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Dodge Charger Sixpack Is Getting More Power but a HEMI Comeback Still Looks Unlikely : Automotive Addicts

Automotive Dodge appears ready to give muscle car fans something new to talk about, even if it is not the long-rumored HEMI comeback many still want. A more powerful gas-powered Dodge Charger is reportedly set to debut at…

By the time 50 million had installed Meta’s smart-glasses app, few knew what sat unused inside it: dormant facial-recognition code that could spot a face, build a biometric signature, and flash ‘person recognised’ the instant it saw someone

Here is the line Meta would probably like you to walk away with: the code never ran, it was dormant, and users could not have triggered it. Within a day of the reporting that exposed it, most of it was…

Google starts informing Android users about a major backup storage change

Shimul Sood / Android Authority TL;DR Google has started emailing Android users about its upcoming backup storage policy change that takes effect in 45 days. All Android backup data, including SMS, call history, device settings, and app settings, will soon…

AI OK in Linux development, says Torvalds

“It can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a ‘it keeps finding embarrassing bugs’ standpoint,” he said of the use of AI in security scanning. “The solution is to make sure those LLM…

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…