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A history and politics teacher has been crowned as the first winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 14 years. Donald Fear, 57, now plans to spend some of his £1m prize money on a motor home to holiday across the UK. The father of four, who lives in Telford, correctly answered the

Tesla is preparing to export its made-in-China Model 3 cars to Europe and other markets, according to two new reports despite Elon Musk saying that Tesla wasn’t going to do just that. When Tesla started building its Gigafactory in Shanghai, in an attempt to reassure people that the automaker wasn’t just shifting production capacity to

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Lucid has teased a new electric SUV to be based on the same platform as its newly launched Air electric sedan. We already caught a glimpse of the electric SUV when it was spied on while filming some media content last month. But now Lucid has made it official: their next car is going to

Actress Dame Diana Rigg, Bond girl and star of Avengers and Game Of Thrones, has died at the age of 82. She died of cancer, which had been diagnosed in March. A statement from her agent, Simon Beresford, said: “It is with tremendous sadness that we announce that Dame Diana Rigg died peacefully early this

Ewan McGregor is a man used to zipping up his leathers and hitting the road on his motorbike, but he admits there’s still a certain scepticism around the electric kind. The Star Wars actor told the Sky News Backstage podcast: “There’s sort of stigma in the bike world… You hear the word hairdryer used… “But

Sally Potter’s new film The Roads Not Taken is a study of dementia, dedicated to her own brother, Nic, who had Pick’s Disease, a rare type of age-related dementia. In the movie the lead character, played by Javier Bardem, is seen going about a normal day in New York city – attending appointments with his

More than 7,500 people have now complained to Ofcom following a dance inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement performed on Britain’s Got Talent. Following the routine by previous winners Diversity on Saturday night, hundreds of people complained to the media watchdog in the hours that followed. As the story made headlines this week, the

Lucid has finally fully unveiled the production version of its first car: the Lucid Air, a luxury electric sedan. For those of you who have been following our coverage pver the past few months, there won’t be many surprises since Lucid has gradually leaked the most important information, but it’s still worth diving a little

GM is unveiling today its new wireless battery management technology that will power its third-generation electric vehicles equipped with Ultium batteries. Earlier this year, GM unveiled its new electric strategy based on its new Ultium modular battery platform that will power a series of new electric cars starting with the Cadillac Lyric. Now GM reveals

Lily Allen and David Harbour have tied the knot in a chapel in Las Vegas, according to reports. The singer, 35, and Stranger Things actor, 45, have been dating since last summer, and Allen has been pictured wearing a diamond engagement ring since April. Now it appears they may have taken the next step in their

The Oscars has introduced a new set of guidelines for its most prestigious award, best picture. The rules mean that films applying for the category will soon have to meet certain diversity standards, in a bid to improve representation on and off screen and more accurately reflect the movie-going audience. The Academy of Motion Picture

At 8.59am on Saturday 3 October, a group of actors including Jude Law will be gathered on Osea, a small island off the coast of Essex only reachable by causeway, seconds from pressing go on something of a TV first. For 12 hours, the cast of Sky and HBO’s ambitious new show The Third Day

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee

Nikola Motor announced a partnership with GM that will result in the latter engineering and manufacturing its upcoming Badger electric/hydrogen pickup truck, and maybe eventually its other vehicles. Before Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck last year, Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola Motors, tweeted renders of a pickup truck that the company created and suggested that Tesla