You can now give the Ubuntu desktop a ‘Liquid Glass’ makeover using a new GNOME Shell extension that was written with ‘significant’ help from AI. Its developer, Ryosuke Watanabe, said they loved the look of Liquid Glass – Apple’s new design material that gives UI elements light-bending surfaces with depthContinue Reading
DELIVAN, a subsidiary of Chinese OEM Chery, has developed a new electric van for the European market, and plans to unveil its first production models at the upcoming IAA Transportation 2026 trade show in Birmingham. DELIVAN’s first two all-electric production vans represent two different sizes within the company’s forthcoming EuropeanContinue Reading
Nexperia and Aurobay Technologies will explore a collaboration on gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors for electrified and hybrid vehicle platforms. Aurobay Technologies is a division of Horse Powertrain, a joint venture between Renault Group and Geely, and the collaboration aims to combine Nexperia’s GaN and SiCContinue Reading
BANGKOK (AP) — China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems. The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday that said ChineseContinue Reading
An option pick a default terminal is to GNOME Settings, as the image above, teased by developer Ignacy Kuchciński last week, shows. Those of you who don’t use the command line often enough to care about what terminal is set as your system default, may be surprised to hear youContinue Reading
How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to help missions like Euclid and NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope answer fundamentalContinue Reading
A new study suggests the moon’s surface may be covered in microscopic fragments of ancient alien tech. Researchers propose analyzing lunar regolith to hunt for these extraterrestrial relics. (This photo shows NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt collecting samples from the moon during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.) (Image credit: NASA/MSFC History Office) Tiny fragments ofContinue Reading
Unlocking the secrets of the premium cabin requires looking beyond the champagne and silk eye masks to the complex algorithms that dictate every dollar spent.Business class pricing often appears as a chaotic black box to the average traveler, yet it operates on a series of rigid, data-driven principles designed toContinue Reading
United Airlines has spent years waiting for the Boeing 737 MAX 10, but the aircraft’s extraordinary certification delay has created a problem that is considerably stranger than simply having an order stuck in limbo. The airline has accumulated hundreds of custom lie-flat business class seats intended for the aircraft, andContinue Reading
Weston 16.0 released with major advances in HDR, color management, and Wayland protocol support. After about five months of development, the Weston project has officially released Weston 16.0, the reference Wayland compositor. This version brings important improvements that will help desktop environments like GNOME, KDE, and Enlightenment achieve better andContinue Reading
Copper price reached a record $14,533 on the LME as tariff uncertainty and falling mine output tightened available supply. US stockpiling and strong demand from power grids, data centers and electric vehicles added pressure across the global copper market…Continue Reading
Is the charging station safe and fully functional? Extrusion and co-extrusion can provide a cost-effective solution for producing long, continuous, or complex profiles, particularly when the tooling and production costs associated with processes such as molding may not be economically practical. These processes can also integrate multiple functions into aContinue Reading
Canonical has pulled the Ubuntu 24.04.5 desktop ISO because of a bug that crashes the installer when users select the extended install options. The fifth point release to 24.04 landed on 10 September, bringing refresh install media powered by the Linux 7.0 kernel. Some who downloaded it found they couldn’tContinue Reading