Month: November 2020

Nikola stock plunges as company cancels Badger pickup truck

GM will supply hydrogen fuel cells for Nikola’s semis, but that’s it.

A large pickup truck gradually vanishes.

Enlarge / The front half of the Nikola Badger. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Nikola Motor Corporation)

Things keep going downhill for aspiring hydrogen truck-maker Nikola.

Nikola's stock plunged on Monday morning as the company announced that a previously announced deal with General Motors was not going to close. Instead, the two companies signed a "non-binding memorandum of understanding" related to the use of GM's hydrogen fuel cell technology in Nikola's future semi trucks. GM will not take a stake in Nikola as originally planned.

Nikola's stock is down 26 percent as I write this on Monday morning. The stock is down 58 percent since September 8, the day Nikola originally announced the GM deal.

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Privater Hotspot: Telekom schafft WLAN To Go im Heimrouter ab

Mit einem Speedport-Firmware-Update löscht die Deutsche Telekom eine Funktion, die den Heimrouter als privaten Hotspot für WLAN To Go öffnet. Die Funktion wird nicht mehr vermarktet. (Speedport, Telekom)

Mit einem Speedport-Firmware-Update löscht die Deutsche Telekom eine Funktion, die den Heimrouter als privaten Hotspot für WLAN To Go öffnet. Die Funktion wird nicht mehr vermarktet. (Speedport, Telekom)

Watch live: China attempts Chang’e 5 Moon landing [Updated]

The Asian nation currently has seven spacecraft operating near or on the Moon.

Technicians celebrate the successful launch of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China.

Enlarge / Technicians celebrate the successful launch of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China. (credit: Jin Liwang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Update, Tuesday 9:20am ET: It appears that Chinese state television will broadcast the landing attempt of its Chang'e 5 mission live. The landing attempt, which will seek to collect and return rocks from the surface of the Moon, is expected to begin at 9:58am ET (14:58 UTC) and be completed by 10:13am ET (15:13 UTC).

The best available live video will be embedded below.

Chang'e 5 lunar landing.

Original post: China's ambitious space program does not often publish detailed plans of its activities in advance—perhaps because it makes it easier for the government to explain away any failures. But thanks to social media leaks, we can now be reasonably confident that the country will attempt to land its Chang'e 5 mission on the Moon on Tuesday.

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CoD, Crysis, Dirt 5, Watch Dogs, WoW: Radeon-Raytracing kann auch schnell sein

Wer mit Raytracing zockt, hat je nach Titel mit einer Radeon RX 6800 statt einer Geforce RTX 3070 teilweise die besseren (Grafik-)Karten. Ein Test von Marc Sauter (Raytracing, Grafikhardware)

Wer mit Raytracing zockt, hat je nach Titel mit einer Radeon RX 6800 statt einer Geforce RTX 3070 teilweise die besseren (Grafik-)Karten. Ein Test von Marc Sauter (Raytracing, Grafikhardware)