Microsoft Teams will be getting animated backgrounds, which means you can be a bit flashy in your virtual meetings. It remains to be seen what they will look like, but if you interpret the images of the backgrounds that Microsoft has released, it looks like they will be quite artistic and something that belongs in […]
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Google is going to replace the padlock icon in Chrome
Most people are familiar with the padlock icon at the top of the browser, but the question is how many actually know what it means. According to Google, not enough, which has led to the decision to remove the icon from Chrome and replace it with a “settings” icon (as seen in the image below). […]
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Now there’s an extra big Defender
Do you think the regular Defender is a bit too small? Lucky for you, now there’s an extra big variant! The Defender 130 Outbound has grown in every dimension, based on the new Defender 130 which has a V8 engine with 500 PS, taking the big car to 100 km/h in 5.7 seconds. But the […]
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Now you must be logged in to Twitter to be able to search
Twitter has made a change to its interface, which means that one must now be logged in to the service to use Twitter’s search function. Previously, anyone could use the search function on Twitter’s website. Now, the search box has disappeared for those who do not have an account on the service and have not […]
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Apple reveals figures for the App Store in Europe
Thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, Apple has been forced to share how many users are using the App Store on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. According to the company’s figures, the App Store on iOS has 101 million users in Europe, while the Mac App Store has 6 million. tvOS has one […]
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China’s rover on Mars may have fallen asleep for good
China’s Mars rover Zhurong may have possibly fallen asleep for good after being put into hibernation mode in May of last year. The plan was for it to rest during the Martian winter and then be reactivated in December of last year. It doesn’t seem like that has happened, and China’s space agency CSNA has […]
Posted inGaming
The UK blocks Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today that it will not approve Microsoft’s acquisition of game company Activision Blizzard. The CMA primarily points to the future of cloud gaming as the main reason why it will not approve the deal. In a press release, they wrote: Microsoft has a strong position in cloud […]
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Japanese moon landing mission failed
Yesterday, Japanese company Ispace was set to perform its first moon landing, but unfortunately, it did not go as planned. At first, the descent of Ispace’s lunar spacecraft, Hakuto-R, went as intended, but when the spacecraft was about 90 meters from the moon’s surface, contact with it was lost. Ispace later stated in a comment […]
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Space telescope Euclid will soon be sent to space
This summer, the European Space Agency (ESA) is planning to launch its new space telescope, Euclid, into space. ESA hopes that through Euclid’s observations, they will be able to learn more about the relationship between dark energy, dark matter, and gravity, and how these forces affect the expansion of the universe. ESA writes: While dark […]
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Hyundai Ioniq 5 N premieres at Goodwood
Summer is approaching, and there will be things happening in several places. One of them is that Hyundai will unveil the performance version N of the electric car Ioniq 5. This will happen at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which has become a place for many car manufacturers to showcase their news. This year, the […]
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Samsung releases new photo editing app
Samsung has now released its photo editing app, Galaxy Enhance-X, in the final version for the Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra. With this AI-driven app, users can adjust and enhance brightness, sharpness, HDR, colors, or adjust facial features in any image with just one click. The app is available for download for […]
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Cupra presents Tavascan
The Tavascan concept from 2019 has now resulted in a production version with the same name. This will be Cupra’s first fully electric SUV coupe and second electric car after Born. Born is essentially a Volkswagen ID.3 with a slightly more stylish appearance, while Tavascan is a Volkswagen ID.5 GTX with the same theme. However, […]
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Airbus unveils Loop space station with simulated gravity
Airbus has presented some sketches of what a future space station might look like. Airbus calls its concept “Loop” and one section of the space station is equipped with a centrifuge that would simulate gravity similar to Earth’s gravity, which would allow astronauts to spend their time on the space station in a state of […]
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Honda has unveiled four new electric car concepts
Honda aims to only sell electric cars in China by 2035, and the four new concepts that have just been revealed are intended to help achieve this. By 2027, the automaker plans to have presented ten new electric cars, and the news we see here is named e:NP2, e:NS2, e:N SUV Prologue, and e:N GT […]
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BMW presents its most powerful electric car yet
Now BMW presents the M version i7 M70 xDrive, which is the most powerful and fastest electric car from BMW Group to date. It offers 660 horsepower, 1100 Newton meters of torque, and the huge and heavy (2689 kilograms) luxury car should be able to do 0-100 km/h in just 3.7 seconds. The top speed […]
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Now it’s here – Volkswagen ID.7
Now, this is Volkswagen’s electric sedan model, the ID.7. We’ve both seen what it looks like before and learned a lot of information about the car, but now the official premiere has taken place. This will be the flagship in the ID family, and to earn that title, it must perform, and the ID.7 does […]
Posted inWearable
Louis Vuitton showcases its new luxury watch
Louis Vuitton displays its iconic monogram in a new way with the Voyager Skeleton watch. The French luxury brand Louis Vuitton is probably best known by most people as a manufacturer of suitcases and handbags, where the brand’s monogram is often prominent. In addition to leather goods, clothing, and shoes, they also produce watches – […]
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A 15-inch MacBook Air is rumored to be in the works
Last year, rumors began circulating that Apple was working on a MacBook Air with a 15-inch screen, and now the news agency Bloomberg is also reporting that this may be the case. According to the information Bloomberg has obtained, the new MacBook Air model will run Apple’s M2 chip with an eight-core CPU and ten-core […]
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Check out Tesla Cybertruck’s windshield wiper
In the video clip below, a newly taken drone video from Tesla’s Gigafactory in Texas can be found, where we also get a glimpse of the windshield wiper on a Tesla Cybertruck. If you jump 13 minutes into the clip, you can see a Cybertruck parked in a wind tunnel, and around 13:40 into the […]
Posted inAI
Sony is going to provide AI for Raspberry Pi mini-computers
Sony has entered into a partnership with the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the aim of integrating hardware from Sony’s AI platform AITRIOS into Raspberry Pi computers. The idea seems to be that the collaboration could lead to relatively cheap single-board computers that can handle AI processes directly on the computer. Unlike cloud-based AI solutions, this […]
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Koenigsegg teases the Gemera configurator
One thing that new car buyers often get the opportunity to do is to specify their car exactly as they want it. Nowadays, this can be done in fancy online configurators and Koenigsegg is currently working on one for the Gemera model. The tool isn’t quite ready yet, but they couldn’t resist showing a little […]
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New Mercedes E-Class premieres on April 25th
In two weeks, on April 25th to be exact, Mercedes will unveil the new E-Class and you can follow the event live at the link below. The evolution of a brand icon: digital performance and advanced powertrains. The new E-Class combines the unique “at home” feeling that customers have loved for decades with a new […]
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Rivian’s CEO talks about the future
Rivian’s CEO, RJ Scaringe, recently appeared on Marques Brownlee’s WVFRM podcast and shared some information about the company’s future plans. We learn that smaller models are on the way and will appear around 2026, and a bit about the new platform.
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Volkswagen ID.7 leaks
Now there are images from the Chinese patent office showing what the Volkswagen ID.7 looks like without camouflage. The car measures 4.96 meters in length, 1.86 in width, 1.54 in height and has a wheelbase of 2.96 meters. Under the hood is a rear-axle electric motor that delivers 204 horsepower. It is connected to either […]
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Elon Musk “renames” Twitter to Titter
It seems to have been an eventful Easter at Twitter and yesterday, Twitter’s owner Musk once again showed his sense of humor. Musk’s latest move on Twitter is that he has asked someone to paint over the “w” in the logo on Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, making it look like the company is called […]
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The testing of the Volkswagen ID.7 is almost complete
Next up in Volkswagen’s ID family is the ID.7, which is a sedan model described as a flagship. The manufacturer now announces that testing of the car is almost finished and in two weeks, it will have its world premiere. Various media outlets have been given a sneak peek of the car, and in the […]
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New Mitsubishi Colt will begin selling this fall
Mitsubishi launched the small car Colt in the 1960s. The latest generation sold 400,000 units between 2004 and 2014. This fall, the model returns and now we get a first glimpse of it. One of the new features is that it will be offered as a hybrid. The entry-level model will have a three-cylinder 1.0-liter […]
Posted inEntertainment
Trailer for The White House Plumbers
HBO has produced a new miniseries about the events that led up to what is known as the Watergate scandal, an event that caused then-US President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974. In the series The White House Plumbers, we get to see how former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy (played by Justin Theroux) and […]
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Apple starts with credit payments
In the USA, Apple is now adding a feature called Apple Pay Later. It is a credit solution where the payment is divided into four parts where you pay the first quarter at the time of purchase and then a quarter every other week. After six weeks, everything should be paid off. Users can apply […]
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Twitter prepares for impact following online leak of its source code
According to a legal filing with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, portions of Twitter’s source code have been leaked online. The contents of the source code, which is the crucial software that powers the platform, were discovered on GitHub, a hosting service for software development. Twitter sent a copyright infringement […]