Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken (arstechnica.com)
Inundated with complaints, Tesla created "Diversion Team" to cancel appointments.
Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you (arstechnica.com)
The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)
Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.
Over 230 people get puzzling neurological disorder in Peru; emergency declared (arstechnica.com)
Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, OpenAI released an official ChatGPT app for Android, now available in the Google Play Store in four countries: the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with more coming soon. As a client for OpenAI’s language model family, the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models run on the cloud and provide results to your Android device. It...
Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy” (arstechnica.com)
Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make (arstechnica.com)
The AirPods Pro “could have been easily made repairable with minimal effort.”
The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)
Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter....
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2437896...
Google says it will start downranking non-tablet apps in the Play Store (arstechnica.com)
Pandemic deaths in Ohio and Florida show partisan divide after vaccine rollout (arstechnica.com)
The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.
Twitter took @x handle from longtime user and only offered him “some merch” (arstechnica.com)
Hwang confirmed to Ars today that “there was no financial compensation” offered to him. The company offered “to switch the @x account and its history/followers etc to a new handle once I select one that is available,” Hwang told us. “They also offered some merch and to meet with the management team as well.”
Seven major automakers to build EV charging network with 30,000 chargers (arstechnica.com)
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007 (arstechnica.com)
Twitter took Gene X Hwang's username and only offered him “some merch.”
How developers will test their apps before Vision Pro launches (arstechnica.com)
Apple opened up access to three ways to test apps on real hardware.
How developers will test their apps before Vision Pro launches (arstechnica.com)
AlmaLinux says Red Hat source changes won’t kill its RHEL-compatible distro (arstechnica.com)
Red Hat made being a 1:1 clone hard. So AlmaLinux is pivoting and speeding up.
Analysis: Pandemic deaths in Ohio and Florida show partisan divide after vaccine rollout (arstechnica.com)
The death gap between Democrats and Republicans was larger in counties with lower vaccination rates.
FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.