It’s not very efficient, and the synthetic gearshifts aren’t great, but I liked it? Sometimes you drive a car you just don’t gel with. The original Lexus RZ was such a case. It was Lexus’ first battery EV, and I was less than impressed when I drove it in…
RAM represented about 15 to 18 percent of PC costs last quarter, HP said. In an illustration of the severity of the current memory shortage, HP Inc. CFO Karen Parkhill said that RAM has gone from accounting for “roughly 15 percent to 18 percent” of HP PCs’ bill of…
Spare a thought for the intrepid graduate students who spent last summer in Africa collecting chimp urine. The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal Biology Letters.…
WBD’s board is still reviewing the offer. Paramount Skydance increased its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) from $30 per share to $31 per share, WBD said today. Amid a competing offer from Netflix for WBD’s movie studios and streaming businesses, WBD said that Paramount’s new bid “could reasonably…
Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident. On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released full-year data on how the country generated electricity in 2025. It’s a bit of a good news/bad news situation. The bad news is that overall demand rose appreciably, and a…
DJI lawsuit says company has been “severely harmed by the FCC’s ruling.” DJI, the most popular consumer drone maker, is suing over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s import ban against new, foreign-made drones, which has been in effect since December 23, 2025. On Tuesday, the Shenzhen-headquartered company filed a…
Apple is still working to get favorable tariff treatment from the Trump administration. Apple plans to start manufacturing the Mac mini in the United States later this year, the company announced today, as part of its $600 billion commitment to expand its domestic manufacturing operation. The Macs will be…
Stories and lesson learned from an impossibly large community modding project. Despite being regarded as one of the greatest role-playing games of all time, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind disappointed some fans upon its release in 2002 because it didn’t match the colossal scope of its predecessor, The Elder Scrolls…
Nissan imported some Qashqais from Europe so we could sample the hybrid system. While Toyota and Honda’s showrooms are littered with electrified offerings, Nissan hasn’t had much to counter. Globally, Nissan offers a series hybrid system called E-Power, but the company has been reluctant to offer it Stateside. If…
Investing heavily in battery EVs would be “financially irresponsible,” CEO said. For the last few years, Lamborghini has been in a quandary: What to do about an electric vehicle? Among the supercar brands, Lamborghini has always stood out as favoring drama over lap times. And while electric motors and…
