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Slate’s Gray $25,000 Truck Just Got a Crayola Makeover
The Bezos-backed automaker building America’s cheapest electric truck is teaming up with the crayon company in a bid to brighten its rides. Make ours Razzmatazz.
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Free Waymo rides in California? You can thank a regulatory quirk.
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned leader in driverless robotaxis, is being held up by a delayed ruling from a California regulator, meaning it cannot yet expand into new parts of Northern and Southern California or charge passengers for rides in its new vehicle. As a result of this regulatory quirk, riders can currently travel in Waymo’s new…
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Yorkshire Water urges customers to limit water usage as climate change is ‘driving extreme weather patterns’
Yorkshire Water has urged customers to cut back on non-essential water use, warning that climate change is contributing to more extreme and less predictable weather patterns. The report says the company is trying to protect supplies during a period of dry conditions and higher demand, while also signalling that these pressures may become more common.…
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Art gallery where Princess Eugenie is a director is cleared of breaching Russian sanctions over sale of painting
An art gallery where Princess Eugenie serves as a director has been cleared of breaching UK sanctions imposed on Russia. Hauser & Wirth, along with shipping company Artay Rauchwerger Solomons, had faced criminal charges over the sale of a painting to a buyer named Alexander Popov, whom prosecutors alleged was a Russian resident. The case…
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Sam And Louise Sullivan – “Love & Devotion”
Folk-rock duo Sam and Louise Sullivan have released “Love & Devotion”, the title track and latest single from their forthcoming record of the same name. The song follows last month’s lead single “Down On Love” and continues the pair’s nostalgic, 1960s-inflected style, marking another step in the build-up to the album’s release. Sam Sullivan described…
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It looks like monitor manufacturers can download bloatware without consent that will serve you pop-up ads
PC Gamer reports that some monitor manufacturers appear able to install software onto users’ PCs without explicit consent, with this bloatware then capable of serving pop-up advertisements. The concern matters because it suggests display hardware — not just laptops or pre-built systems — can act as a vector for unwanted software that affects the user…
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Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
Character.AI has announced c.ai Series, a slate of short-form, episodic “microdramas” designed to be watched and interacted with on a phone, marking the latest step in the company’s push to become a broader storytelling platform beyond its LLM-powered chatbots. Unlike rival services such as ReelShort and DramaBox, which offer cheaply produced live-action shows with human…
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The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn’t actually a launch company
The US Space Force has added two more companies, Impulse Space and Relativity Space, to the pool of firms eligible to bid for national security launch contracts. Winning a place in the military launch market is both a mark of maturity and a valuable revenue source for rocket firms. While Relativity Space’s inclusion is unsurprising…
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Germany set to make rental e-scooter operators liable for accidents
Germany’s parliament is set to pass legislation making rental e-scooter operators such as Lime and Bolt legally liable for accidents caused by their vehicles, putting them on a similar footing to cars. The change matters because victims currently have to prove that an individual rider was at fault to claim compensation — a difficult standard…
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Licence to drill? How a Trump-linked Texas oil company is elbowing its way into Greenland
A Texas-based oil company, Greenland Energy, is pushing to drill for oil beneath Jameson Land in eastern Greenland, backed by figures linked to Donald Trump. At a June meeting in the remote settlement of Ittoqqortoormiit, the company’s representative, Robert Price, told residents it had permission to land drilling equipment and had filed pending applications to…