WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) announced today that it is accepting applications for the third year of its Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program. The SMART Grants Program was made possible by the Biparti … | Continue reading
Penske represents the voice of America’s truck fleets on PACT’s Board of Directors WASHINGTON — Powering America’s Commercial Transportation (“PACT”), a coalition focused on education and advocacy for accelerating the construction of nationwide infrastructure for medium- and heav … | Continue reading
CEP Renewables Begins Construction on 19 MW Brownfield Solar Project in New Jersey RED BANK, N.J. — CEP Renewables announced that construction has begun on its 19 MW dc grid supply Foul Rift solar project located in White Township, Warren County, New Jersey. The project is being … | Continue reading
A recent Bluetooth connection between a device on Earth and a satellite in orbit signals a potential new space race—this time, for global location-tracking networks. Seattle-based startup Hubble Network announced today that it had a letter of understanding with San Francisco-base … | Continue reading
Ina Fried, Axios: OpenAI Monday announced a new flagship model, dubbed GPT-4o, that brings more powerful capabilities to all its customers, including smarter, faster real-time voice interactions. The presentation was broadcast live and it is worth watching, particularly the last … | Continue reading
Hello GPT-4o OpenAI announced a new model today: GPT-4o, where the o stands for "omni". It looks like this is the gpt2-chatbot we've been seeing in the Chat Arena the past few weeks. GPT-4o doesn't seem to be a huge leap ahead of GPT-4 in terms of "intelligence" - whatever that m … | Continue reading
The fact that a show about a devious witch has us so confused feels completely on brand. It started back in late 2021 when Marvel revealed it was working on a WandaVision spinoff series focused on Kathryn Hahn’s breakout character, Agatha Harkness. Since then, the show has had at … | Continue reading
Linux kernel 6.9 has been released after several months of attentive development. Linux founder Linus Torvalds announced the final release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List in his usual relaxed, laissez faire style. He notes that while kernel contributors have reported “a few regr … | Continue reading
OpenAI has announced that it will demo updates for its new AI chatbot and GPT-4 today (May 13) but stopped… Continue reading OpenAI to reveal new GPT-4 and ChatGPT updates – but no search engine The post OpenAI to reveal new GPT-4 and ChatGPT updates – but no search engine appear … | Continue reading
Image credit: Google As a parent, finding the buying the best books for your children can be an expensive undertaking, thanks to the price of books are increasing year by year. Addressing this challenge up to some extent, Google Play Books has announced that it is expanding its k … | Continue reading
Altilium, a UK-based clean technology group focused on supporting the transition to net zero, has announced details of the latest advances in its innovative EcoCathode™ hydrometallurgical recycling technology, with breakthroughs in the recovery of lithium from new battery chemist … | Continue reading
Ryanair, Europe’s no. 1 airline, announced today the extension to the end of the decade and made a further €2.5 m donation (€4 m total) to fund the Ryanair Sustainable Aviation Research Centre. Underpinned by an initial €1.5m donation from Ryanair, Research at the Ryanair Sustain … | Continue reading
Arkane Austin is no more after Xbox announced its closing three studios and merging one at Bethesda. The studio that created the original Dishonored game (with Arkane Lyon as Arkane Studios) and the 2017 game Prey will unfairly be remembered by their last game, the multiplayer co … | Continue reading
Walt Disney World has announced that Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will be opening this summer. The formal announcement was supposed to be made during tonight’s “Disney Night” on “American Idol,” but a slip up released the information earlier today. The Details Get ready to head to Lou … | Continue reading
One of guests’ favorite things about staying at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge are the animals that roam the savanna outside, and this week Walt Disney World has announced the birth of a new baby Addax to the herd that roams the resort. The Details The newest member of the Addax h … | Continue reading
VinFast Auto today announced the launch of Sony’s new online entertainment service, RIDEVU, on its VF 8 electric car model in the U.S. As the world’s first automobile manufacturer to launch RIDEVU, VinFast reaffirms its commitment to providing modern, smart electric car products … | Continue reading
The World I see so many posts about the Aurora Borealis (?) from people in the North. Once again we citizens of the tropics are discriminated against! StackOverflow announced a partnership with OpenAI. People are upset. Yahoo. Ars Technica. Apple announced a bunch of iPad stuff I … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that 68 tech companies — notably including heavyweights such as Google and Microsoft — signed the agency’s voluntary information security pledge. The pledge compels the signatories to pursue a … | Continue reading
OpenAI will livestream updates to ChatGPT and GPT-4 on Monday at 1 p.m. ET. In a Friday tweet, CEO Sam Altman rejected several reports that OpenAI is launching a search engine or GPT-5 at the event. However, Altman announced something that “feels like magic” is coming to ChatGPT. … | Continue reading
When audiences last saw Rey Skywalker, she announced her new name and the credits rolled. What specifically she’d do next, how she was feeling, andall that kind of stuff was left for the future. Nowwe know that future includes a new movie—but well before that, an official Star Wa … | Continue reading
The timing seemed just a little too precious. A day after Warner Bros. announced it would be making a new Lord of the Rings film called “The Hunt for Gollum,” a fan film with the same name that had been online for 15 years was removed from YouTube. “This video contains content fr … | Continue reading
Apple released a number of new products this week, including new iPad models as well as some new software for its pro users with Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. Apple also announced its quarterly financials, which Dave and I talk about, including products sold and total revenue. Fin … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced this week that they plan on launching their own mobile game app store to compete with Apple and… Continue reading Microsoft readies launch of its own mobile app store The post Microsoft readies launch of its own mobile app store appeared first on ReadWrite. | Continue reading
Motiv, a leading Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of class 4-6 electric trucks and buses driving the backbone of modern commerce, today announced it has fully completed the delivery of 55 Motiv electric trucks to Purolator, a leading integrated freight, package, and logistic … | Continue reading
ComEd on track to electrify 50 percent of its vehicle fleet and reduce operations-driven emissions by 50 percent by 2030 As part of its continued commitment to accelerate the electrification of transportation, ComEd yesterday announced the addition of two new, all-electric bucket … | Continue reading
Netflix and Roblox have announced that they will be collaborating on a digital theme park called ‘Nextworld Universe’, where players… Continue reading Nextworld Universe: Roblox and Netflix team up to create digital theme park The post Nextworld Universe: Roblox and Netflix team … | Continue reading
Following last year’s decision to introduce mandatory ID checks at outdoor swimming pools, Berlin senator Iris Sprenger (SPD) has announced several additional security measures.... | Continue reading
Tigo TS4-X devices provide the latest in safety, monitoring, and optimization, including a new Multi-Factor Rapid Shutdown (MFRS) capability for critical applications, for solar installers deploying modules up to 800W Tigo Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: TYGO), a leading provider of intell … | Continue reading
If you’ve been waiting for an über-cheap EV that can handle all of your daily driving needs on city streets, perhaps for commuting or running errands, and you don’t need it for roadtrips or hauling a bunch of passengers, you’re in luck. Eli Electric Vehicles recently announced th … | Continue reading
Disney Entertainment and Warner Bros. Discovery have announced a new streaming bundle that will include Disney+, Hulu, and Max together starting this summer, and here’s what we know. The Details Beginning this Summer in the U.S, the streaming services will be offered together, pr … | Continue reading
Where’s Gollum? Has anyone seen Gollum? Warner Bros. Discovery was certainly looking for him (or, more precisely, a way to cash in on their The Lord of the Rings’ intellectual property rights). Today, during the corporation’s first-quarter earnings conference call (via The Hollyw … | Continue reading
California spent the last decade building up a massive fleet of batteries to help clean up its electrical grid. This spring, those storage plants passed a major threshold, and now are visibly reshaping the state’s power grid — just as clean energy advocates said they would. Gover … | Continue reading
Today, in Racine, Wisconsin, President Joe Biden announced that Microsoft is investing $3.3 billion dollars to build a new data center that will help operate one of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in the world. It is expected to create 2,300 union construction j … | Continue reading
Source: The Walt Disney Company. Today, Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive announced What If…? – An Immersive Story for Disney+ subscriber on the Apple Vision Pro. What If…? is Marvel Studios’ animated series that considers what might occur if major events in the Marvel Cinematic U … | Continue reading
Apple’s presentation moved fast yesterday, and since the event concluded, more details have emerged about everything announced. We’ve been combing Apple’s product pages, social media, and other sources to learn more about everything announced, which we’ve collected below: Chance … | Continue reading
Today Dresden, Germany-based startup SpiNNcloud Systems announced that their hybrid supercomputing platform, the SpiNNcloud Platform, is available for sale. The machine combines traditional AI accelerators with neuromorphic computing capabilities, using system design strategies t … | Continue reading
Pokémon GO! May Community Day Details have been announced, and the lineup includes a new fruit-based monster, Bounsweet. It’s the… Continue reading Pokémon GO! May Community Day details announced The post Pokémon GO! May Community Day details announced appeared first on ReadWrite … | Continue reading
[It’s no “Fuck Face” Billy Ripken card, but it’s still pretty good.] Not long after last week’s bee delay and subsequent apian heroics, trading card company Topps issued a Matt Hilton trading card. Thanks to reader Jack B. for alerting me to this delightful nonsense: Topps announ … | Continue reading
Remedy announced it has cancelled the development of Codename Kestrel, the co-op multiplayer game. Codename Kestrel was a reboot of project Vanguard, which restarted development in November 2023. Tencent was co-financing and co-publishing the project. The cancellation will see th … | Continue reading
Miami, Florida — Lilium N.V. (NASDAQ:LILM), developer of the first all-electric vertical take-off and landing (“eVTOL”) jet and global pioneer in Regional Air Mobility (RAM), yesterday announced their partnership with advanced air mobility (AAM) operator UrbanLink to operate Lili … | Continue reading
Hanoi, Vietnam — VinFast Auto (Nasdaq: VFS) today announced it is accepting early deposits for the VF 3 mini e-SUV in the Vietnamese market. VinFast focuses on accessibility with a price for the VF 3 starting from just over $9,200, along with attractive features and services. At … | Continue reading
Kobo might be all the rage these days thanks to the recent launch of the 7-inch Libra Colour and the 6-inch Clara Colour and the Clara BW though things do not end here. The company has now announced a sale on a few of its older Kobo e-readers. Those include the 8-inch Kobo Sage a … | Continue reading
So, here’s a test run. I’ve connected my external keyboard and trackpad to my 2018 iPad Pro to see if I can tolerate using it this way. The reason for this is Apple announced new iPads, updates to the Pro and Air models, with newer chipsets in them than my M1 MacBook Air, which d … | Continue reading
Wes Davis, writing at The Verge: The newly announced iPad Pro hides a sneaky upgrade option that Apple didn’t mention during its event today. When you cough up the $600 it costs to jump from the 256GB base model iPad Pro to the 1TB version, Apple doesn’t just double the RAM along … | Continue reading
Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based mode … | Continue reading
Amid a backdrop of spring birds chirping away the morning, Apple announced a bevy of updates to its iPad lineup in a streamed presentation. The company has launched a new family of iPad Airs with an updated processor and double the storage, plus two new iPad Pros with MacBook-lev … | Continue reading
The wait is finally over. Apple just announced two brand-new iPad Pros—an 11-inch and a 13-inch model—at its Let Loose event today, confirming our months-long speculation about them. The event also revealed two new 11 and 13-inch iPad Air models. Read more... | Continue reading
Zwift has announced that they are increases prices effective June 6th, 2024, the first price increase in more than 7 years for the company. The last increase was in November 2017, from $9.99 to $14.99. In doing so, they’ve essentially … Read More Here → | Continue reading