Xpeng is often called the Chinese challenger to Tesla for its efforts to bring advanced driving capabilities to its electric vehicles. It’s now getting a step closer to its American counterpart as it gets rid of high-definition mapping in its XNGP assisted driving feature, its equivalent to Tesla FSD. Tesla FSD famously does not rely … Read more
Slack The pandemic revolutionized how people communicate, with video calls being the cornerstone of the workday. A universal part of the video call experience is awkwardly waiting for everyone to join the call. Slack has a new feature that should make the wait time more bearable. Slack has its own meeting feature called Huddles, which … Read more
MEXICO CITY — On a bank of Villa Victoria reservoir, where in other years boats might have used them to anchor, 10 concrete blocks lie exposed to the sun. They should be under water, but that was before severe drought dropped the reservoir to the lowest level that Gabriel Bejarano has seen since he moved … Read more
Comment on this storyComment U.S. immigration authorities Wednesday returned nearly 130 migrants to Venezuela, starting deportation flights Biden administration officials view as a crucial step toward reducing the record numbers of illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border. The deportations follow an agreement by the Venezuelan government to hold competitive elections next year, a deal … Read more
Tesla appears to be implementing a new feature called the Driver Drowsiness Warning, which uses the car’s cabin camera to determine whether the driver is too sleepy to driver. As noticed by Electrek, the description of the feature started showing up in the European owner’s manual for Tesla Model 3. Located under “Active Safety Features,” … Read more
X, formerly Twitter, announced today that is starting a new experiment to charge a $1 per year fee for “new unverified” users to interact with posts. The company said this test is currently live in New Zealand and the Philippines and existing users won’t be affected. Users will get to post content, like, repost, reply, … Read more
Novartis said in August that it plans to spin off its generics unit Sandoz to sharpen its focus on its patented prescription medicines. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Novartis on Wednesday completed the spinoff of its generics and biosimilars business Sandoz, whose shares began trading at 24 Swiss francs in the early minutes of … Read more
HMD Global, the phone maker and marketer behind the Nokia mobile phone brand, has launched its very first smartphone manufactured in Europe. The news comes some six months after the Finnish company first revealed it was transitioning some of its manufacturing to Europe to meet a growing demand from enterprises for locally-produced hardware to address … Read more
Work has started on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station FILE – An exterior view of Adolf Hitler’s birth house, front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on Sept. 27, 2012. Work started Monday Oct. 2, 2023 on turning the house where Adolf Hitler was born … Read more
Justin Brownlee has been the only consistent offensive weapon for the Nationals.—POOL PHOTO For a brief time in the Philippines’ eventual loss to Jordan in the 19th Asian Games (Asiad) on Saturday, Gilas showed grit and poise in overhauling a 12-point halftime deficit and even forcing a pair of deadlocks in the third quarter. There … Read more