Zipcar has reached the end of the road in the UK after its US owner pulled the plug on operations in the run up to the introduction of fresh London Congestion Charges for electric vehicles. The car hire business has begun a formal consultation with employees in the UK and will stop taking new bookingsContinue Reading
Proton has been on a roll lately. The Swiss company keeps expanding its privacy-focused ecosystem with tools that actually work for regular people. Take Lumo AI, for instance, their privacy-respecting AI assistant that doesn’t feed your prompts into some data-hungry training pipeline. And now, they are taking a big swingContinue Reading
EVs are increasingly being used as dispatchable resources for electrical grids, and companies are springing up to address this business opportunity. One of these is the UK firm Electric Miles, which describes itself as “an EV smart charging and flexibility technology provider.” The company works with several of the UK’sContinue Reading
Norwegian battery materials developer Vianode has chosen Ontario, Canada, for its first large-scale production facility for low-emission synthetic anode graphite. The project is structured as a phased, multi‑billion‑dollar investment, starting with an initial investment of over C$2 billion ($1.4 billion). Over time, planned expansions will bring total capacity to as muchContinue Reading
Google has fixed 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome versions 143.0.7499.40/41 for Windows and macOS and 143.0.7499.40 for Linux. According to Google, none of these vulnerabilities have been exploited for attacks in the wild. This major update brings Chrome up to version 143 and comes one week late with no reason givenContinue Reading
Someone at Valve must have a real passion for particle physics and science. After building Proton – the massively successful compatibility layer for running Windows x86 games on Linux – Gabe Newell’s company now appears to be turning its attention to Android and mobile devices with Lepton.Read Entire Article…Read MoreContinue Reading
Nvidia’s latest GeForce Game Ready driver prepares systems for Battlefield 6’s Winter Offensive update, delivering optimizations and DLSS 4 features. Nvidia is also restoring GPU-accelerated PhysX support for several beloved 32-bit classics, including Borderlands 2, Arkham City, Metro 2033, and more.Read Entire Article…Continue Reading
A researcher from the University of Tokyo and a structural engineer based in the United States have created a computational form-finding method that could reshape how architects and engineers design large, lightweight structures. Their approach is particularly valuable for developing gridshells, which are curved, thin surfaces formed from an interlinked grid of structural members. TheContinue Reading
Brady is a technology journalist for MakeUseOf with years of experience covering all things mobile, computing, and general tech. He has a focus on Android phones and audio gear, and holds a B.S. in Journalism from St. John’s University. Brady has written for publications like Android Central, Android Authority, XDA, Android Police, iMore, and others.Continue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix’s $72 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. studio and its film and television operations drew quick reactions Friday. Film and television industry entities including guilds and the lobbying group for movie theater owners criticized the deal, warning it would harm consumers and cinema owners. InContinue Reading
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts’ highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state’s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram to make them addictive to young users. The lawsuit, filed in 2024 by Attorney General Andrea Campbell, alleges that Meta did this to make a profit andContinue Reading
Laptop maker says a vendor breach exposed some phone camera code, but not its own systems Asus has admitted that a third-party supplier was popped by cybercrims after the Everest ransomware gang claimed it had rifled through the tech titan’s internal files.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
We Linux users have plenty of choices when it comes to spreadsheet software, with LibreOffice, ONLYOFFICE, FreeOffice, GNUmeric, KOffice and, new this month, Collabora Office among them. And for those of you who don’t mind opening a browser to work, the choice is even greater thanks to browser-based office web apps like Google Sheets, Zoho Sheet, and now Proton Sheets (yes, more sheets than a hotel in this sentence).Continue Reading