June 24, 2020 Tesla’s reportedly shipped early Model S cars with leaky battery packs Tesla’s earliest Model S electric sedans shipped with a flawed battery back design that was prone to coolant leaks which could lead to fires,…
June 24, 2020 The Pokémon Go grandpa’s bike evolves to hold 64 smartphones Image: 林嘉雯 / Facebook Chen San-yuan, the Taiwanese “Pokémon Go grandpa,” has evolved his bike into a new form: a peacock-esque contraption with 64…
June 24, 2020 Tesla trails the pack in its first JD Power car quality study Tesla has appeared in a JD Power Initial Quality Study for the first time, and it doesn’t look good for the electric car maker…
June 24, 2020 Google will auto-delete new users’ web data after 18 months Google offers a lot of services, and therefore collects a lot of personal data. Whether it’s browsing history on Chrome, viewing history on YouTube…
June 24, 2020 NHTSA investigates Tesla Model S touchscreen failures The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating older models of the Tesla Model S over complaints that the electric vehicle’s touchscreen —…
June 24, 2020 Social media’s recent embrace of #BlackLivesMatter was a long time coming Since the murder of George Floyd on May 25th, the country has seemingly undergone a collective awakening. Not only have protests erupted across the…
June 24, 2020 Republican Senate bill seeks an end to ‘warrant-proof’ encryption A trio of Republican senators have submitted a bill that seeks to bring an end to “warrant-proof” encryption. If it passes into law as…
June 24, 2020 NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs now support DirectX 12 Ultimate NVIDIA has released a new driver update that adds support for Microsoft's DirectX 12 Ultimate framework. Announced earlier this year, the collection of developer APIs unifies support…
June 24, 2020 The next ‘Don’t Starve’ game is a mobile title from Tencent At long last, there’s a new Don’t Starve game… although it might not entirely be what you were expecting. Shengqu Games and Tencent (no,…
June 24, 2020 Astronomers are puzzled by a mysterious dead star On August 14th, 2019, the International LIGO-Virgo Collaboration — an array of antennae in the US and Italy — detected odd gravitational waves. The…