are in a safe place
Elon Musk is continuing to push back against a Brazilian judge who launched an investigation into the billionaire owner of social media platform X.
The most expensive handbags ever made
A purse is a purse is a purse. You put stuff in it, and you use it to carry that stuff with you as you go about your business. But some purses are more expensive than others because people enjoy the idea that theirs is made with a different material — or simply that it costs more. Chanel just finished fighting a years-long legal battle with resale platform What Goes Around Comes Around to make sure that the reputation of its bags stayed good enough that people would continue to pay lots of money for them. Some Hermès customers, a clientele so wealthy that the company spends more money on events for them than it does on advertising, are so eager to get their hands on the company’s pricy Birkin bags that they opened a class action lawsuit to do so. But the bags they want don’t even scratch the surface of the rarified heights of some these purses, which are among the most expensive ones ever made.
Nvidia is giving employees a 25% stock boost and calling it the ‘special Jensen grant’
Demand for Nvidia’s chips led the company to become the first chipmaker to hit a $2 trillion market cap, and now it’s reportedly rewarding staff with a stock boost.
Jamie Dimon says interest rates could hit 8% ‘or even more,’ and other highlights from his annual letter
Jamie Dimon has led JPMorgan Chase for almost two decades — making the 68-year-old one of the longest serving Wall Street CEOs today. Each year, shareholders, analysts, and Wall Street observers alike watch his annual letter to shareholders for Dimon’s thoughts on the state of the economy and his reflections on some of the biggest challenges facing JPMorgan and the world. Here are some of the biggest insights and takeaways from Dimon’s latest letter to shareholders.
Airbus confirmed it will leave Boeing in the dust this year
French aircraft giant Airbus has delivered 142 planes to customers this years, nearly twice as many as its American rival Boeing, which is struggling with production amid heightened scrutiny after a door plug fell off one of its planes mid-flight in January. And at an investor meeting, Airbus confirmed that it will keep up that dominance for the rest of the year.