Yesterday, Tesla revealed a facelift for its bestselling Model Y crossover. Or at least it did if you live in China—customers in the US and Europe will need to continue to wait for the revamped electric vehicle. Better efficiency was a goal—in the past, Tesla simply ignored complaints over its exaggerated range claims, but now […]
“With those winds being very calm this morning, I believe we can actually make some progress, turn a corner, and start to build some containment on these fires,” Brent Pascua, a Cal Fire battalion chief, told The Today Show on Thursday. So far the disaster response has been marred by disinformation and controversy. After some […]
Airline companies must adhere to the Federal Aviation Administration’s detailed safety regulations (approximately 403 pages’ worth of them) before their planes are allowed to transport passengers. But nowhere in those guidelines is there an explicit cap on cabin temperatures during boarding outside an “improbable failure condition”—an omission that continues to result in sweaty, potentially dangerous […]
I’m not sure how much I believe in New Year’s resolutions. I believe you change your life in every moment, with every unconscious decision, and waiting for a future date like the first of the year to instate a desired new habit can be the kind of hesitation that prevents lasting change. But I’ve lived […]
Like many other respiratory viruses, Williams says that hMPV tends to impact those with chronic lung diseases or existing conditions such as asthma and cancer. But despite this, he has found that many doctors are unaware that it’s a threat, largely because until relatively recently, no one was testing for it outside of academic studies. […]
FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republicans are preparing to take up several measures in the new year that were denied votes by Democrats in the last Congress. The first of these is the Laken Riley Act, being reintroduced by Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., and teed up for a vote by the end of the week. The […]
In 2025 we will enter a new era of safety by design for our digital playgrounds. Online games are spaces where billions of people worldwide come together to play, socialize, and unwind. However, they are also environments where harassment, hate speech, and grooming for violence and sexual exploration frequently occur. Today, most players of online […]
The US government finally got its metaphorical hands on Do Hyeong Kwon, the 33-year-old Korean national who built a financial empire on the cryptocurrency Luna and the “stablecoin” TerraUSD, only to see it all come crashing down in a wipeout that cost investors $40 billion. As private investors filed lawsuits, and as the governments of […]
Forty years ago in November, Cesar Chavez gave a speech at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club that was as much of a promise as a warning. The main topic of the 25-minute talk was the lessons he learned from a career organizing campesinos in California and beyond, in the face of fierce opposition. “All my life, […]
After 20 months of war, and three months of negotiations with the warring sides, a bit of relief arrives for some of the hundreds of thousands of people facing famine.
