The US Wants to Close an ‘SUV Loophole’ That Supersized Cars
A new proposal from the EPA would make it less attractive for automakers to build big vehicles.
Read MoreA new proposal from the EPA would make it less attractive for automakers to build big vehicles.
Read MoreHours after revealing an iPhone SE 4 update might have a different design than previously thought, a top insider now says it may no longer be on the cards altogether.
Read MoreApple’s iOS 17 is rumored to finally be bringing interactive Home Screen widgets to the iPhone.
Read MoreElon Musk will let people who pay for Twitter Blue send tweets of up to 10,000 characters
Read MoreEmily Parker / CoinDesk: A look at the impact of TerraUSD and FTX’s collapse on the South Korean crypto industry, as Korean media reports the TerraUSD project had ~200,000 local victims — The collapse of Terra continues to reverberate in Do Kwon’s homeland, but there are signs of progress, CoinDesk’s Emily Parker reports.
Read MorePhoto by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Hackers who claim to have breached Western Digital have reportedly stolen around 10 terabytes of data from the company and are holding it hostage. TechCrunch spoke to the hackers who appear to have control over Western Digital’s code-signing certificate, private phone numbers belonging to company executives, stolen SAP
Read MoreApple Books has announced a new partnership to bring webtoons, vertical reading manga, to your iOS device.
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter Blue subscribers now have a maximum tweet length of 10,000 characters and support for bold and italic text formatting. The announcement comes just weeks after the character limit for Twitter Blue was first bumped up from 280 characters to 4,000 back in February, with the latest increase and
Read More2019’s FairPhone 3 and 2020’s FairPhone 3 Plus are now receiving the Android 13 beta. A stable version of the software will reach all users by the end of June. The phones could receive software support until 2026. FairPhone is no stranger to extremely long-term software update pledges, as 2015’s FairPhone 2 recently received its
Read MoreLogan Roy wishes! | Image: PG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Everything’s coming up Murdoch! Succession is back, Dominion Voting Systems won’t drop its suit, and our boy Rupert may be open to further [LCD sound system voice] discovery, discovery, discovery. I am personally thrilled about this trial because I am a longtime Murdoch watcher. I love having more
Read MoreSolar panels are a special kind of magic — turning light into useful electrical energy. However, they don’t work nearly as well when they’re covered in dust, dirt, and grime. Conventional solutions involve spraying panels down with pure water, which is expensive and wasteful, or dry scrubbing, which can cause efficiency loss through scratching the
Read MoreThe Wankel engine seems to pop up in surprising places every so often, only to disappear into the ether before someone ultimately resurrects it for a new application and swears to get it right this time. Ultimately they come across the same problems that other Wankels suffered from, namely poor fuel efficiency and issues with
Read MoreA drone view of the giant wiper blade stretched across Cybertruck’s windshield. | Screenshot from video by Brad Sloan. A new drone video has surfaced showing the Cybertruck’s ridiculously large windshield wiper in action. And you know what? It’s functional — and perhaps improved — but still doesn’t reach a good chunk of the glass
Read MoreIt’s a familiar scene in 2023. A CIO nervously presents the cloud migration status to the board of directors. After a quick flip through a dozen or so PowerPoint slides and a review of the budget that supports the projects, a few uncomfortable questions arise: What cost savings is “the cloud” returning to the business?
Read MoreIn today’s data-dependent world, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. By 2025, IDC predicts that 150 trillion gigabytes of real-time data will need analysis daily. How will businesses keep up with this incomprehensible amount of data and make sense of the vast amounts of data they are dealing with now and for
Read MorePlatform engineering is a newer idea that aims to put the lessons of real-world devops into a more concrete, reproducible form. Devops is a powerful trend in software development because it helps to break down barriers in the software development life cycle. Platform engineering can benefit software organizations by improving quality, developer experience, and the
Read MoreFerretDB, described by its creators as a “truly open source MongoDB alternative,” has arrived as a 1.0 production release, with “all the essential features capable of running document database workloads.” Offered under the Apache 2.0 license, FerretDB is an open source proxy that translates MongoDB 6.0+ wire protocol queries to SQL, using PostgreSQL as the
Read MoreCredit: Walmart Walmart has launched the Onn Google TV 4K Streaming Box. The new streaming gadget costs just $19.88. Walmart is no stranger to offering its own streaming boxes, with 2021’s Onn TV box offering 4K streaming and Android TV support for $30 at launch. Now, Walmart has quietly launched a sequel dubbed the Onn
Read MoreA drone view of the giant wiper blade stretched across Cybertruck’s windshield. | Screenshot from video by Brad Sloan. A new drone video has surfaced showing the Cybertruck’s ridiculously large windshield wiper in action. And you know what? It’s functional — and perhaps improved — but still doesn’t reach a good chunk of the glass
Read MorePaul Sawers / TechCrunch: NYC-based NetBox Labs, whose open-source software helps manage and automate networks, raised a $20M Series A after spinning out of NS1, which IBM agreed to buy — NetBox Labs, a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January …
Read MoreJ. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter: Spotify brings its “broadcast-to-podcast” tech, which it acquired from Whooshkaa in 2021, to Megaphone, letting publishers convert radio shows into podcasts — Fox Corp. is one partner using the audio giant’s “broadcast-to-podcast” technology to turn existing Fox radio shows into on-demand podcasts.
Read MoreVolkswagen has continually teased the release of a new Microbus in the same way that Duke Nukem Forever strung us all along in the 00s, but unlike the fated video game it seems as though Volkswagen is finally building a hip new van rather than continually teasing its release year after year. With the clunky
Read More@twitterwrite: Twitter adds support for tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with italic and bold text formatting, for Blue subscribers — We’re making improvements to the writing and reading experience on Twitter! Starting today, Twitter now supports Tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, with bold and italic text formatting. Sign up for Twitter
Read MoreTonya Riley / CyberScoop: Hacker advocacy group Hacking Policy Council launches to support security researchers’ work; founding members include HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google, and Intel — “There are advocacy groups for reptile owners but not hackers, so that seems like a miss,” said Ilona Cohen of HackerOne.
Read MoreCredit: Xiaomi Xiaomi has announced that the Mi Band 8 can be worn as a necklace. The company will likely sell accessories that let you hang the new Mi Band around your neck. Some features of the fitness tracker may not work when worn like a pendant. Xiaomi is all set to launch the Mi
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