Shared micromobility company Lime has reached an agreement to send batteries used in its scooters and e-bikes to Redwood Materials, which will extract and recycle critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The agreement announced Monday makes Redwood Materials the exclusive battery recycling partner for Lime’s shared scooters and e-bikes located in cities… Continue reading Lime’s scooter and ebike batteries will be recycled by Redwood Materials
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Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach
Car rental giant Hertz has begun notifying its customers of a data breach that included their personal information and driver’s licenses. The rental company, which also owns the Dollar and Thrifty brands, said in notices on its website that the breach relates to a cyberattack on one of its vendors between October 2024 and December… Continue reading Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach
Tesla insurance premiums are incresing at twice the market rate amid vandalism
Tesla insurance premiums are increasing at more than twice the rate of the rest of the US auto market due to higher repair costs and amid increased instances of vandalism on Tesla vehicles. Insurance on Tesla vehicles has always been fairly high, so much so that it encouraged Tesla to launch its own insurance product… Continue reading Tesla insurance premiums are incresing at twice the market rate amid vandalism
Tesla rolls out feature-packed software update: adaptive headlights, dashcam, and more
Tesla has launched its latest over-the-air software update called ‘Spring Update’. While the automaker regularly releases smaller updates, it sometimes bundles many features into the same update for a bigger release, like this one. It’s important to note that while it’s a significant update as a whole, many of these features are specific to certain… Continue reading Tesla rolls out feature-packed software update: adaptive headlights, dashcam, and more
Tesla finally found a use for the Cybertruck: carry around cars for advertising
Tesla has finally found a use case for its hard-to-sell Cybertruck: it’s now carrying around mobile billboards for the new Model Y. I once argued that ‘Tesla Cybertruck is a mistake turned marketing tool‘, but that was more than a year ago – before we knew it was a total commercial flop with sales reaching about… Continue reading Tesla finally found a use for the Cybertruck: carry around cars for advertising
Apple’s AI-Powered Siri Is Such a Disaster That Employees Have Given the Team Developing It a Rude Nickname
Apple has floundered in its efforts to bring a convincing AI product to the table — so much so that it’s become the subject of derision even among its own employees, The Information reports. More specifically, it’s the AI and machine-learning group that’s getting the lion’s share of mockery. Known as AI/ML for short, its… Continue reading Apple’s AI-Powered Siri Is Such a Disaster That Employees Have Given the Team Developing It a Rude Nickname
Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It
Image by Getty / Futurism As wildly overinvolved parents shell out to give their kids growth hormones to make them taller, some research suggests that putting them on drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have the opposite effect. As the New York Times reports, the scientists behind the Multimodal Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity… Continue reading Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It
Chat Relentlessly Mocks Katy Perry’s “Space Trip”
Tens of thousands of people tuned in to watch a crew of six women, including pop star Katy Perry, and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend Lauren Sánchez, launch to the outer reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere. The 11-minute mission — which the media breathlessly and erroneously described as the “first all-female space flight” —… Continue reading Chat Relentlessly Mocks Katy Perry’s “Space Trip”
OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding
OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as it ramps up efforts to fend off increasingly stiff competition from companies like Google and Anthropic. The models are available to developers through OpenAI’s application programming interface (API). OpenAI is releasing three sizes of models:… Continue reading OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding
The Subjective Charms of Objective-C
After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since boyhood, the 17th-century polymath had dreamed of creating what he called a characteristica universalis—a language that perfectly represented all scientific truths and would render making new discoveries… Continue reading The Subjective Charms of Objective-C