Thursday’s top tech news: another Cybertruck delay

  • Jan 26, 2023, 9:02 PM UTCUmar Shakir

    Ford is working with dealerships to enhance mobile service options for more customers — giving them access to free vehicle pickup and delivery as well as providing on-site repairs that competing companies like Tesla offer.

  • Jan 26, 2023, 8:15 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins

    The proposed rule would likely affect an estimated 100,000 vehicles that operate in the five boroughs. And Uber and Lyft have both set the goal of transitioning to an all-electric fleet by 2030.

  • Jan 26, 2023, 6:30 PM UTCAndrew J. Hawkins

    The Activesphere is an autonomous electric vehicle with rugged features designed for off-roading and outdoor lovers. It’s the fourth in a series of concepts that Audi says will guide its design process in the future.

  • Jan 26, 2023, 6:02 PM UTCJames Vincent

    It’s the latest media organization to turn to automated methods to process content. But the company says its newsroom will stay focused on human work.

  • Jan 26, 2023, 5:42 PM UTCJay Peters

    On the web, you might see a different font. It’s unclear why Twitter changed it, but the new font has some tweaks that might make it easier to spot impersonators.

  • Jan 26, 2023, 5:00 PM UTCDan Seifert

    Noise-canceling wireless earbuds aren’t just great for listening to music or podcasts — they are also great for turning down the volume of the world around you.

  • Jan 26, 2023, 4:58 PM UTCAllison Johnson

    If it’s not a meteorite, it’s a meteor wrong.

    Antarctica is a great place to find meteorites because they stand out against the ice so well.

    In just four minutes, cosmochemist Maria Valdes tells NPR the delightful story of finding a rare cantaloupe-sized meteorite on the frozen continent, and how to spot the difference between actual space rock and — this is the scientific term — a meteor wrong.

  • Jan 26, 2023, 3:46 PM UTCJennifer Pattison Tuohy

    Blink’s first wired outdoor camera is now available.

    The smart home camera company known for its battery tech is launching its first hardwired security camera today.

    Announced last September, the $99.99 Blink Wired Floodlight Camera features person detection with local processing, plus local storage (with its Sync Module 2). This is the first camera from Blink — which is owned by Amazon — to offer local processing powered by Amazon’s AZ2 silicon chip.

    The Blink’s new wired floodlight camera is its first with local video processing.

    The Blink’s new wired floodlight camera is its first with local video processing.
    The Blink’s new wired floodlight camera is its first with local video processing.
    Image: Blink

  • Jan 26, 2023, 3:32 PM UTCRichard Lawler

    Green light.

    Besides Elon Musk, other businesses also have quarterly reports. Today that list includes Intel later this afternoon, and Comcast, which said it shed 440,000 TV subscribers in three months but added 365,000 customers to Xfinity Mobile.

    For now, we’re looking at keyboards and controllers, as Sony’s new $199.99 DualSense Edge gamepad is available, but only directly from Sony. Check out our review to see if it’s worth the high price.

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    Jan 26, 2023, 12:31 PM UTCJames Vincent

    The ‘world’s first robot lawyer’ doesn’t stand up to a fair trial.

    DoNotPay has aggressively marketed itself as the “world’s first robot lawyer” — an easy way to automate small claims and lawsuits using AI. But this fantastic test of the service is mostly damning. As author Kathryn Tewson writes:

    “There is literally nothing AI about this. This is a straight-up plug-and-chug document wizard, and it is not well done at all.”

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