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Waze appears to be struggling with performance issues on Android Auto and CarPlay

Google’s other navigation app, Waze, is an incredibly helpful way to stay informed on your route, but lately, the app has been suffering from lag issues on Android Auto and CarPlay for some. A trending support thread on Google’s forums as well as a second over on Waze’s own forums shows that there are quite a few Waze users seeing lag problems across CarPlay and Android Auto. The problem…
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Meta unleashes BlenderBot 3 upon the internet, its most competent chat AI to date

More than half a decade after Microsoft’s truly monumental Taye debacle, the incident still stands as stark reminder of how quickly an AI can be corrupted after exposure to the internet’s potent toxicity and a warning against building bots without sufficiently robust behavioral tethers. On Friday, Meta’s AI Research division will see if its latest iteration of Blenderbot AI can…
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The Electrek Review: BMW i4 eDrive40 is low effort but still highly enjoyable experience

The BMW i4 eDrive40 delivered to my door by BMW looks almost indiscernible from a 4-series internal combustion engine vehicle. It even has what appear to be exhaust pipes out the back. I imagine the pitch for this car in some Bavarian BMW corporate office was something like: Look, Tesla is eating our lunch, let’s please just make an EV version of the 4 series to take on the Model 3. It will…
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Tesla Cybertruck update: Higher price and production equipment coming

Tesla Cybertruck reservation holders got a minor update on the upcoming electric truck at Tesla’s annual shareholder’s meeting. CEO Elon Musk confirmed that it is going to have a higher price than previously announced, and that production equipment is about to be installed. When Tesla unveiled the Cybertruck back in 2019, Tesla said that the electric pickup truck would make it to market by…
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