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Tesla's infotainment system has proved to be gaming-capable in the past, having been used to run a limited selection of titles, including AAA games like Cyberpunk 2077. Now, you can play more games than ever before on the system, as it now supports Steam. Starting this week, owners of Tesla …

Tesla cars are known for offering many superfluous tech-focused features including customisable horns, voice commands, and a Wikipedia-page-long list of easter eggs. One of these bonus features includes the ability to play a few games on the built-in screen. In the future however, Teslas will have access to thousands of …

While many people purchase Tesla cars for their focus on sleek designs and future-proof technology, the car manufacturer has had a history of decking its cars out with superfluous but fun features. One of the most interesting will see the classic 1991 side-scrolling platformer – Sonic the Hedgehog – come …

Tesla's Plaid model cars have been available since June, but only now are we learning about the specific hardware powering its infotainment system. After taking one of these infotainment systems apart, it has been discovered that it is powered by an AMD Zen+ APU paired with a Navi 23 GPU.  …

Alongside the announcement of the redesigned Tesla Model S and X, the company showcased the redesigned interior of these cars. From all the new bells and whistles coming with the new Tesla cars, the one that stood out from the rest is the new infotainment system, featuring 10 TFLOPs of …

EK Water Blocks has expanded its professional range this week with a host of new workstation/server-grade water blocks for powerful workstation graphics cards from both Nvidia and AMD, including Quadro, Tesla and Radeon Pro WX GPUs. The company claims that this is just the beginning of its push into the …

Following on from its successful crowdfunding projects Infinity UNO and X-Connect cables, Chargeasap has announced its latest innovation. The Flash powerbank from Chargeasap is now on Indegogo with pledges starting from £107 for early birds and £115 subsequently. The 60-day campaign will run until 27th March with units expected to …

Elon Musk responds to the SEC’s allegations, explaining that he has followed Tesla’s guidelines and is therefore not in breach of his agreement.

Although Elon Musk managed to finally release Tesla’s $35,000 model, the CEO is having a particularly bad year so far. The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a grievance against Musk for breaching his settlement agreement by tweeting about the company without authorisation, and now the Pentagon is reviewing …

Elon Musk’s personal vendetta with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) didn’t hinder Tesla’s bottom line last year, as the company managed to make its first-ever quarterly profit. In order to maintain this trajectory throughout 2019, it seems as though Tesla is forced to implement some extreme cost-cutting measures, …

In November, Tesla replaced Chairman Elon Musk with Robyn Denholm as per an agreement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Continuing to comply with the SEC’s requirements, Tesla has appointed two more board members at the end of last week; however their close relationship with Musk has raised …

At the end of September, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) forced Tesla CEO Elon Musk to step down as company chairman in order to settle fraud allegations. After rigorous searching, Tesla has now appointed Telstra’s CFO Robyn Denholm as chair of its board. The fallout came after Musk …

Earlier this week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) imposed a series of punishments against Elon Musk for false tweets that boosted Tesla stock. Instead of counting his lucky stars that the penalty only includes as personal $20 million fine and stepping down as the company chairman, Musk has …

Over the weekend, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fined Tesla CEO Elon Musk $40 million split between both himself and the company, based on allegations of fraud causing significant disruption in the stock market. Both have agreed to settle these terms without confirming or denying the allegations, leaving …

Moving on from his endeavours with flamethrowers, Elon Musk has since expressed interest in working with developers to eventually bring original video game content to Tesla vehicles. This has prompted quite the response from prominent figures in the industry, including Jackbox Games, PUBG and Razer. Tesla is launching Version 9.0 …

As many sites draw their attention to tackling fake news and questioning the credibility of ‘journalists’, Tesla’s Elon Musk might have the answer. Taking to Twitter, Musk proposed that writers should be rated on their credibility, outlining plans for a new website, dubbed Pravda, to do exactly that. This comes …

Tesla and Boring Company CEO Elon Musk has had a rough time lately, with many sleepless nights at the office trying to fix the problems with the Tesla Model 3. To aid the billionaire’s woes, fans have banded together to crowdfund enough money in order to replace what can only …

For quite some time, Nvidia has been a part of the self-driving car race, attempting to perfect vehicle automation to rid the need of a driver and, in turn, human error. In the wake of fatal accidents from tests involving Uber and Tesla, the company has since suspended all of …

The rise in popularity of cryptocurrency alongside its tendency to approach extremely high value has prompted an increase in hacker-based crimes. Just last week, over 4,000 UK government websites were breached in order to force them into mining cryptocurrency and now it seems Tesla is the latest victim as its …

Tesla has pledged to hit a production target of 5,000 Model 3s every week by the end of 2017 and even plans to increase that to 10,000 a week at some point in 2018. While a massive increase over its traditional production levels, it will be necessary, as Tesla has …

A report by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has not only vindicated Tesla with regards to the first person to die while using its Autopilot software, but has backed up its safety claims. It turns out that installing Tesla Autopilot software can reduce your chance of being in …

Panasonic has announced its intention to expand its current partnership with electric car marker Tesla, beyond the battery manufacturing deal the two currently have together. CEO at the company, Kazuhiro Tsuga said in an interview that he would like to see the company expand into autonomous driving sensors that could …

When Tesla's Gigafactory 1 lithium-ion production facility is complete it will be the largest building by floor space in the world. It's not quite there yet and isn't expected to be finished until sometime in 2018, but it's coming on apace. Even with just 14 per cent of it completed, …

Tesla and Space X founder Elon Musk could well be set to add another feather to his already rather busy cap. Annoyed by traffic on a recent commute, he has unofficially laid out plans to dig giant tunnels under cities in order to better facilitate cars of the future. Although …

The biggest market for electric cars that is also generating huge growth in the industry, is China by a landslide. However the U.S. isn't too far behind and while those two are outliers in terms of the existing market, many other countries, the UK included, are showing decent growth in …

Elon Musk's electric car company, Tesla, has been making waves over the past year for its Model 3, its acquisition of Solar City and its push for power storage technology, but its future cars could be rather eye catching too. Tesla has recently hired on its second ex-Microsoft and more …

Tesla has purchased one of the companies that helped it develop the Model 3 affordable electric car, Grohmann Engineering. The German firm is well known for its pedigree in automation and electronics manufacturing and will form the basis for the newly announced Tesla Advanced Automation Germany headquarters. Although Tesla has …

The electric car and battery experts over at Tesla, have promised to detail a new generation of consumer power storage combined with solar power later today. However, to whet our appetites a little, it's come out early with details of a second generation Powerpack. Able to store twice as much …

Although there are still plenty of car manufacturers pumping out new designs for human controlled, combustion equipped vehicles, many believe the writing is on the wall for the car industry. Along with being electric, our cars are going to drive us around autonomously and we may not even own them …

While the world and his dog seem to be working on automated car features right now, Tesla was the first to put one out there in the wild. However Germany's federal motoring body has asked it to stop calling its system “autopilot,” because it feels that the term could mislead …