The $100 Fitbit Air is available for preorder today. Wearables have really come full circle. The early Fitbits didn’t have screens, but the move to smartwatches put a screen on everyone’s wrist. Now, devices like Whoop and Hume are designed as data trackers first and foremost without so much…
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair? Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects:…
Nordschleife-specialist Manthey has developed an upgrade package for the Porsche EV. Porsche is known for building cars that really are extremely good right out of the box. Yes, they tend to be more expensive than the other German luxury car brands, particularly once the option list comes out. But…
Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is set to become SpaceX’s busiest launch site—for now. It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching as often as it used to. The decline is…
TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing. Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC is raking in record profits during the AI boom—but it is also racing to help Taiwan develop wind power and other energy alternatives to fossil fuels amid a global energy crisis. The chipmaker has signed a…
Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations. Google’s AI-focused DeepMind division has taken a minority stake in the developer of popular sci-fi simulation EVE Online, saying it will use the game to study “intelligence in complex, dynamic, player-driven systems.” The research partnership…
NASA is serious about taking more shots on goal, but some of them need to start landing. NASA’s goal of reaching the Moon’s surface as many as 21 times over the next two and a half years will require an overhaul of the agency’s approach to buying lunar landers…
A celebration of the tweaks and customizations that make life easier at the CLI. I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid whipping…
Without giving much away, CEO RJ Scaringe teased the idea of an R2 pickup and an R2X. We don’t have too much longer to wait for Rivian’s hotly anticipated R2 electric SUV. After cutting its teeth with the ground-breaking R1T electric pickup truck, plus the three-row SUV version (the…
Daemon Tools users: It’s time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat. Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates from the servers of its developer, researchers said Tuesday. Kaspersky, the security firm reporting…
