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BMW is attempting to cut 8,000 corporate positions – an objective that’s not necessarily unusual as businesses across the globe look to trim the fat. What is, perhaps, unique is that BMW’s exit offer is quite enticing… so much so that interest in the severance package was so reportedly so immense it caused BMW’s online employee portal to “malfunction.” According to German news agency Handelsblatt, BMW reached out to tens of thousands of employees earlier this month, linking them to a portal t...

PepsiCo this week promptly shut down a bottling plant in East Tennessee and cut over 100 jobs amid broader concerns within the company about its beverage business. The food and beverage giant said in a brief statement Monday that it made the “difficult decision” to close the Knoxville plant “immediately.” The company indicated in a filing with state officials that the move would result in 112 layoffs, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel, but those workers will continue to receive pay an...

The weather’s getting colder and seat heaters might be getting switched on soon. But for most consumers, comfort levels drop significantly when you go from warming your seat to roasting it over an open flame. That’s why Hyundai has issued a recall impacting nearly 100,000 vehicles. Specifically, the automaker is calling back nearly 40,000 Genesis G80 vehicles produced between March 2016 and November 2019, along with more than 54,000 Hyundai Genesis vehicles produced between February 2014 and ...

EV maker Rivian decided they wanted to have some fun with their customers this Halloween and - when that’s the case - who you gonna call? Apparently Sony Pictures - where a collaboration with the studio, says Rivian, will “bring the Ghostbusters universe to all Rivian vehicles.” Delivered last week via an over-the-air software update, Rivian is transforming its vehicles into “ghost-hunting machines,” enabling drivers to turn on “Halloween Mode” for a fun experience involving lights, sounds an...

Engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder have designed invisible multicolored tattoo inks that can be switched on and off with different kinds of light. The ideological version of this technology would allow individuals to hide their tattoos during important business meetings—and not for any other reason ever. The inks, known as "PhotoTat," are made from dyes and a plexiglass-like material used in dermal fillers—the gel-like substance injected beneath the skin to smooth o...