The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Loop with Tesla vehicles traveling in tunnels, the first commercial application of its transportation system, has now connected to its first resort on the strip. This marks the beginning of the city-wide loop.
The Las Vegas Convention Center Loop is The Boring Company’s first full-scale loop project currently in commercial use. Elon Musk’s tunneling startup…
This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discuss our Cadillac Lyriq test drive, a Tesla Model S Plaid achieving a new top speed record, Giga Texas ramping up, and more.
The show is…
Question: When does an internal-combustion-engined car become valueless?
Answer: When the cost of buying or leasing an electric vehicle along with paying for maintenance and miles becomes less expensive than using a free gas car.
That’s already been the case for years…
Wildlife photographer, Sascha Fonseca, recently posted an incredible picture of a snow leopard, the world’s most elusive big cat, using a DSLR camera trap in Ladakh, India.
Fonseca spoke to PetaPixel to explain how he captured the stunning image and how his photography comes from a passion to conserve these ultra-rare, wild creatures.
“Snow leopards, also referred to as ‘Ghost of…
Computer scientists at the University of Groningen have created a system to analyze the noise produced by individual cameras to help law enforcement fight child exploitation.
Groningen is a city in the Netherlands, which is the biggest distributor of child sex…
NASA has announced that the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI, the second of the James Webb Space Telescope’s four primary scientific instruments, has concluded its preparations and is ready to start capturing the universe.
Since Webb’s telescope optics and…
A few months ago, the US Copyright Office rejected Steven Thaler’s request to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he dubbed the Creativity Machine.
Thaler’s objective was to test the office to see whether they would grant copyright to an artificially intelligent (AI) machine. The United States Copyright Office found that Thaler’s AI-created image didn’t include an…
With Android 13 on the horizon, OnePlus is now finally offering OnePlus 7 and 7T series owners the opportunity to install Android 12 with the launch of the OxygenOS 12 Open Beta.
Announced in two separate posts on the OnePlus Forums, OxygenOS 12 Open Beta 1 can now be…
OnePlus is now rolling out the June 2022 security patch to a small pool of devices. Here’s every single smartphone seeing the very latest OTA.
OnePlus June 2022 security update — What’s new?
At the start of June, Google added the security patch as the seventh…
Google Translate makes it easier to peruse the web without running into the language barrier, but sometimes the all-or-nothing approach of Google Chrome’s built-in Translate integration can be the wrong way to handle it. Now, Google Chrome is preparing the ability to translate selected text.
As spotted by Leopeva64 on Reddit, Google Chrome is currently testing out a new ability to translate…
