Published: Aug 21, two thousand seventeen 8:Eighteen a.m. ET
Hidden fees and the old bait n’ switch
This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet.
When it comes to car ads, there’s little truth in advertising. However, that little bit of truth could make you a smarter car shopper. Read more
Tesla exposed more about its brand-new Model three than it ever has before just in time for the very first deliveries to customers. We know the details of pricing and available options, as well as a bit about how Tesla plans to scale to an annual run rate of 500,000 vehicles produced per year, hopefully by the end of 2018. Read more
Updated August 26, two thousand seventeen 14:22:06
A 19-year-old teenager has been killed in a flamy car crash on the Centenary Highway in the early hours of Saturday at Ripley, west of Brisbane.
The youthfull man was killed when his car burst into flames after it collided head-on with a four-wheel-drive vehicle about 1:00am. Read more
As I mentioned earlier this week, I was on a team at the ROpenSci Unconference (with Brooke Anderson, Karl Broman, Gergely Daróczi, and my Microsoft colleagues Mario Inchiosa and  Ali Zaidi) to work on a project to interface the R language with Minecraft. Read more
Is Sylvester Stallone truly dead? The “Expendables Trio” actor is yet another Hollywood starlet who has become a victim of a viral celebrity death hoax. The rumour, which spread like wildfire, especially on social media networks, originated from a fake Facebook page. Read more
For all of its engineering wizardry and marketing magic, today’s auto industry is running brief on strange. In dealerships, there’s something for everybody, from speed cranks to fuel sippers, but much of it looks pretty much the same. Read more