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Vintage Nissan Leaf-powered electric pickup packs ‘2X the power, 3X the torque’ of the gas burner

Nissan flaunted a modified vintage electric truck at SEMA 2022 fitted with a Nissan Leaf motor. The vintage-looking EV pickup was created by Tommy Pike Customs and delivers considerably more power than the original four-cylinder gas burner. Electric 1987 Nissan Sunny Leaf vintage pickup As one chapter closes, another opens. A vintage 1987 Nissan Sunny… Continue reading Vintage Nissan Leaf-powered electric pickup packs ‘2X the power, 3X the torque’ of the gas burner

Clean Technica: Norway’s BEVs Still Growing Well, Even While PHEVs Fall Away002356

Norway’s auto market saw 86.4% plugin electric vehicle share in October, down year on year, from 89.3%. Full electrics grew share by 7.5% YoY, but were outweighed by a drop in plugin hybrids. Overall auto volumes were 12,558 units, up 8.5% YoY, and above the pre-2020 seasonal norm of 11,635 units. October’s bestseller was the… Continue reading Clean Technica: Norway’s BEVs Still Growing Well, Even While PHEVs Fall Away002356

That “Research” About How Smartphones Are Causing Deformed Human Bodies Is SEO Spam, You Idiots

Image by TollFreeForwarding.com You know that “research” going around saying humans are going to evolve to have hunchbacks and claws because of the way we use our smartphones? Though our posture could certainly use some work, you’ll be glad to know that it’s just lazy spam intended to juice search engine results. Let’s back up.… Continue reading That “Research” About How Smartphones Are Causing Deformed Human Bodies Is SEO Spam, You Idiots

Jeff Bezos’ Housekeeper Says She Had to Climb Out the Window to Use the Bathroom

Image by Getty Images/Futurism Jeff Bezos’ former housekeeper is suing the Amazon founder for workplace discrimination that she says forced her to literally climb out out the window of his house to use the bathroom. In the suit, filed this week in a Washington state court, the former housekeeper claimed that she and Bezos’ other… Continue reading Jeff Bezos’ Housekeeper Says She Had to Climb Out the Window to Use the Bathroom

Hackers Just Took Down One of the World’s Most Advanced Telescopes

Why would they do that? Observatory Offline The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory in Chile has been hit with a cyberattack that has taken its website offline and forced it to suspend all observations, authorities there said. Even email services were limited in the aftermath, illustrating the broad impact of the hack. Nested high… Continue reading Hackers Just Took Down One of the World’s Most Advanced Telescopes

The Harms of Psychedelics Need to Be Put Into Context

In November 2021, when the psychedelics company Compass Pathways released the top-line results of its trial looking at psilocybin in patients with treatment-resistant depression, the stock of the company plunged almost 30 percent. The dive was reportedly prompted by the somewhat-middling results of the research—but also because of the scattering of serious adverse events that… Continue reading The Harms of Psychedelics Need to Be Put Into Context

Twitter warns employees that layoffs are happening Friday

Twitter will reportedly begin laying off workers on Friday, only a week after Elon Musk officially took control of the website. Around half of the company’s staff members will lose their jobs, according to internal messages seen by The New York Times and The Washington Post. That’s consistent with the previous reports that came out earlier… Continue reading Twitter warns employees that layoffs are happening Friday

Samsung’s next Odyssey Neo G9 will be the ‘first’ 8K ultrawide gaming monitor

Now that AMD has unveiled Radeon RX 7900 GPUs that can output 8K video at high refresh rates, gamers will need displays that can handle them — and Samsung is happy to oblige. The company has teased a new generation of its Odyssey Neo G9 that will supposedly be the first 8K ultrawide gaming monitor.… Continue reading Samsung’s next Odyssey Neo G9 will be the ‘first’ 8K ultrawide gaming monitor

AMD’s first RDNA 3 GPUs are the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT

Now that NVIDIA has kicked off the latest video card wave with the insanely powerful RTX 4090, all eyes are on AMD to see how it will respond. Today, the company announced the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, two confusingly named GPUs powered by its new RDNA 3 architecture. On stage during… Continue reading AMD’s first RDNA 3 GPUs are the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT