Almost half of Australians want a hybrid or EV for their next car – study
2026-07-07
A growing number of Australians are looking to make the switch to a hybrid or electric vehicle, a new study has found…Continue Reading
The Ryanair Paradox: Passengers Say They Hate The Airline, But Keep Booking It Anyway
2026-07-07
Ryanair is the epitome of a low-cost airline: cheap fares and the no-frills experience that goes with them. Indeed, the carrier’s offering centers around the idea that travel does not have to break the bank if passengers are willing to forgo almost any element of comfort. But this focus onContinue Reading
Why The B-52’s New Engines Will Make It More Powerful Than Jets Built 40 Years After It
2026-07-07
When the United States Air Force replaces the Boeing B-52’s eight engines under the Commercial Engine Replacement Program, the resulting aircraft, the B-52J, will have 30% better fuel efficiency, a meaningfully extended unrefueled range, and a maintenance burden so reduced that it will cost significantly less per flight hour toContinue Reading
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia Anime’s New Promo Video Unveils Queen Bee Ending Song
2026-07-07
Queen Bee performs “Hoshi” ending song for July 4 anime…Read MoreContinue Reading
This E-Paper PDA Wants You to Ditch Your Smartphone for a Keyboard and Two Tiny Screens
2026-07-07
Every few months (or years, depending upon how old you are), there is a new “anti-smartphone” device that comes with a physical keyboard and a tiny screen and focuses on doing one thing well. Freewrite did it for writers. PicoCalc did it for tinkerers. Now Talisman Design, an independent hardwareContinue Reading
You Can Now Craft E-Ink Faceplates for the Steam Machine
2026-07-07
The Steam Machine’s swappable front panel just got a very useful upgrade that Valve has put out for free under an MIT License. Called the Inkterface, the e-ink faceplate replaces the stock panel with a small Bluetooth-connected display. NaKyle Wright is the person behind this project, who has published allContinue Reading
Microsoft eliminates thousands of jobs amid middling Xbox sales
2026-07-07
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote the company has become too bloated and its investments were losing money., Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote the company has become too bloated and its investments were losing money., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Nissan and Easelink develop automated EV charging system to improve V2G utilization
2026-07-06
Austria-based Easelink has developed a hands-free, automated conductive charging system. Engineers at Nissan Technical Centre Europe (NTCE) have been studying vehicle-to-grid technology for over a decade. Now the two organizations are working together on a UK-based research project that combines bidirectional AC charging with automated conductive charging technology. NTCE’s fieldContinue Reading
Farmblox’s security system protects EV charging infrastructure from copper theft
2026-07-06
EV charging station cable theft is an infuriating problem. By some accounts, repairing and recommissioning a vandalized charging station can cost as much as $8,000 per charger, not including lost revenue and customer frustration—all for $#%&@ thieves to fence a few dollars’ worth of copper. How to deal with thisContinue Reading
Price Drop: Visual Studio Professional 2026 is $35 with code JULY30
2026-07-06
TL;DR: Get Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $34.99 (reg. $499.99) with code JULY30. Offer ends July 5. If your code has to run on more than just macOS, Visual Studio Professional 2026 earns its keep. It’s built for teams juggling Windows, Linux, and containerized environments, and it’s on sale for $34.99 with code JULY30…Read MoreContinue Reading
After Suffering A Billion-Dollar Loss, Lotus Switches To Factory Sharing
2026-07-06
Facing a billion-dollar loss in 2024, a storied British sports-car brand is cutting nearly half its workforce. To stabilize, the manufacturer is repurposing its underutilized Hethel factory as a shared production space, partnering with Zenos Cars to assemble track-focused roadsters at the site. The manufacturer’s initial strategy centered on capturing the luxury electric vehicle market…Continue Reading
China’s Biren raises $892M to build GPUs that can take on Nvidia at home
2026-07-06
Nvidia can barely sell its best chips in China. A crop of local challengers is racing to fill the gap. One of them just raised nearly $900m to speed up. Shanghai Biren Technology is selling HK$7 billion (about $892.5m) of new shares to boost GPU production…Continue Reading
NASA just found a planet ‘hiding’ in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein
2026-07-06
An illustration of the newly discovered exoplanet Gaia23bra b. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system. The technique relies on a phenomenon introduced by Einstein in his 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity, called gravitational microlensing.Continue Reading