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    Toyota gives the new 2024 Tacoma pickup truck some extra off-road chops

    hilux,maybe? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKpNz3Azr1k
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    How Huawei made a cutting-edge chip in China and surprised the US

    there is nothing in the pipeline that will replace silicon anytime soon - they keep working around the issues withe new processes, plus enhanced dopants by the time it does happen, it will take 20x the Chinese gdp to even keep-up with the rest of the worlds way-advancement research facilities...
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    Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

    so does this also bypass the vaunted tpm 2.0 on boot-up? wow,thanks windows eleventy for having an "uncrackabe but easily bypassed" security feature
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    After a chaotic three years, GPU sales are starting to look normal-ish again

    AI is the new hotness - as long as you can be satisfied with the 128-bit Ada cards, you'll be fine! Even the 4060 ti 16gb cards are all msrp on amazon (and its dropped 50 bucks)...
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    After a chaotic three years, GPU sales are starting to look normal-ish again

    the other thing that helped cool-down the markets was the return of Maxwell-era 128-bit busses. with the 4060 and ti nobody pining for AI or crypto is going to drop 300 for that, and yet, the smart cache design is even more amazing than AMD at squeezing gaming performance out of such a paltry...
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    Ultrawide monitors remind us there’s still much to learn about OLED burn-in

    using dark mode with most websites i use configured the same full-screen browsing plus black wallpaper plus black screensaver set two minutes, plus mixed full-screen game and videi video and browsing/editing my b7 has zero burn-in with all of the improvements lg has made over the years plus...
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    Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says

    this s why brands like geely and byd are the best-selling cars worldwide and why Tesla is pushing for model 2, and several Japanese makers promised all sorts of small/convertibles at the last Tokyo mobility fair europ continues to overprice ther offerings
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    How Huawei made a cutting-edge chip in China and surprised the US

    maybe duv, but not euv anytime soon it takes massive tool manufacturing accuracy and an entire industry of fields-specific embedded software engineers to make an advanced industry like asml work, which is why most big fabs outsource tools - good luck supporting that without locking-down an...
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    Automakers may get leeway with stricter EV tax credit sourcing rules

    its better than capping it at a sales THRESHOLD this gives companies willing to s;lowly build-up infrastructure THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAINTAIN THESE CREDITS, (manufacturing percentages go up if you still wan t the same discount three years from now) or newly-capitalized com,panes will have...
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    Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive

    its because you know its shit, and its still twice the price of a Geely https://evcompare.io/cars/geely/geely-%E5%B8%9D%E8%B1%AA-gse-500/
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    Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive

    its called Geely, and that's part of the reason Tesla has been cost-cutting so aggressively with Highlander and model 2 in the pipeline! because of the small roads in Europe, the tiny eevs are even easier to sell than in the us, and they cost half half a french Ev - vw cars group is screwed...
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    Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive

    outside EU, thew hits from the combination of poor quality from Mexico, plus the ass-covering that was "green diesel" combined to make this a dead brand in North America even before the court-ordered EA build-out they fixed the manufacturing qual;ity around 2015, but its still pointless if...
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    Mummified baboons point to the direction of the fabled land of Punt

    true, but the changing environment has been the cause of many civilization downfalls - just look at how all the infrastructure protected the Mon empire - it was too expensive to maintain the waterways once the rains became less consistent there are thousands of other garden cities abandoned...
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    Once valued at $47 billion, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy

    Uber was successful because it had a good idea: bypass all the regional taxi companies, with the myriad layers of local taxi cab monopolies, along with various layers of regional re-brands (see: super shuttle, and their ilk!) instead, you get a couple major apps,, load-based pricing, and...
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    This electric school bus has a range of up to 300 miles

    No, its iron phosphate, so there is no range reduction from overzealous charging. also, zero battery fires. my rural school loop back in the 1980s in Elroy , TX would have easily been handled by this (start at farms, pass Elroy, pass though smith., ends at high school / baty/ hill crest/pop.)...
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    Intel’s CEO doesn’t seem worried about Arm chips from Qualcomm, Nvidia, or AMD

    no, it because nobody at intel has any long-term plan; they pushed the fastest arm core before iPhone ate their lunch , ,and then took another decade before they gave atom the design attention it deserved they just do9ont care about the l.ow-end (and as long as they sell x64,arm will always...
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    Intel’s CEO doesn’t seem worried about Arm chips from Qualcomm, Nvidia, or AMD

    and anyone painting risc5 as somehow competitive ton qualcom or apple is missing the point - arm Linux already has WAY TOO MUCH DEVELOPER INFRASTRUCTURE,SO THEWS NOT GOING TOBE ANOTHER UPSET FROM ANOTHER COPY
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    Honda cancels plan for cheap electric vehicles, ending collaboration with GM

    AND YOU'D BE SURPRISED HOW MANY RENTAL BOATS YOU CAN FIND OUT THERE: YOU CAN RENT ANYTHING from a party palace riverboat to a harbor boat for scuba in any major destination to a deep-sea ocean trawler for fishing! my sister got married on a riverboat
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    Honda cancels plan for cheap electric vehicles, ending collaboration with GM

    yeah when the rest of the market has moved on to cost-optimized iron phosphate batteries, gm's bet n ultium seems even stupider they always make key mistakes like this that cost them massive amount of ,money (BOLT, ANDROID AND IOS CUTS, AND NOW THESE CELL NOBODY ELSE WILL BE USING!) and the...
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    BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, and Lexus are switching EV plugs

    You're not looking very hard - but larger cities will get serviced much earlier, prior to IRA funds NYC: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2021/plan-create-largest-municipal-electric-vehicle-charging-networks-september-08-2021.shtml Boston...