Why has Orange EV thrived while other commercial EV startups dropped like fruit flies? The company started by identifying an application that was ideal for EVs—terminal trucks, aka yard dogs—and patiently executed through years of pilots. Today the company has some 2,000 electric trucks in service, and is regularly announcingContinue Reading
Denver Public Schools recently added 25 Blue Bird Vision electric school buses to its fleet, bringing its total number of e-buses to 28. The district chose Kempower to provide DC fast charging infrastructure at its Hilltop Bus Terminal. The project was led by electrical solutions provider Winn-Marion. The terminal featuresContinue Reading
Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type in a collapsible icon, e.g. images in one stack, PDFs in another and so on. Folders don’t get grouped, and if there is onlyContinue Reading
Earlier this year, Meta, one of the industry’s loudest AI advocates, was ready to slash up to 60% of the members of some teams and replace them with AI, as part of what it called Project OT (Organization Transformation), an initiative to make Meta “AI native.” But it backed offContinue Reading
Have you heard the buzz? Good vibrations are officially here on Android — at least, on Google’s latest homemade Pixel gizmos. One of the less prominent but more useful additions on the Pixel 11 series is a quietly added option buried deep within the devices’ settings to select from aContinue Reading
Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest resurgence of measles cases in something like three decades. Three people died, including two children, all unvaccinated. Kennedy mostly ignoredContinue Reading
IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades: a processor whose cores can natively execute both IBM’s own instruction set and Arm’s — switching between the two in nanoseconds.The chip, which will power the next generationContinue Reading
NYC Russ/Shutterstock The U.S. smartphone industry is one of the hardest to break into. Apple and Samsung have dominated the space for the longest time, and any brand that does make it in has to compete for the scraps they leave. It seemed completely unprecedented for a Chinese startup focusing on enthusiasts to ever haveContinue Reading
A rendering of the effect of Reflect Orbital’s space mirrors on the night sky in a very dark location. This image depicts a beam of light from one of the company’s mirrors from roughly 3 miles (5 kilometers) away. (Image credit: Gaspar Bakos/Princeton University) Each of the sun-reflecting mirrors proposed by U.S.-based startup Reflect OrbitalContinue Reading
Rockstar apologized to fans just one day before it’s set to give Netflix subscribers an extended look at GTA 6., Rockstar apologized to fans just one day before it’s set to give Netflix subscribers an extended look at GTA 6., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Court documents say the hacking platforms were used by malicious actors connected to China., Court documents say the hacking platforms were used by malicious actors connected to China., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Kali Linux 2026.1 released with fresh 2026 theme and nostalgic BackTrack Mode. Kali Linux 2026.1 is now available. This first release of the year brings a stunning new visual theme, a fun nod to the project’s roots with BackTrack mode, eight exciting new tools, and the usual solid package updates.Continue Reading
The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 26.8, a major new version of the open-source office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Among the changes is a new Paragraph Composer. This improves the way Writer handles justified text. In many word processors, justified text is stretched to create straight edge on both sidesContinue Reading