Tesla has announced a Supercharger price hike in California that is adding to the price increases throughout the last year. It’s still not the price of a tank of gas, but it is now starting to get expensive. One of the biggest advantages of electric vehicles remains that their cost of operations is much lower… Continue reading Tesla hikes Supercharger prices in California
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Google will help you find better results without tagging ‘Reddit’ onto every search
/ Google’s gotten the message that what we really want to read is a dozen threads about the best BIFL jeans. The company’s “been exploring new ways to make” the info you want easier to find.Illustration: The Verge Google may be trying to reinvent the way we search in the future and expanding access to… Continue reading Google will help you find better results without tagging ‘Reddit’ onto every search
Experts Say Leaking Russian Pipeline Likely Huge Environmental Disaster
If “these pipelines fail, the impact to the climate will be disastrous and could even be unprecedented.” Pipe Left It’s almost hard to wrap your head around just how bad the Nord Stream pipeline leaks in the Baltic Sea are — but scientists are trying hard to figure it out. Earlier today, Bloomberg reported that a… Continue reading Experts Say Leaking Russian Pipeline Likely Huge Environmental Disaster
Scientists Trick Mosquitoes Into Vaccinating Against Malaria by Biting
Image by Getty / Futurism It sounds vaguely like something from a horror movie, but it’s for a good cause — scientists are now using mosquitoes like tiny flying syringes in the hopes they can deliver life-saving malaria vaccines. Last week, NPR reported that clinical trial participants put their arms inside mesh containers filled with… Continue reading Scientists Trick Mosquitoes Into Vaccinating Against Malaria by Biting
Journal Retracts Study on Room Temperature Superconductors
“The process of going from the raw data to the published data was incredibly opaque.” Drama Conductor Back in 2020, the major scientific journal Nature published what was believed to be a groundbreaking study on room temperature semiconductors. But now, in an eyebrow-raising twist, the publication is retracting that same research — and you could say there’s… Continue reading Journal Retracts Study on Room Temperature Superconductors
Google Borrows From TikTok to Keep Gen Z Searching
In July, the Google executive who oversees the company’s lucrative and dominant search engine made a surprising admission. Younger users were diverting questions that would once have naturally flowed to the iconic search box to social networks, Prabhakar Raghavan said at a Forbes conference. Take the example of where to go for lunch: Google’s studies… Continue reading Google Borrows From TikTok to Keep Gen Z Searching
Everything Amazon Announced at Its Annual Hardware Event
Amazon announced a Prime Early Access Sale earlier this week (aka Prime Day 2.0), but today, the company took the wraps off of some new hardware it’s been cooking up over the past year. That includes new Echo speakers, as usual, but there are some surprises too, such as the Kindle Scribe—the first Kindle you… Continue reading Everything Amazon Announced at Its Annual Hardware Event
Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’
That project is now personified by today’s announcement of Halo Rise, the $140 “no-contact bedside sleep tracker, smart alarm and wake-up light” that picks up signals from your bedroom that even the partner sleeping beside you won’t notice. (To get the best use of that data to improve sleep, users must subscribe to the premium… Continue reading Amazon Wants to Cocoon You With ‘Ambient Intelligence’
Ubisoft once again delays ‘Skull and Bones,’ a game which will surely come out eventually
Ubisoft has once again delayed its long, long-awaited pirate sim Skull and Bones. Last we heard, the game was scheduled to hit Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, Steam, Epic Games Store, Google Stadia, Amazon Luna and Ubisoft Connect on November 8th . That’s no longer the case, as the publisher has pushed back… Continue reading Ubisoft once again delays ‘Skull and Bones,’ a game which will surely come out eventually
Google is making it easier to find search results from Reddit and other forums
Google is making it easier to find search results from Reddit and other forum sites. The search engine is adding a new module that will surface discussions happening on forums across the web for queries that may benefit from crowd-sourced answers. The “discussions and forums” module will surface relevant posts from sites like Reddit and… Continue reading Google is making it easier to find search results from Reddit and other forums