Rivian CFO Claire McDonough is stepping down effective October 30, leaving after nearly six years to become chief financial officer of energy giant GE Vernova.
The departure lands at the most important moment in Rivian’s history — the ramp of the R2…
For the last few weeks, my wife and I have been hopping between islands in the Philippines, and like so many travelers (and locals), we’ve been getting around on small gasoline-powered motorbikes.
It’s a big change from our normal electric steeds ba…
Cody Wilson, the creator of the first 3D-printed gun, announced a tool last week aimed at skirting a New York law that prevents 3D printers from making firearms – and taunting governor Kathy Hochul in the process. But Hochul isn’t having it. In this week’s episode of Decoder, Hochul responded to Wilson’s “Hochulization” tool, warning […]
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Kia is preparing to launch its second fully electric van following the PV5’s success. With its debut less than a month away, Kia offered a first look at the larger PV7.
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OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT’s impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That’s because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU’s Digital Services Act, a set of laws regulating major online services and […]
Electric cars are often marketed as having “x” miles of EPA-estimated range, but that doesn’t mean that’s how many miles you’ll be able to get out of yours. That’s the reality facing a growing number of Redditors who are sharing their EV commuting expe…
Tesla told federal regulators that its driver-assist system was “verified engaged” when a Model 3 crashed at 104 mph and killed its driver in Clute, Texas — a detail that never appeared in any police statement or news report about the crash, which happ…
Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It’s also renaming the “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that’s not a real human being. “We’ve heard that people don’t like seeing a profile […]
A number of headlines have made a big deal out of Lucid’s recall of 27k vehicles for an apparent fire risk. But the problem had to do with an electronic fuse controlling LED lights, and a software update distributed last month already fixed the overhea…
Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don’t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a […]