Factory Town's Massive 5-Night, Multi-Stage Takeover Could Win Miami Music Week 2024

Factory Town is back and bigger than ever before with a monumental five-night takeover to celebrate Miami Music Week 2024. With sets and showcases from the biggest players in the electronic music scene, the sprawling Hialeah venue will span five eye-popping stages this year. Expect sunset to sunrise partying from Wednesday to Sunday during this … Read more

Japan’s factory activity contracts most in over three years

An employee checks gaskets after processing them in an automatic press machine at the Hamamatsu Gasket Co. factory in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. Noriko Hayashi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s February factory activity shrank at the fastest pace in more than three years on the back of weakening demand. … Read more

Donnell Rawlings Goes Ballistic on Comedian Corey Holcomb at Laugh Factory

Play video content TMZ.com Donnell Rawlings lost it on fellow comic Corey Holcomb at a comedy club this weekend — and it all seems to have stemmed from an insult the latter hurled at DR. This wild scene unfolded Sunday night at the Laugh Factory here in Los Angeles — where Donnell went up to … Read more

Huawei just retasked a factory to prioritize AI over its bestselling phone

Reuters reports that Huawei will focus on increasing the manufacturing of its AI chip, the Ascend 910B, at the expense of production of its Mate 60 phones in at least one facility.  Huawei makes both its Ascend AI chip and the Kirin chip, which powers the Mate 60, in one facility. However, production in the … Read more

US company says hostage-taking by gunmen at its factory in Turkey in Gaza protest has been resolved

ISTANBUL — Two gunmen took seven hostages at a factory owned by U.S. company Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey on Thursday, according to media reports, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Turkish media published an image of one of the purported suspects inside the factory, a man wearing what appeared to … Read more

China’s factory activity expanded in January, diverging from official data

Several bills, each with a value of 100 Chinese renminbi, lie on a table. Johannes Neudecker | Picture Alliance | Getty Images China’s factory activity expanded for a third-straight month in January, a private-sector survey showed on Thursday, helped by the first expansion in new export orders in seven months. Thursday’s print though, extended a … Read more

Tesla to spend $500M to bring its Dojo supercomputer project to Buffalo factory

Tesla will spend $500 million to build one of its so-called “Dojo” supercomputers at its Buffalo, New York factory, the state’s governor Kathy Hochul said Friday during a news conference just days after CEO Elon Musk called the project a “long shot.” Tesla’s decision was “informed by New York’s reliable power supply, strong talent pipeline and … Read more

First Bipedal Robots With Hands Coming to BMW Factory

BMW has signed a first-of-its-kind deal to put “humanoid” robots to work at one of its factories. The robots, which are designed to be more operationally flexible than traditional industrial robots, will supposedly assist the luxury car manufacturer with various parts of the manufacturing process. Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to Control Robots Next The robots … Read more

LG opens its first US EV charging factory in Texas 

LG Electronics has opened its first electric vehicle (EV) charger facility outside of South Korea — in Fort Worth, Texas — to capture a share of North America’s competitive EV charging market.  Its new EV charging station factory, spanning 59,202 square feet, has the capacity to produce more than 10,000 chargers per year, LG said … Read more

Tesla puts German factory production on hold as Red Sea attacks disrupt supply chains

BERLIN — Tesla says it’s temporarily halting most production at its German factory because of attacks in the Red Sea, a vital global shipping corridor. The electric vehicle maker said in a statement Thursday night that its factory near Berlin, which makes Model Y vehicles and batteries, will pause from Jan. 29 to Feb. 11. … Read more