Old diesel engines from various car manufacturers like Mercedes and Volkswagen are highly prized even in modern times. Not only were these engines incredibly reliable and mechanically simple, but they can easily be modified to run on a wide variety of fuels. It’s common to see old Volkswagen Jettas or Mercedes 300Ds running on used
Read MoreOrders for the new Model 915 Cyberquad for Kids are expected to ship in late November. | Image: Tesla After being recalled last year for not meeting product safety standards, Tesla’s $1,900 Cyberquad for Kids is once again available to purchase on the Tesla webstore in the US. The latest release of the Cybertruck-inspired ride-on
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Back in 2008, Google only wanted to collect a small charge to cover the costs of handling and billing on the Android Market. The company then settled on keeping 5% of the app store proceeds as revenue share. In contrast, by H1 2020, the Google Play Store accounted for
Read MoreVideoCardz.com: Asus apologizes for accidentally printing “Evangenlion”, not “Evangelion”, on new $700 ROG Maximus Z790 Hero EVA-02 Edition motherboards and offers replacements — ASUS will replace misprinted Evangelion motherboard parts — Purely cosmetic part has misspelled logo on $700 motherboard.
Read MoreWaverly Labs’ Forum app translates voice conversations between multiple languages at once, whether the participants are standing next to each other or spread across the globe.
Read MoreCredit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority The Amazon Echo Show 5 third generation shows its software version as “OS 1.1” instead of “Fire OS 7.x,” indicating that Amazon has already ditched Android. The appearance and user experience of this new Vega OS are very similar to Fire OS on the Echo Show 5. It
Read MoreStephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data protection commissioner, plans to leave on February 19 after ~10 years; GDPR transformed the DPC into the EU’s top tech regulator — – Helen Dixon this year slapped Meta with biggest GDPR fine yet — Irish watchdog is lead EU data enforcer for Meta and Apple
Read MoreIllustration by Nico H. Brausch for The Verge Robotaxi companies are eager to present themselves with a green halo. “Climate change is the single biggest issue we face as a global community,” Cruise declared in a blog post published on Earth Day 2022. “Each of us has an opportunity to make an impact. Cruise knows
Read MoreIllustration by Nico H. Brausch for The Verge For now, the window heat pump in apartment 1D sticks out like a sore thumb. Set between off-white lace curtains, it looks like a brand-new oven installed in a grandma’s living room. The heat pump replaced a radiator — those rattling, hissing things that are hallmarks of
Read MoreDeidre Olsen / Wired: How volunteer social media communities, like 39K-member Facebook group Thee Unidentified & Unsolved, are now using AI to help identify deceased people in the US — Poverty, fentanyl, and lack of public funding mean morgues are overloaded with unidentified bodies.
Read MoreCredit: Sonny Dickson on X Dummy units of the Galaxy S24 series have been spotted, giving us a good look at the device. The flat sides and sharp edges on the Galaxy S24 series dummy units are reminiscent of the iPhone 14 Pro, a design that even Apple has moved on from with the iPhone
Read MoreEyal Press / New Yorker: A look at some wrongful arrests in the US due to bad facial recognition matches, and how “automation bias” could lead police to ignore contradictory evidence — Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation.
Read MoreIn a year of record heat waves and rising global emissions, it would be easy to write COP28 off before it even starts. But that would be a mistake.
Read MoreAndy Greenberg / Wired: Three young hackers behind Mirai talk about building the DDoS botnet, losing control of their monster, their work for the FBI as part of a plea deal, and more — Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Google has revealed its Black Friday deals, with attractive discounts of $150 on the Pixel 8, $200 on the Pixel 8 Pro, and $400 on the Pixel Fold. Google’s Black Friday sales begin on November 16 on the Google Store in the US. Several other Google products are
Read MoreAnna Wiener / New Yorker: A profile of Holly Herndon, an artist and musician who uses AI in her work and has co-founded Spawning, a company to build a “consent layer for AI” for artists — The artist and musician uses machine learning to make strange, playful work. She also advocates for artists’ autonomy in
Read MoreStream decks are cool and all, but they are essentially expensive, albeit sorta cool-looking macro pads. So why not try to make your own? You don’t necessarily have to start from scratch. It all started when [dj_doughy] found an extremely clicky num pad in a recycle pile. It was so clicky, in fact, that even
Read MoreRest of World: An in-depth look at how platforms like Shein, Pinduoduo-owned Temu, and TikTok Shop are heralding a new era for Chinese e-commerce by expanding overseas — China is no longer just the world’s factory; now, it’s also the world’s mall. As online shopping slows within China …
Read MoreBenjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple extends free usage of Emergency SOS on iPhone 14 for two more years, to September 2025; the company has not yet announced how much Emergency SOS will cost — Apple today announced it is extending the free usage period for Emergency SOS satellite features for iPhone 14 users.
Read MoreLoom is a newer project in the Java and JVM ecosystem. Hosted by OpenJDK, the Loom project addresses limitations in the traditional Java concurrency model. In particular, it offers a lighter alternative to threads, along with new language constructs for managing them. Already the most momentous portion of Loom, virtual threads are part of the JDK
Read MoreC# 12, the latest edition of Microsoft’s popular object-oriented programming language, is now available as a production release, offering a simplified syntax and faster program execution. C# 12 was unveiled as part of the .NET 8 software development platform on November 14. Developers can access it by downloading .NET 8, the Visual Studio 2022, or
Read MoreWhen you want to work with a relational database in Python, or most any other programming language, it’s common to write database queries “by hand,” using the SQL syntax supported by most databases. This approach has its downsides, however. Hand-authored SQL queries can be clumsy to use, since databases and software applications tend to live
Read MoreJosh Ye / Reuters: Tencent reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$21.4B, in line with ~$21.37B est., and net profit down 9% YoY to ~$5B, beating ~$4.7B est., as game sales recover — China’s Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) said third-quarter revenue climbed 10%, as its games business staged a robust recovery …
Read MoreBen Otto / Wall Street Journal: JD.com reports Q3 revenue up 1.7% YoY to ~$33.98B, beating ~$33.81B est., and net profit up 33% YoY to ~$1.09B, beating ~$952M est., aided by cost controls — The bottom line was also boosted by nonoperating income — Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com beat analyst estimates for quarterly profit …
Read MoreCredit: Weibo The Xiaomi SU7 and Xiaomi SU7 Max have been spotted in regulatory filings. These would be the first electric vehicles from Xiaomi. Xiaomi has been vocal about building a car-inclusive ecosystem with HyperOS, and we believe the SU7 will be the first to launch with HyperOS. Xiaomi is best known for its flagship
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