Following the release of the new 14-inch M6 MacBook Pro earlier this week, Apple has bought the “touch experience” to its professional laptop series, introducing a $2,899 (and up) MacBook Pro you can use with touch. It’s very fast, very thin, very light, with an impressive PROLED XDR display andContinue Reading
The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (IAF) and its partners in the GaN4EmoBiL research project have developed a gallium nitride (GaN) power electronics module for 800 V-class bidirectional DC charging systems. It powers an off-board charger demonstrator. Fraunhofer IAF, the University of Stuttgart, Bosch and Ambibox jointly developedContinue Reading
Voltix, a VINCI Concessions subsidiary, has opened a public charging hub for electric heavy-duty vehicles in Vierzon, France. Located at the intersection of the A20, A71 and A85 motorways, the site serves a major road freight corridor. The Vierzon site, Voltix’s first heavy-duty EV charging hub in France, uses Ekoenergetyka’sContinue Reading
Mercedes has poked fun at Kimi Antonelli’s awkward reversing mishap in Austin, sharing in-car footage of the moment on its TikTok account with the caption, “Championship leader BTW.”The short clip shows the 20-year-old at the wheel of a Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé. As he backed up the electric vehicle…Continue Reading
Yes, this is about two people talking. But as they talk, they both grow and find new things to like about themselves and each other…Read MoreContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog is refusing a bipartisan request to investigate recent disruptions to Starlink and Starshield satellite internet service to Ukraine, raising concerns among lawmakers that the military and even its independent inspector general are reluctant to confront the influence that SpaceX chief Elon Musk has overContinue Reading
Google parent company Alphabet Inc. came up short of Wall Street expectations despite strong revenue growth in its third-quarter results, which sent its stock falling in after-hours trading Wednesday. The Mountain View, California-based company said its net income was $26.17 billion in the July-September period. That’s down from $34.98 billionContinue Reading
A major new release of Ghostty, the open-source terminal emulator, is out. Ghostty 1.4.0 brings a varied set of changes after seven months of development. There are welcome performance optimisations on Linux and macOS, a more capable SSH implementation and an easier way to rearrange tab splits – dragging them!Continue Reading
Right now you can buy a new laptop powered by an Nvidia processor. That would have been a wild statement a few years ago. But what’s even wilder is that these RTX Spark laptops aren’t for PC gamers, and PC gamers shouldn’t buy them. That’s not to say they’re bad…Continue Reading
Switches based on the wide band-gap semiconductors SiC (silicon carbide) and GaN (gallium nitride) have been gaining market share on their conventional silicon counterparts over the last decade or so because they deliver lower total losses at higher switching frequencies and power levels, all at an increasingly competitive price. SiCContinue Reading
EV Realty sites its heavy-duty EV charging hubs where the fleet customers are. Heavy-duty EVs have different charging requirements than passenger EVs. As electric truck guru Rustam Kocher explains in our recent interview, a charging hub purpose-built for heavy-duty EVs differs from a consumer charging hub in several ways. ButContinue Reading
Anna Gomez is the only Democrat at the current FCC because Republicans simply refuse to seat any new ones (or even formally renew her term, which technically was supposed to end over the summer). And while Gomez may not have much voting authority, she’s done a good job criticizing theContinue Reading
Ubuntu is planning a new linux-firmware-hwe package, in an effort to reduce the risk of firmware updates for newer kernels causing problems for users running older ones. On Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, you can stick with the standard (GA) kernel it was released with for the duration of itsContinue Reading