The changes will initially affect the Model Y (pictured) and the Model 3 | Mark Leong for The Washington Post via Getty Images Tesla has announced it’s phasing out its cars’ use of ultrasonic sensors (USS) to sense objects in the world around them. It’s part of the company’s shift towards its camera-only Tesla Vision…
Photo by Shinichiro Ichimura on Unsplash We went to Las Vegas this weekend to visit my mom. The drive from our house in Los Angeles to Las Vegas takes just under five hours, unless you’re my mom, aka Lead Foot Linda, who was the inspiration for the Bandit in Smokey and the Bandit. With me…
‘Rapid Rails’ appeared in the June 1992 issue of Popular Science. Popular Science From cities in the sky to robot butlers, futuristic visions fill the history of PopSci. In the Are we there yet? column we check in on progress towards our most ambitious promises. Read the series and explore all our 150th anniversary coverage here. In just the…
TikTok has banned a Match.com advert for negative gender stereotypes, after a complaint was made to UK-based advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The video portrayed a heterosexual couple in their home, and was titled “Things that make him realise I’m a keeper”. It then went on to show the woman doing all sorts…
It’s hard to believe Google has been making its own in-house Android phones for more than six years now, but here we are with the Pixel 7 almost upon us. The bad news is that you still have to wait for Google to do a whole livestream to show off the phone in all its…
Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story came very close to stealing one of Stranger Things season 4’s crowns, according to new Netflix data. Per the streaming giant’s latest round-up of its Top 10 TV show list, the deeply disturbing drama series amassed nearly 300 million hours viewed in its second week on Netflix. That makes it…
Overwatch 2, the recently-launched highly-anticipated sequel to Blizzard’s team shooter game, started its journey with – a major distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. According to multiple media reports, many Overwatch 2 players wanting to give it a shot were met with a message saying “Game server connection failed…retrying”. While it was first thought the…
If you currently own a Google Pixel 4 or a Pixel 4 XL, then now might be the time to upgrade, as Google is rolling out its October 2022 update to these phones – as well as all subsequent models, including the Pixel 6 – and this is the final update the Pixel 4 and…
At long last, the Disney Plus app on PS5 has been upgraded to support 4K HDR streaming. Accessible via the media tab, you’ll be able to enjoy compatible Disney content, which includes Marvel movies and Star Wars TV shows, in Ultra HD and HDR10 through Sony’s console once you’ve updated the Disney Plus app to…
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 can achieve over 500 frames per second (fps) in Overwatch 2 at 1440p resolution, a ridiculously fluid level of gameplay – with a notable caveat we’ll come back to later on the monitor front – Team Green itself has told us. To be precise, Nvidia’s own benchmarking shows the shooter (which was…