For a month, teams have been practicing setups, driving strategy, and building (or in some cases rebuilding) their chances of conquering the 156-turn, 12.42-mile Pikes Peak mountain in Colorado. This is easily the craziest motorsports event left in America—more dangerous than the World Rally Championship and with the spirit of a 24-hour endurance race. Teams, […]
Google has delayed its Privacy Sandbox plan for phasing out third-party cookies in its Chrome browser until mid-2023 over a three-month period. Google proposed its Privacy Sandbox in 2019, with the broad goal to enable tracking of users by cohorts rather than individually to address privacy concerns about users being tracked online by marketers. It […]
Overview For those shopping for something that looks a bit different from the average compact crossover, the 2022 GMC Terrain’s truck-ish appearance may prove eye catching. But upon closer inspection, neither its features nor price propel it to the top of its class. All models are powered by a tepid turbocharged four-cylinder engine and, unlike […]
In Chefornak, a Yu’pik village near the western coast of Alaska, the water is getting closer. The thick ground, once frozen solid, is thawing. The village preschool, its blue paint peeling, sits precariously on wooden stilts in spongy marsh between a river and a creek. Storms are growing stronger. At high tide these days, water […]
Three men have been jailed for violent crimes conducted against victims found through Grindr. Michael Atkinson, Pablo Ceniceros-Deleon, and Daryl Henry, 28, 21, and 24-years-old, respectively, deliberately targeted men believed to be homosexual in what the US Department of Justice (DoJ) calls “bias-motivated violence.” Grinder is a social networking and dating app for the LBTQI […]
Ben Summerell-Youde/Fox SyndicationCar and Driver Japanese website Spyder7 reports that Lexus is working on its own version of the new Subaru BRZ and Toyota GR86 called the UC. It’s rumored to use the same 228-hp 2.4-liter flat-four as the new Toyobaru rear-wheel-drive sports cars, but with a hybrid drivetrain making more power. Lexus declined to […]
For years, ARM has been agitating the market to place its architecture in an increasing proportion of data center sales, and it has had some success. But the incumbent — primarily Intel, but x86 in general — has remained entrenched for a variety of reasons. Now, however, shifts in markets, technologies and business alliances are changing […]
Corvette versus Porsche 911. Camaro versus Mustang. Camry and Accord. The major automotive rivalries seem like they’ve always existed, but every grudge has a genesis story. As EVs become more common, new rivalries are beginning to emerge. Tesla would like you to think that all other electric vehicles are inferior to its offerings, and the […]
It could look like this. Or not. Screenshot by ZDNet Logic has its limits. more Technically Incorrect If the whole world operated on a logical basis, it would surely be the dullest place. Why, then, does everyone assume that the next iPhone will be called iPhone 13? Is it because the annual release of iPhones […]
From the June 2021 issue of Car and Driver. Like many great adventure stories, the first successful American cross-country car trip began with a bet. After listening to a bunch of stuffy elites in a San Francisco clubhouse declare automobiles a passing fad and that they were good only for local trips, Horatio Nelson Jackson […]