Pam Lunn is not impressed by the environmental credentials of the all-electric version of the supersized pickup truck Electric vehicles are not climate-friendly, but merely somewhat less climate-unfriendly than petrol or diesel ones. There are carbon emissions from manufacturing the vehicle, and from generating electricity to charge the battery. The wider environmental damage includes pollution …
Good combination of speed, long battery life, rapid charging, svelte design and solid camera at a reasonable price The latest high-end smartphone from OnePlus is a top-spec device with a good combination of aesthetics and performance, and a price that undercuts rivals. Just don’t sit on it. The 10 Pro costs from £799 ($899), which …
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Clip prompts amusement online as car stops, then drives across an intersection, leaving police behind A video recently posted online shows what happens when police try to apprehend an autonomous vehicle – only to find nobody inside. Police in San Francisco stopped a vehicle operated by Cruise, an autonomous car company backed by General Motors, …
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As Sydney’s ‘last, best’ video shop closes, what’s the future for physical media in Australia, and for the communities who collect them? We’ve love to hear about your film collections, big or small. Share them in the comments below In 2015, between dusty rows of shelves in a small op-shop somewhere in suburban Sydney, I …
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Analysis: Week of activity from tech billionaire supports platform chief’s prediction of disruptions ahead Twitter’s chief executive knows this will not be the end of it. Announcing that Elon Musk will not join the company’s board, Parag Agrawal wrote: “There will be distractions ahead.” Interference is hard to avoid when one of your largest shareholders …
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From Dalí’s eerie streetscape to the fearful little crewmates in Among Us, our critics recommend culture for the irrationally threatened The world may be celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Godfather right now, but for paranoia aficionados, the biggest Francis Ford Coppola semi-centennial is still two years off. The Conversation came between the first two …
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Tango Gameworks’ developers spent years imagining a Tokyo cleared by a terrible event – then lockdown emptied the streets, bringing an uncanny reality to their paranormal visions Making games is a long old road – five years or more, often, from conception to actual release – and when Kenji Kimura was stuck for ideas on …
Nintendo Switch; HAL Laboratories/NintendoOvergrown theme parks feature in this kid-friendly, cinematic romp through a cutesy wasteland As I start this latest cutesy adventure with the adorable pink blob Kirby, I’ve just returned from a journey of my own – and with an unwelcome stowaway, in the form of whatever variant of Covid I picked up …
As a format it’s slow, encourages hype, and is difficult to correct. A radical overhaul of publishing could make science better When was the last time you saw a scientific paper? A physical one, I mean. An older academic in my previous university department used to keep all his scientific journals in recycled cornflakes boxes. …
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Speedcam Anywhere allows anyone to submit evidence of drivers speeding The developers of a new app that uses AI to estimate the speed of a passing car say they have been forced into anonymity by the vicious response from drivers. The app, Speedcam Anywhere, is the product of a team of AI scientists with backgrounds …
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