An electric vehicle plugged into a charging station. A new proposal would boost the tax credit for US union-made EVs. Honda and Toyota are criticizing a new proposal by Democratic lawmakers to expand tax credits for electric vehicles, saying it discriminates against non-union auto workers, Reuters reported. Under the proposal, US union-made electric vehicles would
Read MoreGoogle Hangouts was one of Google’s best chat apps. It boasted a bunch of useful and, for its time, innovative features that still exist in other apps today. Here’s a fun fact: when Android Authority was a younger and smaller company, we actually did the bulk of our communications in a Google Hangouts group chat
Read MoreMany of us struggle to memorize things we see, read or learn every day. Recollecting even the points discussed in a team meeting or a brown bag session a few days ago can be challenging for most people. Professionals and organizations use various techniques to overcome this challenge. Some try visuals, while some others use
Read MoreCar keys these days are remarkably complex beasts. Covered in buttons and loaded with security transponders, they often cost hundreds of dollars to replace if you’re unlucky enough to lose them. However, back in the day, keys used to just be keys — a hunk of metal in a mechanical pattern to move some levers
Read MoreWe live during a time of live, real-time culture. Telecasts, spontaneous tweetstorms, on-the-scene streams, rapid-response analysis, war rooms, Clubhouses, vlogging. We have to interact with the here and now, feel that frisson of action. It’s a compulsion: we’re enraptured by the dangers that are terrorizing whole segments of the planet. Just this past month, we
Read MoreMike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: Kuo: iPhone 13 Pro lineup will gain 1TB storage option; Apple to announce AirPods 3, but will continue to sell current generation AirPods too — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has chimed in on what he expects to see during Tuesday’s Apple Event, and is taking some stabs at pricing.
Read MoreThe cybersecurity world’s favorite catchphrase isn’t any one product or system, but a holistic approach to minimizing damage.
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Read MoreIf Gutenberg were alive today, he’d be a very busy angel investor. With book sales booming during the COVID-19 lockdowns last year, the humble written word has suddenly drawn the limelight from VCs and founders. We’ve seen a whole cavalcade of new products and fundings, including algorithmic recommendation engine BingeBooks, book club startups like Literati
Read MoreThe tiny optical devices turn up in lane markers, road signs, bike gear and even on the moon, helping us see under low-light conditions.
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Read MoreLike many hackers, [Matthias Wandel] has a penchant for measuring the world around him, and quantifying the goings-on in his home is a bit of a hobby. And so when it came time to sense the current flowing in the wires of his house, he did what any of us would do: he built his
Read MoreScientists taught an artificial neural network to imitate a biological neuron. The result offers a new way to think about the complexity of brain cells.
Read MoreIf being cooped up has made you rethink your furniture, these sofas might help refresh your space.
Read MoreYou shouldn’t mess with some of them—but there are others you should be aware of.
Read MoreSmartphone manufacturers aren’t strangers to sly marketing tricks, as they aim to draw attention to their products and garner more sales in the process. Some of the more prominent tactics we’ve covered before include photo fakery, benchmark cheating, and misleading renders. These aren’t the only examples of sketchy marketing we’ve seen before though, and here
Read MorePatrick Clark / Bloomberg: NYC-based Orchard, which offers cash to homebuyers upfront for a new home before selling their old one, raises $100M Series D at a valuation of more than $1B — – Company raises $100 million in round led by Accomplice — Modernizing housing market is ‘capital intensive,’ CEO says
Read MoreI’m back with another of the talks from Hackerspace Gent’s NewLine conference, fresh from my weekend of indulgence quaffing fine Belgian food and beers while mixing with that country’s hacker community. This time it’s an overview from [Michael Smith] of the MiSTer project, a multi-emulator using an FPGA to swap out implementations of everything from
Read MoreChristopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Bezos’ biggest legacy could be “Bezosism”, using surveillance, algorithms, and data to supercharge old management systems and squeeze performance out of workers — The e-commerce giant has supercharged systems of management invented a century ago with surveillance, algorithms and data, leading to a new ‘ism’
Read MoreSome ideas are so bad that we just try them anyway, at least that seems to be [Ivan Miranda]’s philosophy. No stranger to just totally ignoring the general consensus on what you can (or at least should) or can’t make with a 3D printer, and just getting on with it, [Ivan] may have gone a
Read MoreVishal Singh / Silicon Canals: Denmark-based Corti, a SaaS startup using AI to help health professionals improve patient consultations on phone or video in real time, raises $27M Series A — Copenhagen-based Corti.ai, a healthtech SaaS startup that helps emergency departments to detect critical illnesses like cardiac arrest in real-time …
Read MoreRadio control cars have been a popular toy for decades, but their motorcycle counterparts have always lagged behind due to balance issues and compromised agility. At the same time, a little toy motorbike can be mesmerizing in action. [brettt3] built a few of his own design that look remarkably fun to play with. Modeled after
Read MoreSome hacker events are muddy and dusty affairs in distant fields, others take place in darkened halls, but I went to one that can be experienced as a luxury break in a European city steeped in culture and history. Newline takes place at Hackerspace Gent, in the Belgian city of that name, and I was
Read MoreGoogle One now has a 5TB storage plan | Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge After it ended free unlimited storage for Google Photos in June, many Google users had figure out how to store images and other data in the Google accounts. They could keep their Google account stored data under 15GB, or
Read MoreTodd Bishop / GeekWire: Study of 61,000 Microsoft employees shows the shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration, threatening productivity and long-term innovation — A new study finds that Microsoft’s companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups inside …
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