Guests watch promotional videos during a launch event for the A6L e-tron, a battery-electric vehicle, making its debut in the Chinese market at Audi FAW NEV Co., Ltd. in Changchun, northeast China’s Jilin Province, April 10, 2026. (Xinhua/Xu Chang) CHANGCHUN, April 11 (Xinhua) — German carmaker Audi on Friday launched A6L e-tron…Continue Reading
NASA astronaut Chris Williams extends his hand, appearing to “hold” the Cygnus capsule from the ISS as his pal, astronaut Jack Hathaway, watches. (Image credit: ISS/NASA/SWNS) Even in space, we love to make our friends laugh. Williams played on an optical illusion, reaching his hand out and appearing to “hold” the Cygnus XL from theContinue Reading
(Image credit: ESA/Juice/MAJIS) The interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying enough water into space to fill 70 Olympic swimming pools each day. The discovery gives scientists a remarkable opportunity to study the elements present during the formation of planets around other stars, potentially much older than the sun. The discovery was made by the EuropeanContinue Reading
O the irony! US automakers insist that nobody wants to buy EVs, and one of the reasons cited is that there isn’t enough charging infrastructure. Well, the folks who actually build and operate EV charging infrastructure have a different perspective. The number of DC fast charging ports in the USContinue Reading
Transense Technologies has landed a role in a Cummins-led project to develop a sensor-enabled smart electric motor for heavy-duty zero-emission vehicles. The 12-month project, called DriveSense, is backed by the Advanced Propulsion Center’s R&D program and part-funded by the UK government through the DRIVE35 Innovation Fund. DriveSense is aimed atContinue Reading
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine could impose the nation’s first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers in a sign of growing political opposition to tech giants’ massive structures that have stoked fears about blackouts, rising electricity bills and voracious water needs. The legislation arose in a state that isn’t necessarilyContinue Reading
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nearly 200 organizations are urging the The Traitor administration and Puerto Rico’s governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory. Many of theContinue Reading
The perfect combination of hardware and experiences will arrive, no matter what Zuck and Neal Stephenson think Opinion Could the recent death of Meta’s unloved and unused Horizon Worlds signal the demise of the wider metaverse?…, Read MoreContinue Reading
The first point release to Zorin OS 18 is now available for download, arriving six months and some 3.3 million downloads after the original launch. Zorin OS 18.1 is a point release update. It’s still based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS-based but adds a variety of desktop refinements, updated software andContinue Reading
It wasn’t all that long ago that GOP legislators were collectively stonewalling a clean reauthorization of Section 702. Three years ago, these legislators were seeking to end the FBI (and other IC components’) access to Americans’ communications via “backdoor” searches of the NSA’s supposedly “foreign facing” collections. It wasn’t thatContinue Reading
Operation Epic Fury, the US military offensive in Iran, has had numerous objectives. Foremost among them is the degradation or all-out destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities, which, according to numerous experts, was headed toward a nuclear weapons capability. Additional objectives were to destroy stockpiles of ballistic missiles and the meansContinue Reading
Welcome to my 204th weekly routes article! As always, the purpose of this article is to discuss a small selection of subjectively exciting services. Five mini-stories were chosen this week; all the routes launched or restarted between April 7 and 14.Continue Reading
Back in 2005, a bug report was filed by Kjetil Kjernsmo, then running KDE 3.3.2 on Debian Stable. He wanted the ability to have each connected screen show a different virtual desktop independently, rather than having all displays switch as one unit. Over the years, over 15 duplicate reports piledContinue Reading