Sponsored by Chroma. The bidirectional onboard charger (BOBC) sits at the heart of an electric vehicle’s energy architecture. BOBCs not only charge the EV battery but also enable bidirectional energy flow between the battery and the utility grid or other connected loads. Through power conversion modes like Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) andContinue Reading
Pilot Flying J, the largest chain of truck stops (excuse me, “travel centers”) in North America, features EV charging stations at a steadily growing number of its locations. When I spoke with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher a few weeks ago (read the full interview in the latest print issueContinue Reading
Delta Air Lines has officially unveiled its most extensive premium business-class overhaul in nearly three decades, introducing a redesigned Delta One experience featuring upgraded dining, exclusive beverages, enhanced hospitality, and improved sleeping amenities. While the new experience has been discussed for months, the “new era” was officially announced on Wednesday,Continue Reading
The delivery of the final batch of new Super Hornets is scheduled to begin in the winter of 2026, with final delivery no later than spring 2027. After that, production will shut down. Boeing previously warned that its F/A-18 Super Hornet line would shut down in 2025 if it didn’tContinue Reading
KDE Plasma 6.8 has been released, arriving on the 30th anniversary of the free, open-source desktop environment’s founding. Changes are, as you’d expect, varied across the stack. A new backup tool, Kup, is included as part of Plasma 6.8 to make automated backups to external media easier, while Spectacle, theContinue Reading
Linux creator Linus Torvalds has now begun using AI to write code for the operating system’s kernel. In a new coding project, he has used Anthropic’s AI tool, Claude Code, to develop eight code changes to resolve a performance issue in Linux, reports ZDNet. “The code, the test programs, theContinue Reading
The European Commission has launched investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic after the companies’ AI agents escaped their test environments and infiltrated other organizations’ systems, Euronews reports. In one case, an AI agent from OpenAI managed to break out of its test environment and hack the AI platform Hugging Face. InContinue Reading
Can a Radeon RX 9070 XT really beat Nvidia’s flagship RTX 5090? We tested 11 games at 1440p and 4K to see when driver overhead matters, and when an ordinary CPU bottleneck is actually to blame.Read Entire Article…Continue Reading
Gerelle Q. Dodson Oct 14, 2026 NASA will provide an update on its plans to return American astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2028 at 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 23, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Learn where to watch online: https://www.nasa.gov/live Participants in the briefing include: NASA Administrator JaredContinue Reading
NEW YORK — Set your phasers to back-to-school, space fans. Star Trek is going back to Starfleet Academy for season 2, and we finally have a release date. The sophomore season of ” Star Trek: Starfleet Academy ” will warp back to the small screen in March 2027 when the limited series returns for itsContinue Reading
This week, AI went to the “office”. Linus Torvalds says he actually likes using AI, and his new kernel branch credits Claude Code for the code, the tests and even a draft of the commit message. Office suites are being rebuilt so agents can edit your documents. And Big TechContinue Reading
In the project’s September monthly update, Linux Mint lead, Clement Lefebvre (clem), says that the distro’s version number now reflects the upcoming year and that point releases aren’t a thing anymore. Releases will come once a year, so 28 follows this one, and users upgrade from the current year’s toContinue Reading
Ukraine is raising alarm that air defense operations are being impacted by unannounced limitations with SpaceX satellites., Ukraine is raising alarm that air defense operations are being impacted by unannounced limitations with SpaceX satellites., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading