Toyota"s Tesla-fighting future factory is EV-making tour de force
Toyota is plotting a massive manufacturing overhaul for the electric vehicle era to make its next-gen EVs low cost, lightweight and high tech......»»
Will price, charging headaches send EV owners back to the ICE age?
The findings from a new McKinsey & Co. study suggest a big complication lays ahead on the path toward an electrified future. Nearly half of EV owners are likely to return to internal combustion engine vehicles......»»
Video games are changing, and Summer Game Fest just teased what’s next
Summer Game Fest was full of exciting world premieres, but its most important reveal was teasing the future of video games......»»
Jeep Wagoneer S vs Tesla Model Y: Can Jeep take out the most popular EV?
Jeep has taken the wraps off of the Wagoneer S, its first major attempt at an electric vehicle. But how does the car compare with the Tesla Model Y?.....»»
Honor 200 series is launching in Europe
Honor has announced that its latest Honor 200 series will be making its debut in Europe following a launch in China. The post Honor 200 series is launching in Europe appeared first on Phandroid. Honor had previously announced its new Honor.....»»
Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for diverting carmaker’s resources to xAI
Lawsuit: Musk's xAI poached Tesla employees, Nvidia GPUs, and data. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images) A group of Tesla investors yesterday sued Elon Musk, the company, and its board members, alleging that Tesl.....»»
Tesla CEO Elon Musk received 77% shareholder approval for $56 billion payout
"We think the news takes a potentially disastrous scenario off the table, in which Musk could have potentially left Tesla and opted to dedicate more time to his other (non-public) companies," CFRA Research said......»»
Research says high energy fire influences prescribed burn effectiveness
Fighting woody plant encroachment with prescribed burns may be more effective than land managers previously thought......»»
Column: Dump Akio Toyoda? 6 reasons Toyota shareholders should keep their chairman
Ahead of Toyota's general shareholder meeting June 18, two prominent proxy groups recommend voting against the board reappointment of Akio Toyoda, who drove his family's namesake carmaker to new heights and record profits over a 14-year run at the he.....»»
Chimpanzees understand that they are sometimes relying on luck when making guesses, research suggests
Psychologists Benjamin Jones and Josep Call at the University of St Andrews, in the U.K., have found via behavioral experiments that chimpanzees know that they rely on luck when making guesses about certain things. Their paper is published in the jou.....»»
Remember they said Miami would be under water? A preview of the future
It's like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to hurricanes, there will be flooding and they may incur thousands of dollars to fix their homes post storm......»»
Use This Tip to Instantly Speed Up PS5 Downloads
If your PS5 downloads are frustratingly slow while using a wired connection, this tip should come in handy. Earlier this month, while trying to download a new game on our PlayStation 5, we noticed the download wasn’t making a whole lot of progr.....»»
Tesla shareholders re-approve Elon Musk’s $44.9 billion pay package
Court battle over pay plan will continue despite Musk winning shareholder vote. Enlarge / Elon Musk. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Tesla shareholders have re-approved CEO Elon Musk's $44.9 billion pay package, the c.....»»
Arc wants to be a ‘browser that can browse for you’
The team behind the Arc browser just announced a new AI feature that points to an interesting future......»»
Elon Musk says ‘thousands’ of humanoid robots could be working at Tesla in 2025
Tesla chief Elon Musk has shared new footage of the company’s humanoid Optimus robot, along with an update on how development of the robot is progressing......»»
Tesla Model Y was top-selling vehicle worldwide in 2023, based on registrations; China tops U.S. for first time
Combined sales of Chinese manufacturers exceeded those of American manufacturers for the first time in 2023, JATO Dynamics said, citing registration data......»»
Akio Toyoda flips rally car during testing
The Toyota chairman opened an R&D Center in Japan by showing a car that he crashed as a symbol of the philosophy he wants employees to use......»»
Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing
Software updates strike again, leaving interpolated frames in unwanted places. Enlarge / Motion smoothing was making images uncanny and weird long before AI got here. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Roku) Roku TV.....»»
Musk says he’s winning Tesla shareholder vote on pay plan by “wide margin”
Court battle over pay plan will continue even if Musk wins shareholder vote. Enlarge / Elon Musk. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Elon Musk said last night that Tesla shareholders provided enough votes to re-approve h.....»»
Q&A: Finding varieties of corn that are adapted to future climates
Corn is one of the planet's most important crops. It not only provides sweet kernels to flavor many dishes, but it's also used in oils, as a sweetener syrup, and as a feed crop for livestock. Corn has been bred to maximize its yield on farms around t.....»»
Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos
When it comes to the ocean's response to global warming, we're not in entirely uncharted waters. A UC Riverside study shows that episodes of extreme heat in Earth's past caused the exchange of waters from the surface to the deep ocean to decline......»»