Range Rover Sport Electric Previewed as Land Rover’s Next Performance EV SUV : Automotive Addicts
Automotive Land Rover is preparing to add a fully electric version of the Range Rover Sport to its lineup, giving one of its most popular luxury SUVs a new battery-powered direction. The Range Rover Sport Electric made its…
Internal Facebook documents showed that the platform once weighted every reaction emoji five times more heavily than Likes — a design choice that quietly amplified provocative content because strong reactions like outrage counted for more
Beginning in 2017, Facebook’s ranking algorithm treated a reaction emoji as five times more valuable than a Like. Not the angry face specifically. All of them. Love, haha, wow, sad and angry each counted for five, while the old thumbs-up…
Samsung just made outdoor movie nights easier with the Freestyle Plus projector
TL;DR Samsung has launched a new projector called the Freestyle Plus. The device is able to project a viewing experience of up to 100 inches. The projector also uses AI to correct distortions on uneven surfaces, detect obstacles in the…
OpenAI’s new hardware is a $230, 13-switch keyboard for Codex
OpenAI is selling its first hardware — without any help from Jony Ive. It describes the Codex Micro as a “command center for agentic work” but it’s really a 13-switch wireless keyboard customized to help developers keep tabs on what…
2027 Kia Seltos Is On Sale Now Starting at $24,990 With More Space, More Tech, and a Hybrid on the Way : Automotive Addicts
Automotive When we first previewed the 2027 Kia Seltos, it was clear Kia was taking its small SUV well beyond a routine redesign. Now that the gas-powered 2027 Seltos is on sale, the picture is much clearer. This…
A 1948 IBM computer with no memory at all, fed by punchcards and programmed by physically rewiring its panels, was still doing the accounting at a Texas filtration company as recently as 2020
At Sparkler Filters in Conroe, Texas, accounting once meant carrying a deck of punched cards to an IBM 402, fitting the correct wired control panel into its side and listening as relays and mechanical counters turned the cards into a…
Samsung details the secrets of foldable screen Flex Titanium tech
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung’s about to launch a trio of new foldable phones, including the Fold 8 and Flip 8. Rumors have already suggested these devices could feature virtually creaseless display panels. Samsung now details how it…
How to use virtual environments in Python
Using Python virtual environments with Jupyter notebooks If you’re using Jupyter notebooks (aka IPython notebooks), and you already have Jupyter installed systemwide, create your virtual environment and activate it. Then, from your virtual environment directory, run pip install ipykernel to…
Ford F-150 Overland Capacity: What Actually Matters When You’re Packing for the Backcountry! : Automotive Addicts
Automotive Overland Builds Live and Die by How Well You Use Your Roof Ask ten F-150 owners what “overland ready” means and you’ll get ten different answers. Bigger tires. A winch. A rooftop tent. But talk to anyone…
The Roman Pantheon’s unreinforced concrete dome has stood for nearly 1,900 years and remains the largest of its kind on Earth, partly because its builders mixed in lighter volcanic rock near the top and left a 27-foot hole open at its center.
The Pantheon’s concrete dome has been holding itself up in the middle of Rome since roughly 128 CE, when the emperor Hadrian’s builders closed the last ring of a 142-foot span with a 27-foot hole punched through its crown. Nearly…
