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Eurovision winners Kalush Orchestra – who brought home victory for war-torn Ukraine in last month’s contest – have performed their first UK gig at Glastonbury Festival.  The folk rap group opened their set in the early hours of Saturday morning, on Shangri-La’s Truth Stage, with a set of 13 songs – 12 of which were

Billie Eilish has become Glastonbury Festival’s youngest ever headline act, with the Los Angeles-born star performing on the Pyramid Stage on Friday night. During her set, the singer emotionally told the crowd that, despite her pride at performing at the festival, today was “a dark day for America”. Introducing her song Your Power – a

Months after initially announcing plans for a combined merger with Gores Guggenheim, Inc, Swedish EV automaker Polestar has successfully completed the task and has listed on the nasdaq under ticker symbol $PSNY, beginning today. The EV automaker first announced plans for a combined merger in September of 2021 with Gores Guggenheim, Inc. – a Special

Katie Price has avoided jail after breaching a restraining order blocking contact with her ex-husband Kieran Hayler’s fiancee Michelle Penticost. The 44-year-old former glamour model has been handed an 18-month community order to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work – with an additional 20 hours for breach of a suspended sentence for driving matters.

Here’s where the world’s seven largest economies stand in their clean energy transitions ahead of the 48th G7 Leaders’ Summit next week in Germany. The G7 and clean energy – what they need to do The G7 is made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US. A G7 commitment to “predominantly

This is big. General Motors (GM) has announced that it is adding Plug and Charge capabilities to its Ultium Charging 360 network of charge providers across North America. To begin, drivers with an EVgo account will be able to utilize the convenience of Plug and Charge before GM expands the technology to additional charging networks

The Sugababes, comprised of Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy got off to a strong start when they first arrived on the music scene back in 2000, with their debut single Overload charting in the top ten and being nominated for a Brit Award. But from that point their story veers from the traditional

Emilia Clarke has confirmed her Game of Thrones co-star Kit Harington will reprise his role as Jon Snow in a new spin-off series. In addition to the House of Dragon prequel due to air in August, Clarke confirmed reports Harington is also behind a second series linked to the original franchise. When asked about the

Rivian plans to install a 2.8 megawatt wind turbine on the east side of its Normal, Illinois, manufacturing plant. The wind turbine will provide clean energy to charge new R1 vehicles for the first time. Rivian has partnered with Charlottesville, Virginia-based renewable energy company Apex Clean Energy to develop and construct the new wind turbine,

Getting to this year’s Glastonbury has been a challenging journey for ticket holders. On top of the two-year pandemic postponement, when this week’s rail strikes were announced, thousands had to find a new route to Worthy Farm. With half of the specially laid-on services cancelled, there was a mad scramble to book seats on coaches.

Senator Joe Manchin, who has a swing vote in the US Senate, said that the Democrats have given up on the $4,500 electric car tax credit bonus for union-made EVs as part of the Build Back Better Act. It is still unclear what reform the EV tax credit will see in the spending bill, if

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Kalush Orchestra, who won this year’s Eurovision for Ukraine, will perform at Glastonbury Festival this week. The band won with their catchy song Stefania at the annual singing contest in Turin last month. Now they will be taking to Shangri-La’s Truth Stage on Friday to share their brand of “Ukrainian folk music, rap, and hip

With the cost of living crisis taking hold in the UK it might not seem like the obvious time to launch a new subscription streaming service. But if the last two years have taught us anything it’s that people rely on television when they can’t do the things they usually would – and Paramount will

Elon Musk says that Tesla is tracking to have a working prototype humanoid robot, Tesla Optimus, by the end of September. Last month, Musk announced “Tesla AI Day #2” with “many cool updates” on August 19. The original “Tesla AI Day” held last year was an event focused on the company’s self-driving program. The automaker also

Ed Sheeran and his Shape Of You co-songwriters have been awarded more than £900,000 in legal fees after winning their copyright trial over “baseless” claims about the hit earlier this year. Sheeran and two of his co-writers – Snow Patrol’s Johnny McDaid and producer Steve McCutcheon, known as Steve Mac – had been accused of

Global chemical giant BASF is going to build a commercial battery-recycling, black-mass plant in Schwarzheide, a town in Brandenburg, eastern Germany. BASF’s new battery-recycling black-mass plant The production of black mass, which contains high amounts of lithium, nickel, cobalt, and manganese – the key metals used to produce cathode active materials – is the first step in

EastEnders star Jessie Wallace was arrested outside a nightclub on Sunday on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and being drunk and disorderly. The actress, known for playing Kat Slater in the BBC soap, was pictured at a Madness gig in Thetford Forest in Suffolk hours before her arrest in Bury St Edmonds. A Suffolk

Tesla cars have been banned from entering Beidaihe, a Chinese resort town, for two months over concerns about spying amid a meeting of the country’s leadership. For the most part, Tesla and the Chinese government are believed to have a good relationship. The two came to a deal that resulted in Tesla being the first

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time that includes new electric bikes from Harley Davidson, Walmart getting in the mid-drive full-suspension e-bike game, new utility e-bikes from REI and Urban Arrow, a high power electric boat, a wild-looking