3I/ATLAS Appears to Be Erupting in Ice Volcanos

Getty Images Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reached its perihelion, or its closest point to the Sun, earlier this year, shedding copious amounts of ice and dust in the process. The material has formed enormous jets that reach out like a tail behind the visitor, which is widely believed to be a comet — and even… Continue reading 3I/ATLAS Appears to Be Erupting in Ice Volcanos

Amazon Quietly Pulls Disastrous AI Dubs For Popular Anime After Outcry

If you watched the English-dubbed version of one of several popular anime on Amazon Prime Video lately, like “Banana Fish,” and “No Game, No Life,” you may have noticed something strange. The voices were generic, unexpressive, and at times robotic, completely disconnected from the action unfolding on screen. Some lines even sounded a little glitchy.… Continue reading Amazon Quietly Pulls Disastrous AI Dubs For Popular Anime After Outcry

Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing

A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly 4,000 miles away. The missile didn’t even make it 4,000 feet. Russia’s military has been silent on the accident, but the missile’s crash… Continue reading Russia Wants This Mega Missile to Intimidate the West, but It Keeps Crashing

HBO Max’s ‘Mad Men’ Vomit Scene Proves ‘Remastered’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Better’

But the problem goes beyond a change of aspect ratio. Remastering shows that were originally shot with more primitive technology sometimes goes horribly awry, like an I Love Lucy clip that went viral last year showing a pair of once-blurry background actors brought into so much focus that they now looked like surreal Picasso sketches.… Continue reading HBO Max’s ‘Mad Men’ Vomit Scene Proves ‘Remastered’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Better’

Renault 5 and 4 among four EVs eligible for £3750 discount

Four more EVs have become eligible for the government’s £3750 Electric Car Grant (ECG), doubling the number of models in the top band. Those newly included are the Renault 4, Alpine A290, Mini Countryman and 52kWh variant of the Renault 5. Including the grant, the Renault 4 now costs from £23,455, the Renault 5 £23,945, the Countryman £25,350… Continue reading Renault 5 and 4 among four EVs eligible for £3750 discount

Amazon wants to demolish your tech debt like it did this AWS server – here’s the plan

Eugene Mymrin/Moment via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Amazon unveils agentic AI to tackle massive legacy tech debt. Transform modernizes Windows stacks and slashes costly licensing. New AI agents migrate code at speeds humans can’t match. Well… that happened. PR folks the world over can take… Continue reading Amazon wants to demolish your tech debt like it did this AWS server – here’s the plan

Honda Prologue sales drop 86% in November even with deep discounts

The Honda Prologue was a top-selling EV, thanks in part to discounts that climbed over $20,000 at times. But after losing the $7,500 tax credit, sales of the electric SUV fell 86% in November. Honda Prologue sales fall in November despite discounts After launching the Prologue last March, the electric SUV quickly became one of… Continue reading Honda Prologue sales drop 86% in November even with deep discounts

Tesla is gearing to sell its electric semi truck, poaches key sales executives from rivals

Tesla is quietly but significantly expanding its Tesla Semi sales team, bringing on two seasoned veterans from the electric trucking industry as the company prepares for volume production at Gigafactory Nevada. Tesla Semi is arguably the company’s most delayed vehicle program ever, and we recently reported that production was again delayed into 2026. However, it… Continue reading Tesla is gearing to sell its electric semi truck, poaches key sales executives from rivals

Tesla hints at new camera upgrade, casting more doubt on Full Self-Driving promises

Tesla appears to be preparing to introduce yet another new camera sensor to its hardware suite, according to code found in the automaker’s latest firmware. While hardware improvements are generally good news, this latest discovery adds to the mounting evidence that Tesla is continuously moving the goalposts for self-driving, potentially leaving millions of owners with… Continue reading Tesla hints at new camera upgrade, casting more doubt on Full Self-Driving promises