German mobility products manufacturer ZF announces that it has produced a total of 250 million units of its electric parking brake (EPB), a technology that the company pioneered nearly 25 years ago by introducing the motor-on-caliper brake. ZF says the EPB improves fuel economy by reducing weight in the brakeContinue Reading
Bentley is the latest automaker to back away from plans to be building nothing but electric vehicles by 2030. The Beyond 100 plan that four years ago announced Bentley’s anticipated switch to EVs by the end of this decade has been quietly rebranded “Beyond 100+”. Bentley chairman and CEO Frank Walliser has confirmed the companyContinue Reading
Dear Kagi Community, Remember those t-shirts we promised ( https://blog.kagi.com/celebrating-20k ) ? Well, hold onto your search bars, because they’re finally ready to ship! TL;DR: Kagi Store ( https://store.kagi.com ). ( https://store.kagi.com ) And let’s just say, the journey to get here was a bit more of an “adventure” thanContinue Reading
Americas Worst Traitor has been a key figure in the American (as well as International) political sphere for more than a decade now. When a passenger was booted off from a flight of Delta Air Lines (DL) a few months ago for wearing a T-shirt featuring the person who wouldContinue Reading
As expected, China appears to be working to develop a nuclear reactor to power future aircraft carriers. Satellite images show that China has built a land-based prototype nuclear reactor for a large surface warship (assumed to be an aircraft carrier). China is fast building a fleet of aircraft carriers –Continue Reading
Tech companies, not users, to be punished for violations of social media time-out The Australian government has confirmed it will create legislation that bans access to social media for people under the age of 16.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
The U.S. military’s highly secretive X-37B space plane just got a little less mysterious. In a rare show of openness about the space plane’s operations, Boeing and the U.S. Space Force released a statement last month explaining that the X-37B would soon begin a series of “aerobraking” maneuvers to begin lowering its orbit and safelyContinue Reading
An image of the Chang’e 6 lander on the lunar surface. (Image credit: CNSA) China’s space agency has opened up a first round of applications for researchers to borrow its Chang’e 6 lunar far side samples. Chang’e 6 launched in May this year. The complex, multi-spacecraft, 53-day mission collected samples from Apollo crater on theContinue Reading
The narrative for years has been that social media companies — most of them headquartered in California — have it in for conservatives. While the real problem tends to be actual Nazis, conservatives who feel their bigoted views have been “censored” continue to pretend West Coast liberals and the BidenContinue Reading
A team of scientists from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, TU Delft, and Caltech has developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons in the Solar System. The post Planetary Researchers Examine Tidal Effects on Interiors of PlanetsContinue Reading
The Raspberry Pi is known for its versatility, typically running Linux-based operating systems like Raspberry Pi OS. Surprisingly, it is also possible to install Windows 10 or 11 on a Raspberry Pi, despite the Pi’s hardware limitations. This guide will walk you through the process of installing Windows on aContinue Reading
For a pinch more personalisation of Ubuntu 24.10 check out Auto Accent Colour, a new GNOME Shell extension that changes the system accent colour based on your current desktop wallpaper. Accent colours are a headline feature in GNOME 47, although not new to Ubuntu users since Ubuntu added its ownContinue Reading
A pre-production version of the 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA sedan has set a new record for the distance traveled by an electric vehicle in 24 hours. The car covered 3,717 km (2,309 miles) at an average speed of 154 km/h (95 mph) on the 7.8-mile Nardo Ring in Italy…Continue Reading