Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running late
Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running late

Google may be expanding its “Call for Me” AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority reports finding a “Gemini Calling” introductory screen in an APK teardown with examples that include “Call Mom and tell her I will be 15 minutes late” and “Call […]

Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US
Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US

Six Flags Magic Mountain is putting its parking lots to work with a new 12.37-megawatt (MW) solar installation – California’s largest solar carport. It’s expected to generate enough electricity each year to offset the annual power use of both the amuse…

Department of War drafts EV battery factory into military drone duty with $75M grant
Department of War drafts EV battery factory into military drone duty with $75M grant

As if to prove that there may not be money for universal childcare or nationalized healthcare but there is ALWAYS more money for war, the US Department of War has awarded Amprius a $75 million grant to convert a civilian EV battery production line to c…

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports
Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updated in ways to completely change the original game. Ever imagined skateboarding in Call of Duty? Or playing the original Halo right […]

BYD’s flagship electric SUV has now topped 10,000 sales for 3 months straight
BYD’s flagship electric SUV has now topped 10,000 sales for 3 months straight

BYD’s full-size flagship electric SUV is off to a strong early start, with more than 10,000 units sold in its first three months on the market.

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Lucid (LCID) Q3 deliveries drop 7% as it slashes production by 38%
Lucid (LCID) Q3 deliveries drop 7% as it slashes production by 38%

Lucid (LCID) delivered 3,806 vehicles in the third quarter, down 7% from a year ago. It built only 2,954, a 38% cut from the previous quarter and its lowest production since early 2025.

The automaker says that’s on purpose. New CEO Silvio Napoli is …

This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions
This startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions

People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze acne severity and autonomously write a prescription, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The service is launching […]

Hyundai is testing a smaller electric SUV — could it be the IONIQ 4? [Video]
Hyundai is testing a smaller electric SUV — could it be the IONIQ 4? [Video]

A disguised Hyundai SUV has been spotted out testing, giving us an early look at what’s thought to be the IONIQ 4, or possibly the IONIQ 1.

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Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage

Following many recent disclosures about AI agents accessing third-party websites and services, the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, says that it “can confirm that we have discovered some activity” by “rogue” OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms. The activity includes edits to Wikimedia wikis, “unsuccessful attempts” to “exploit” the Etherpad note-taking tool that the Wikimedia Foundation […]

Hyundai CEO says only a ‘level playing field’ can minimize damage from China
Hyundai CEO says only a ‘level playing field’ can minimize damage from China

There’s been a lot of doom and gloom from the auto industry lately when the subject of China comes up. Automaker CEOs, in particular, warn that allowing low-cost, high-tech Chinese electric vehicles to be sold in the US would effectively spell the end of their businesses. Hyundai CEO José Muñoz is not as pessimistic as […]