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Chances are you missed Doom Patrol when it debuted last year, due to the fact that it aired exclusively on the DC Universe streaming platform. (It's based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name.) That's a shame, because it proved to be a delightfully bonkers show about a "found family" of superhero misfits. For its forthcoming second season, the show will air both on DC Universe and HBO Max, hopefully expanding its audience. Judging by the official trailer, we're in for another crazy ride.

(Some S1 spoilers below.)

Timothy Dalton plays Niles Caulder, aka The Chief, a medical doctor who saved the lives of the various Doom Patrol members and lets them stay in his mansion. His Manor of Misfits includes Jane, aka Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), whose childhood trauma resulted in 64 distinct personalities, each with its own powers. Rita (April Bowlby), aka Elasti-Woman, is a former actress with stretchy, elastic properties she can't really control, thanks to being exposed to a toxic gas that altered her cellular structure. Larry Trainor, aka Negative Man, is a US Air Force pilot who has a "negative energy entity" inside him, and must be swathed in bandages to keep radioactivity from seeping out of his body. (Matt Bomer plays Trainor without the bandages, while Matthew Zuk takes on the bandaged role.)

Enlarge / The Nikola Two truck drives out on the stage at an April 2019 event. (credit: Megan Geuss)

Tesla's stock price soared above $1,000 on Wednesday. The rise pushed the company's valuation to around $190 billion—within striking distance of the world's most valuable valuable car company, Toyota, at $215 billion.

Tesla's stock surge comes a week after one of Tesla's leading electric vehicle rivals, Nikola, debuted its stock on public markets. Like Tesla, Nikola is building all-electric vehicles. But there are a couple of big differences. First, while Tesla initially focused on passenger cars, Nikola will initially sell trucks along with off-road vehicles and a jet ski. Second, while Tesla cars run on batteries, Nikola is focusing on fuel cells—though some vehicles will have a battery option.

Nikola's first week on the stock market has been strong, with the stock price nearly doubling to reach Wednesday's closing price of $65. This makes Nikola worth nearly $30 billion—on par with Ford—before it has shipped its first vehicle.

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  The Pixel 3 XL. [credit: Ron Amadeo ]

Francisco Jeronimo of IDC published some surprising sales stats for Google's Pixel line, saying that 2019 was the hardware division's best year so far, and with sales up 52 percent from 2018, Google managed to outsell OnePlus in 2019.

Google's Pixel line was most recently in the news for the fallout from a disappointing Pixel 4 launch, so some positive sales news is unexpected. A report from The Information claims that Google Hardware leader Rick Osterloh internally criticized the Pixel 4 before launch, and both the Pixel line's general manager and the Pixel Camera lead have left the team in the past year. As a response to the report, Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave an interview to The Verge saying "hardware is hard" and that he takes a long-term view of the Pixel team's hardware efforts.

These sales numbers are mostly not about the Pixel 4, though. In terms of devices, 2019 device sales for Google mostly means the Pixel 3 and 3a. While the Pixel 4 launched in 2019, that was only in October. The Pixel 3 was for sale the entire year, having launched just a few months before 2019, and the cheaper Pixel 3a was available from May 2019 onward.