Enlarge / The 2024 Ford Mustang might prove more resistant to modding than any Mustang in the past. The culprit? Modern-day cybersecurity protections. (credit: Ford) People have been tinkering with and modifying vehicles since not long after the invention of the automobile. As an activity, it exploded in the wake of World War II, as…
Apple’s Community Education Initiative (CEI) has been expanded to 150 partners in 600 communities in 99 countries and regions, including all 50 states, the company announced. Launched in 2019, CEI provides access to coding, creativity, and job opportunities to students of all ages and from all backgrounds, with special focus on communities that are traditionally…
Around 10 percent of Netflix content will not be available in this new tier. Alicia Quan/Unsplash After months of hints and speculation, yesterday Netflix finally announced a course reversal on its former “no ads ever” policy. Beginning November 3, a new “Basic with Ads” subscription tier is coming to the streaming platform in the US…
Make sure you’re selecting the text that you mean to select. Jonas Leupe / Unsplash Selecting text on phones and computers is something you most likely have to do multiple times throughout the day. From pasting an address into a chat conversation to copying a quote from a webpage, being able to accurately pick out…
Deposit Photos / bennymarty Passwords are a pain. People use the same insecure passwords over and over again and yet still manage to forget them, which makes protecting accounts and data challenging for big tech companies. Even when someone does use a password that is long and complex enough to be relatively secure—because, say, they…
Sono Motors, the company building an electric vehicle that’s partially powered by the sun, debuted its flagship Sion in New York City this week as part of a multi-city tour throughout the U.S. The company aims to launch the $25,000 five-seater hatchback in Europe first — production is expected to start in the second half…
Members of the European Parliament have lodged complaints against three tech giants, Amazon, Google and Meta, with the EU’s Transparency Register — aka, the oversight process that’s intended to track lobbying activity aimed at the bloc’s lawmakers — accusing the trio of breaching the lobbying transparency rules by using smaller front organizations to press their…
Beyond Meat plans to lay off about 200 employees, or 19% of its workforce, according to a regulatory filing disclosed Friday. The company cited declining sales and said the layoffs are “based on cost-reduction initiatives intended to reduce operating expenses…and target cash flow positive operations within the second half of 2023.” Beyond Meat expects the…
SAVE 60%: As of Oct. 14, you can get a year of Peacock Premium for just $19.99 rather than its usual cost of $49.99 — that breaks down to just $1.67 per month. Is Halloween Ends actually the end of the Halloween franchise? Maybe so, maybe not — but unless you actually make your way to the…
There are plenty of ways to pay your favorite creators: by tipping them on OnlyFans, using Super Chats and Super Thanks on Youtube, or adding to their tip jars on TikTok and Tumblr. Monetization is different for every platform, and on Facebook, there’s the donation button, Facebook Stars. But when you give with Facebook Stars, you’re…