Month: August 2024
Ford offers free home EV charging for some Texas residents in first-of-its kind deal
Ford and TXU Energy, one of Texas’s largest electric providers, have partnered up so customers can get free EV charging at home. Owners of newer Ford EVs and plug-in hybrids who sign up for TXU’s Free EV Miles program can get full credit back on their utility bill if they…
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Our favorite mopping robovac is on sale for nearly its best price to date
If you like the idea of investing as little effort as possible into mopping your hardwood floors, you might want to check out the current deal on the Narwal Freo X Ultra. Right now, our favorite robot vacuum for mopping is down to its second-best price of $999.99 ($400 off) at…
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Waymo’s Chinese-made robotaxis face new headwinds thanks to Biden’s tariffs
Waymo’s plans to expand its robotaxi fleet are facing new roadblocks thanks to the Biden administration’s trade policies. The Alphabet-owned company had planned to introduce a new robotaxi manufactured by Zeekr, a subsidiary of China’s Geely. The cars are being designed in Sweden (where Geely owns Swedish carmaker Volvo), adapted…
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Apple approves iDOS 3 following emulator rule change
Apple recently rejected DOS emulator iDOS 3 from the App Store, but following App Store rule changes that look to have cleared the way for PC emulator apps, iDOS 3 is now available for download, developer Chaoji Li announced. In June, Li said that Apple had rejected iDOS 3 because…
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“Most epic fail” — CrowdStrike President accepts award after global IT outage
The president of CrowdStrike has accepted the award for ‘Most Epic Fail’ at the 2024 ‘Pwnie Awards’, hosted at this year’s DefCon hacking conference. Per TechCrunch, CrowdStrike was already in attendance at the cybersecurity gathering, manning one of the largest booths at the event, and dispatching free t-shirts and action…
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Windows 11 users, good news – the Start menu could get a fresh new look to make your apps more manageable
Many of the recent changes to Windows 11’s Start menu that we’ve seen tested by Microsoft have been getting hot and cold reactions, but this hasn’t deterred the software giant from continuing to experiment with the menu, and it’s currently trialing a new ‘Category’ layout that we learned about last…
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