Owners of electric cars in Vermont recently got a letter from the Department of Motor Vehicles with some bad news. Starting Jan. 1 they would have to pay $178 a year to register their cars, twice as much as owners of vehicles with internal combustion engines. In imposing the higher fee, Vermont became the latest … Read more
Mysterious ribbons of grayish white have been spotted woven through the northern lights. New images reveal that these ghostly glows can appear tucked within or curled up beside red and green auroras. But the pale lights are not auroras themselves, researchers reported December 30 in Nature Communications. Instead, they may arise through a similar process … Read more
Chris Vallance Senior Technology Reporter Getty Images Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg As flames tore through large parts of Los Angeles this month, so did fake news. Social media posts touted wild conspiracies about the fire, with users sharing misleading videos and misidentifying innocent people as looters. It brought into sharp focus a question that has … Read more
With Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone SE launch inching ever closer, new alleged dummy models have emerged online that give us further clarification on some of the details of the device. Leaker Majin Bu shared these images on X (Twitter), along with a short video showing off the mockups, which are non-functional devices that case makers create … Read more
Genshin Impact remains one of the most popular mobile games in the world, but many gamers prefer playing on the PC client for better controls and visuals. The Steam Deck is the perfect device for this, since it’s also portable and has a built-in controller. However, Genshin Impact is not officially available on Steam, nor … Read more
After four years of U.S. progress on efforts to deal with climate change under Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s return to the White House is swiftly swinging the pendulum in the opposite direction. On his first day back, Trump declared a national energy emergency, directing agencies to use any emergency powers available to boost oil and … Read more
“We probably won’t fall through,” Tom Green said as he stepped out onto an expansive frozen lake that sits along his bucolic 150-acre farm in the hinterlands of Ontario, periodically stamping his foot to be sure. I followed his lead, bundled in a polar-rated Baffin snowsuit he’d wisely insisted I wear for this expedition. A … Read more
Apple is making an internal staffing change that it hopes will improve Siri and its artificial intelligence offerings, reports Bloomberg. Kim Vorrath, a 37-year Apple veteran, will join the AI team to work under AI chief John Giannandrea. Vorrath is a program management VP, and has a reputation for meticulously managing software projects at Apple … Read more
MIT senior Baran Mensah recalls taking apart his toys as a child, curious to see how every piece worked. When his mother explained to him what an engineer was, he knew that’s what he wanted to be. Mensah wasn’t particularly familiar with the culture of MIT while growing up in Ghana. But for the last … Read more
Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority OpenAI’s ChatGPT has dominated the AI chatbot conversation since its 2022 debut. However, if you follow the world of AI, you’d have come across the name Deepseek thrown around over the last few weeks. The Chinese large language model claims to trade blows with ChatGPT for its speed, accuracy, and, … Read more
