Rivian moving forward on $5B Georgia EV plant
2025-08-23
The electric vehicle maker will host two events next month to mark the restart of construction in 2026. …Continue Reading
WEBTOON Partners with Disney to Bring Marvel, Star Wars, More to Vertical-Scroll Format
2025-08-23
Partnership will offer reformatted comics, brand-new original webcomics based on Disney’s most popular properties…Read MoreContinue Reading
Massive ocean discovered beneath the Earth’s crust containing more water than on the surface
2025-08-23
It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny little minds. First, there was the discovery of a terrifying black hole pointing right at us, then there was a huge hole found in the sun and a missingContinue Reading
Scientists discover continent that had been missing for 375 years
2025-08-23
Geoscientists discovered a continent that had been hiding in plain sight for almost 375 years. Historically, there’s been speculation about whether a continent known as Zealandia or Te Riu-a-Māui in the Māori language exists. According to TN News, Zealandia is 1.89 million square miles in size. It was part ofContinue Reading
QuantumScape and PowerCo expand solid-state battery collaboration
2025-08-23
QuantumScape, which is developing solid-state lithium battery technology, is expanding its strategic collaboration and licensing arrangement with Volkswagen subsidiary PowerCo. The companies originally partnered in July 2024. The updated agreement is designed to accelerate QuantumScape’s QSE-5 battery development pilot line in San Jose, a step forward in the industrialization ofContinue Reading
GreenPower to develop New Mexico electric school bus pilot program
2025-08-23
US-based EV manufacturer GreenPower Motor has signed a contract with the state of New Mexico to implement an electric school bus pilot project. The two-year pilot project will deploy three GreenPower Type A Nano BEAST Access school buses in the 2025-2026 school year and three GreenPower Type D BEAST andContinue Reading
Watch Blue Origin launch its 200th payload on 35th New Shepard spaceflight Aug. 23
2025-08-23
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle launches on the NS-34 mission on Aug. 3, 2025. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin plans to launch its 35th New Shepard mission on Saturday (Aug. 23), and you can watch live. The commercial spaceflight company, which was founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, will send its 200th payload aboveContinue Reading
Deep-Sea Volcanoes Could Hold the Key to Finding Alien Life in Space
2025-08-23
Deep beneath the surface of the ocean lies an extreme marine ecosystem home to submarine volcanoes, an opening in the seafloor erupting with magma to form new crust. Void of light with an immense amount of pressure, these remote regions are powered by tectonic processes to dissolve gases and metals into the ocean. Chemicals foundContinue Reading
No Regrets: Why Alaska Airlines Easily Got Rid Of The Boeing 737-900
2025-08-23
Alaska Airlines is one of the world’s largest operators of the Boeing 737, and the carrier currently has six different variants of the popular narrowbody aircraft in its fleet. However, Alaska Airlines is currently in the process of retiring one particular variant: the Boeing 737-900.Continue Reading
9 Daily: British Airways London Heathrow To New York Flights Return To Highest Ever Levels
2025-08-23
British Airways will be operating nine daily frequencies between London Heathrow Airport (LHR) and New York JFK Airport (JFK) next summer, its highest level in over a decade. As per data from aviation analytics company Cirium, the carrier’s summer 2026 schedule will shift its sole London Gatwick Airport (LGW) serviceContinue Reading
Aviator is a Fast, User-Friendly App for AV1 Video Encoding on Linux
2025-08-22
Heard of the AV1 (AOMedia Video 1) codec? Chances are you have, as this open source, royalty-free video compression standard is championed by the likes of Google, Netflix, Amazon, and even Apple. All for a very good reason (beyond the anyone-is-free-to-use-it-no-catches aspect). AV1 produces fantastic quality video at often significantly.Continue Reading
The Traitor’s gold-plated smartphone can’t seem to decide which design to copy
2025-08-22
Latest ad for the T1 looks suspiciously like a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra in a Spigen case Traitor 47’s personally branded wireless provider was supposed to have a “premium” Android smartphone – gold, of course – on the market by September, but it appears the mobile virtual network operator hasContinue Reading
OK Superintendent Plans To Give Transplant Teachers From NY, CA Woke Tests Developed By Prager U
2025-08-22
When the Techdirt community has had to hear so much about a single state’s education superintendent, you know something has gone horribly wrong. The horribly wrong in this case is Ryan Walters of Oklahoma. Walters appears to be doing some sort of combo-impression of Joseph McCarthy mixed with Traitor 47.Continue Reading