HEVO, a New York-based Tier 1 supplier of wireless charging hardware and software, will work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and BMW in a technology evaluation program focused on advancing next-generation wireless charging technology. HEVO will contribute wireless charging expertise, engineering support and circular coil topologies to assist BMW’sContinue Reading
Microchip Technology has introduced the PAC1761 and PAC1861 families of digital power monitors for 48 V power architectures. Besides reading instantaneous voltage and current, the devices accumulate power measurements over time, which Microchip says lets a system react to its energy use as it happens. The company lists automotive, AI/dataContinue Reading
NIO Inc., a key player in the smart electric vehicle market, has finalized strategic agreements with Zhejiang Geely Holding Group…Continue Reading
More Snapdragon X1 and X2 laptops will be able to run Ubuntu 26.10, and a new concept image released to help test them. Canonical’s Tobias Heider says the new preview ISO is built on the Ubuntu 26.10 Beta and will help to find bugs in the upcoming release earlier. HeContinue Reading
OpenAI unveiled its long-rumored productivity software suite Tuesday with the launch of Pages, a collaborative document editor for ChatGPT. A slides app is also on the way, the company announced at its DevDay event. The Pages app is accessed via a new Space tab, which OpenAI describes as a “newContinue Reading
Business class seat width varies more across airlines than most passengers realize. The difference between the narrowest and widest seats on this list is nearly 18 inches (46 cm), a gap large enough to reflect two fundamentally different approaches to what a business class cabin should prioritize.Continue Reading
Going on any flight lasting nearly 12 hours is almost always a long international journey. The key word is almost, because there is actually a flight that is just as long but does not land in a different nation. Upon touching down at Roland Garros Airport (RUN) in Saint-Denis deContinue Reading
Welcome to Local AI Weekly #4. “Local AI” keeps meaning different things these days. Sometimes the model runs on your computer. Sometimes only the app does, while the model and your chat still run elsewhere. There are lots of such “local AI” tools that are not really local. Before youContinue Reading
Announced via a two-part series of blogs, Microsoft has moved WSL containers (WSLC) out of public preview and into general availability. Let’s take a look at what it offers. The new release comes with wslc.exe, a dedicated command-line tool for Linux container workflows on Windows. It ships with a built-inContinue Reading
The White House posted the same pledge on the social platform X Wednesday morning, which also contained the typo in The Traitor’s title., The White House posted the same pledge on the social platform X Wednesday morning, which also contained the typo in The Traitor’s title., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans. The episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and raised questions over how the fast-growing technology can be developed safely asContinue Reading
Blanc is a new open-source browser that replaces the traditional, always-visible tab strip and address toolbar with a minimal ‘island’. The pill floats at top the of the browser window (not over the web page, which feels a missed trick) so that the site address and site security info isContinue Reading
US President Traitor 47 has ordered the federal government to call artificial intelligence “Super Intelligence,” while keeping the technology’s legal definition unchanged and relying on industry to set the rules for its use. In an executive order, the White House administration said modern systems “far exceed what was envisioned whenContinue Reading