Tokyo (CNN)The strongest typhoon to hit Japan’s mainland in 25 years years smashed a tanker into a bridge, forcing one of the country’s largest airports to close and hundreds of flight to be canceled. Winds lashed buildings and whipped up the sea, yanking an 89-meter-long tanker, the Houunmaru, from its anchorage and ramming it into…
The VW Beetle will end production in 2019.Image: Getty Images/Car Culture The car of our teenage dreams will be no more. Volkswagen announced that it will end production of the Beetle in 2019, finishing with the last ever models to the carry the name, the Final Edition SE and Final Edition SEL. SEE ALSO: Cars…
(CNN)Understandably, you have a lot of questions about Florence. So, we turned to CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller for some answers. (if you have more questions, tweet @brandoncnn and he’ll try to get to them.) What’s the biggest threat? Wind often gets the headlines, but water is the thing that’s most responsible for deaths in a…
This huge yet little-known South American wilderness is under threat. But plans to turn it into a sustainable tourism hub will help protect its people and wildlife In the far north of Argentina lies a vast and extremely hot lowland known as the Gran Chaco. Were you to find yourself in it, as I did,…
Freightos, a marketplace for logistics providers, announced today that it has raised a $44.4 million Series C led by Singapore Exchange. Returning investors including General Electric Ventures (the lead investor of Freightos’ Series B extension last year), ICV and Aleph also participated in the round, which brings Freightos’ total funding so far to $94.4 million.…
The Hawthorne test tunnel will soon be connected to a street-level garage.Image: the boring company A Southern California city gave the go-ahead this week to Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging venture, The Boring Company, to build an underground car elevator. Yes, a car elevator that would take your vehicle from your garage on street level to a…
Jalaluddin Haqqani was held responsible for brutal attacks on US forces and their allies An Afghan insurgent leader whom America sponsored for years as goodness personified and who then fought for decades as one of its most feared enemies has died. Jalaluddin Haqqanis death is unlikely to have much military impact, as he ceded control…
(CNN)As Hurricane Florence approaches, one of the biggest sporting events of the year kicked off Tuesday with a pledge from organizers to ensure the safety of all participants, human and equine. Opening ceremonies began late Tuesday afternoon under cloudy skies. By the end, rays of sunshine had fought through the cover. Tryon was a refuge…
South Lawrence, Massachusetts (CNN)Three Massachusetts cities are nearing a critical first step of recovery — ensuring homes are safe and have power — after a deadly series of fires and explosions last week, Gov. Charlie Baker said. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said Sunday that an underground regulator — a device that measures…
Its fine to watch films on but this tablet transforms into a gutsy work laptop when paired with the Type Cover keyboard The Surface Go is Microsofts new, lower-cost detachable Windows 10 tablet that looks to reinvent what a budget PC can be. The brief was pretty straightforward: make a smaller and lighter machine that…