Wimbledon is a unique event in the British sports calendar. While fans of soccer, rugby and cricket follow their teams throughout the year, the country’s tennis obsession only lasts during the two-week tournament in London. In many cases, spectators don’t even know mo
You order your Tesla online, and then…. you wait. Even worse, the delivery date may be pushed back several times, leaving your only recourse to remonstrate angrily on Twitter. Buying a new car right now means waiting up to a year, sometime
Meta will no longer force you to login with a Facebook account when you use your VR headsets. Starting from August, Zuck’s introducing a new Meta account (which won’t be linked to Facebook) for both new and existing users. And if you’ve been logging into you
Before the pandemic, a typical commute may have involved choosing between walking, driving or taking public transit Ride-sharing apps have also allowed us to request rides in a shared car, on a bike or even using a scooter. Walking might inv
A team of researchers at Jilin Engineering Normal University in China recently published a paper indicating they’d built an AI model capable of recognizing human facial expressions. I’m going to save you some time here: they most certainly did not. Such a thing isn’t
Communicating with crypto fans requires specific skills and attributes. There’s an esoteric language to learn, new social norms to adopt, and a toxically-positive philosophy to embrace. But perhaps the most important credential of all is a Telegram acc
If you’ve been following Apple’s updates for iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura, you already know that the company is upping its security game. It’s replacing passwords with passkeys, and will even introduce Safety Check — an emergency feature that aims to
When you think of energy solutions, you might not imagine 100 tonnes of builders’ sand piled inside a huge silo. But one company has actually found that sand can be the secret sauce to energy storage, as it can store heat for months. How do
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Level 5 autonomous vehicles (AVs) will allow shipping companies to significantly decrease their costs and their liability as they will no longer need long-haul truck drivers. However, this also applies to smugglers. Trafficking of drugs, pe