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Elon Musk said Tuesday during an awards ceremony in Germany that TeslaEuropean gigafactory will be built in the Berlin area.
Musk was on stage to receive a Golden Steering Wheel Award given by BILD.
&Therenot enough time tonight to tell all the details,& Musk said during an on stage interview with Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess. &But itin the Berlin area, and itnear the new airport.&
Tesla is also going to create an engineering and design center in Berlin because &I think Berlin has some of the best art in the world,& Musk said.
Musk took to Twitter after the ceremony and provided a bit more detail, including that this factory will build batteries, powertrains and vehicles, beginning with the Model Y.
Diess thanked Musk while on stage for &pushing us& towards electrification. Diess later said that Musk and Telsa is demonstrating that moving towards electrification works.
&I don&t think Germany is that far behind,& Musk said when asked about why German automakers were behind in electric vehicles. He later added that some of the best cars in the world are made in Germany.
&Everyone knows that German engineering is outstanding and thatpart of the reason we&re locating our gigafactory Europe in Germany,& Musk said.
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Write comment (90 Comments)Who shot first? Han? Greedo? Who cares. MACLUNKEY!
Disney+ launched this morning, and with it comes a mostly inexplicable change to one of cinemamost debated scenes — the encounter between Han and Greedo at the Mos Eisley cantina. For reasons unknown to anyone but George Lucas right now, a super brief but newly inserted clip has Greedo shout what the internet has decided is &MACLUNKEY!& before taking his failed shot at Han.
The change was first noted by StarWarsVisComp, a wonderful Twitter account that tears apart the countless different editions of Star Wars and highlights their endless (and sometimes quite subtle!) differences.
Before you go and get too mad at Disney for changing things for the sake of changing things: apparently this edit came from George Lucas — the uncontested champion of post-release cinematic change himself — with the new clip purportedly being inserted years ago during a 4K restoration that didn&t see the light of day until now.
Comparison clips have already started hitting YouTube:
And yes, for the curious: the &Maclunkey& line really is in the Disney+ release. If you&ve got Disney+, you can find it at around the 50:52 mark in &A New Hope.&
So whata Maclunkey? No one knows. As Uproxx points out, the rest of the dialog throughout the conversation is captioned. But Maclunkey? Thatleft to the viewerinterpretation.
Until we get further explanation, I like to think that itthe Rodian/Huttese equivalent of &Eh, screw it.& Found a stain on your shirt 10 minutes after getting to work? Maclunkey. Gonna take a cheap shot at the baddest smuggler in the galaxy without bothering to, you know, aim? Maclunkey. Edited a new bit of alien dialog into your classic film but forgot to come up with a translation before it shipped? Maclunkey!
Looks like the seed money that Maclunkey Toilet Pucks
gave to Disney+ is really paying off. #maclunkey https://t.co/ttgwz1BZLV
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) November 12, 2019
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Xiaomi's highly-anticipated Mi Note 10, also known as the world's first smartphone to employ Samsung's new 108MP camera sensor, has officially been announced for Australian release, with pre-orders for the handset now open.
Shipping from the first week of December, Xiaomi's latest flagship boasts a penta-camera system with 108MP primary sensor
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The best Chromebooks are a somewhat new addition to the laptop conversation but they are a wise choice for anyone looking for a new device or one solely for work.
Why is that? The best chromebooks can hold a charge that will last you through the day with their excellent battery life, and are very capable of multitasking, even if it may not seem
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Welcome to the Best TV Buying Guide: Get ready for TheIndianSubcontinent’s round-up of the best TV sets for your home in 2019.
The age-old question: when you're on the market for a new television, what really is the best TV out there? With so many sets appearing every year, each building on the improvements of its predecessors, even the best TVs
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Dell has unveiled its new consumption-based and as-a-service offering called Dell Technologies on Demand to provide its customers with more choice, flexibility and consistency in the consumption and delivery of modern IT infrastructure.
The new offering delivers IT with the agility of the cloud while also providing customers with the control,
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