Out of Spec Reviews put a Rivian R2 Performance and a Tesla Model Y Performance on the same roads on the same afternoon. The R2 used 18% to 26% more energy at every single speed they tested.
That’s awkward, because the two SUVs carry identical EPA efficiency ratings, and Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has been telling media the R2 matches the Model Y.
What the EPA numbers say
We covered the ratings…
Tesla has confidentially settled with three of the five named plaintiffs in the racism lawsuit that has been hanging over its Fremont factory since 2017.
That doesn’t end much. Up to 580 Black workers are still suing over conditions at the same plant, and California’s…
Across the US, school districts are increasingly finding themselves caught in the middle of an uncomfortable question: Should they embrace e-bikes and e-scooters as tools that give students greater transportation independence, or restrict them because of growing safety…
Anduril’s first Ohio-made unmanned, semi-autonomous aircraft rolled off the production line Monday, just four months after its beginning.
The defense company’s first YFQ-44A was built in its Pickaway County, Ohio, manufacturing facility, dubbed Arsenal-1, according to a social media post. Anduril first announced the facility’s construction in January 2025 and slated its first products…
PARIS — Wildfires raging west of the French city of Bordeaux are threatening a number of France’s key defense-industrial sites, including an ArianeGroup facility that produces propulsion components for the M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile, Dassault Aviation’s…
Back-to-school shopping for college students means more than just bundling them off with a backpack and a reminder to not mix white clothes with colors. Today, it’s all about tech.
My son heads off to college in roughly six weeks. But as a techie dad, I’ve already…
Perfect Backup review: Perfection? Close to it
July 29, 2026
Though Windows provides its own file backup facilities in Windows File History, the OS has continually made them less obvious and less intuitive to use. Why, is anyone’s guess. There are plenty of alternatives, but they can be hard to find and/or just as difficult to use. Enter Perfect Backup.
The free version of Perfect Backup, while just shy of “perfect,” has a far more straightforward and…
You thought a Sophie’s Choice between ruinously expensive or embarrassingly underpowered laptops was as bad as the RAM crunch would get? Nope. It looks like we’re about to go backwards for graphics cards, too. A brand new AMD Radeon card has just been announced and……
Pokémon card scalping has led to the introduction of a mandatory facial recognition system at some stores in Japan, for all adult customers and children at elementary school age or older.
The Pokémon Company announced the drastic measure in an update on its official…
Backers of physical media have called on gamers to boycott PlayStation for a week in August to send a message to Sony that its decision to kill discs from 2028 is unacceptable.
The Does it play? X / Twitter account, which is a fierce critic of Sony’s plan to do away with PlayStation game discs, issued a call to arms that has been viewed on the social media platform nearly 1 million…
