Charged readers know Vingroup as the parent company of automaker Vinfast. Another of the Vietnamese conglomerate’s units is Green SM, which offers an electric car booking service and electric car and motorbike rental. The company currently operates some 20,000 cars and 60,000 motorbikes in Vietnam, Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines, IndiaContinue Reading
Tesla’s Supercharger network has often been called the gold standard of public EV charging. Now EVgo, a major public charging providers that operates some 1,200 fast charging stations in 47 states, will bring some of that Supercharger mojo to its own customers. EVgo Superchargers, owned and branded by EVgo, butContinue Reading
The community is hard at work on something new. You may have noticed that it’s been quiet here on Opensource.com lately. That’s because there’s a new project in the works, and while there aren’t many specific details to announce yet, there’s plenty to talk about. What better way to startContinue Reading
Over the past few years, virtual events have thrived. In-person events are back now, but it’s important to keep in mind that virtual events didn’t just come out of nowhere. Many of us were actually doing a lot of different online events even before they became popular. Many communities heldContinue Reading
Shake Shack says a technology error at a licensed airport location caused the pricing issue in a viral video., Shake Shack says a technology error at a licensed airport location caused the pricing issue in a viral video., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
“I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity’s relevance would rush to build that future,” Zuckerberg wrote., “I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity’s relevance would rush to buildContinue Reading
A refreshed Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) OS installer is available for download, powered by Linux kernel 7.0. The distro made the first Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO available in March, with an installer that boots Linux 6.17 by default. That image remains available to download alongside the newest one, whichContinue Reading
Meta on Monday rolled out a new 30-billion-parameter AI model that is optimized to run on a PC or Mac with a single GPU to offer always-on local agentic workflows rather than relying on the cloud. The company has dubbed it Muse Glimmer. However, its hardware demands, including a GPUContinue Reading
KDE Frameworks 6.28.0 Released with Android Calendar Plugin, New Barcode Support, and KIO Improvements. KDE has released Frameworks 6.28.0, the latest monthly update to its set of over 80 libraries that form the foundation of Plasma and most KDE applications. This release brings several useful new features along with theContinue Reading
The Rust project has implemented a formal LLM policy, which pushes people to use LLMs to analyze/think through code, not write it. With how it is written right now, the policy only covers the core code repo for Rust. It lays out many rules around what’s restricted, what’s allowed, andContinue Reading
Electric vehicles may still have a stigma attached, but the advancements in EV batteries are worth their weight in gasoline and more…Continue Reading
Clearmind Medicine is “a clinical-stage biotech company focused on the discovery and development of non-hallucinogenic, second-generation, neuroplastogen-derived therapeutics to solve widespread and underserved health problems, including alcohol use disorder.” Of course, it’s only natural that such a company would want to add wireless EV charging to its services. Clearmind saysContinue Reading
China has supported its EV industry with interest-free loans, and so, in the past, has the USA. Now the European Commission has opened a call for proposals worth up to €1.5 billion in interest-free loans for companies making EV battery cells in the European Economic Area. The money comes fromContinue Reading