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As much as I love EVs, I’ll admit, even the best electric cars come with a few real-world inconveniences. Gone are the days of range anxiety, but my biggest gripe is waiting around in a motorway services car park watching your battery up. Even the fastest chargers still take upwards of 45 minutes for a full charge. But BYD’s new charging tech promises to cram 250 miles of range into your EV in just 5 minutes. You could spend longer queuing for a lukewarm sausage roll in Wetherby services. This new battery tech comes courtesy of BYD’s Super e Platform.…
Microsoft is working on a new feature in Windows 11 that will help explain how less RAM or a weaker GPU might affect your PC performance. The latest preview builds of Windows 11 include a new frequently asked questions section in the system settings, with answers related to GPU memory, system RAM, and even OS versions.Windows watcher phantomofearth discovered the new section in the latest Dev Channel build of Windows 11 released earlier this week. Microsoft hasn’t officially acknowledged it’s working on this FAQ feature, and it’s currently hidden away and has to be manually enabled in the latest builds.The…
Atari is now selling a smartwatch that prioritizes fun over functionality. The watch’s user interface can be customized with Atari 2600-themed artwork and sound effects. But pushing it squarely into impulse purchase territory is the watch’s ability to play Centipede, Pong, Super Breakout, and Missile Command using the touchscreen or the watch’s crown dial functioning as a paddle controller.Instead of trying to compete with the Apple Watch’s capabilities, the Atari 2600 My Play Watch targets longtime gamers nostalgic enough for the consoles of their youth to spend $79.99 on an elaborately themed fitness tracker. The watch is available for preorder…
Apple fixed a bug in the iOS 18.2 Passwords app that, for three months starting with the release of iOS 18, made users vulnerable to phishing attacks, according to an Apple security content update spotted by 9to5Mac.Here’s how Apple describes the bug and its fix: Impact: A user in a privileged network position may be able to leak sensitive informationDescription: This issue was addressed by using HTTPS when sending information over the network.As 9to5Mac writes, the Passwords app was sending unencrypted requests for the logos and icons it shows next to the sites your stored passwords are associated with. The…
The bulk of the discounts we’ve seen thus far are pretty ho-hum — that is, aside from the current promo on Google’s Pixel Tablet, which is on sale at Amazon with its speaker dock starting at $399 ($100 off) or without the magnetic dock for an all-time low of $279 ($120 off). If you prefer a retailer other than Amazon, you can also grab the base-model tablet from Best Buy and Google for the same price.Despite having launched in 2023, Google’s latest slate is still arguably the best Android tablet available. Google’s app ecosystem isn’t as robust or as optimized…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed a prototype of the company’s first fully driverless vehicle tonight during its long-awaited robotaxi event. The new vehicle is dubbed the Cybercab, and Tesla let guests at the event ride around in them at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. The night’s surprise, however, was a brand-new “Robovan” transport vehicle that can be configured as “mass transit” or a cargo carrier.For years, Musk has been promising that a driverless Tesla vehicle was just “two years away.” Many delays later, Musk has shown fans and investors something. Their reaction to the “We, Robot” event will…
A month of anti-Tesla dissent escalated this week with two reports of Teslas catching fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City. The first incident happened early Tuesday morning at a Tesla collision center in Las Vegas, where police say a suspect in all-black gear hit several vehicles with Molotov cocktails and three bullets and painted the word “resist” on the doors of the facility, reports Las Vegas Review-Journal.During a press conference, Deputy Fire Chief Jennifer Wyatt said the fire department was able to extinguish two Tesla vehicles before the batteries ignited. FBI Special Agent Spencer Evans also spoke at the…
Nvidia is announcing its RTX Pro Blackwell series of GPUs today, designed to meet the needs of professional designers, developers, data scientists, and creatives. The lineup includes a top-of-the-line RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU for workstations as well as other RTX Pro Blackwell desktop and laptop variants and a data center version of the RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell.The RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell for workstations will ship with 96GB of GDDR7 memory and needs 600 watts of power, slightly more than the 575 watts of the RTX 5090. The GPU even looks similar to the RTX 5090 and has double flow-through…
Introduction A series entry set in feudal Japan has long been at the top of Assassin’s Creed fans’ wishlists, but Shadows arrives with more baggage than it ought to. 2023’s Mirage had scaled what had become an immensely bloated franchise back to its roots (historical tourism interspersed with unhealthy amounts of murder), yet here we are again: another vast open world to explore, and another lengthy gear and level-gated RPG structure in order to experience it all. Then there’s the new Animus hub the game sits within, which is desperate to show you how it interconnects with the other titles…
Nvidia has announced that Isaac GR00T N1 — the company’s open-source, pretrained but customizable foundation model that’s designed to expedite the development and capabilities of humanoid robots — is now available. “The age of generalist robotics is here,” says Nvidia founder and CEO, Jensen Huang. “With Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1 and new data-generation and robot-learning frameworks, robotics developers everywhere will open the next frontier in the age of AI.”During his GTC 2025 keynote today, Huang demonstrated 1X’s NEO Gamma humanoid robot performing autonomous tidying jobs using a post-trained policy built on the GR00T N1 model. “The future of humanoids is…
Don’t panic! Just follow these easy steps… It’s gone. But it was here just a second ago. It can’t be. Are you sure your prized premium smartphone isn’t in your other pocket? Nope, it’s definitely gone. That’s it. The world is over. Whether you’ve lost your phone or it’s been stolen, being unwillingly parted from your most regularly-used gadget can feel like a nightmare. While we can’t promise you’ll be reunited with your pride and joy by following these steps, they’ll at least make you feel like you did everything you could to get it back. And if it’s gone…
Oracle is closing in on a deal that would have it “vouch” for TikTok’s security in exchange for a small stake in the company’s US operations, according to Bloomberg. The plan, which was reportedly discussed among the Trump administration last week, would include “guarantees that an updated US version of TikTok would not contain a back door that China’s government could exploit.”As noted by Bloomberg, the deal may still leave the app’s algorithm with TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance. A source told the outlet that China is aware of the potential deal, and that the country’s authorities will only approve…