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 […]
To gain a better understanding, on a global and regional level, of what’s important to higher education students and what their challenges are with respect to learning, academic goals, and career goals, as well as staff perspectives on how to best communicate with, instruct, and prepare students, Salesforce partnered with Ipsos and The Chronicle of […]
Spencer PlattGetty Images Let’s not pretend that the bipartisan infrastructure deal announced this week will become law as proposed. Washington is too tenuous for that. But at least we have a framework that senators from both sides of the aisle have agreed to. This is a trillion-dollar plan, but it only includes around $579 billion […]
The U.S. House of Representatives this week approved and sent to the Senate a bill intended to form a pilot initiative to use artificial intelligence to vet whether consumer products are safe. H.R. 3723, the Consumer Safety Technology Act, is sponsored by Rep. Jerry McNerney (Dem.), who represents California’s 9th congressional district (including East Bay […]
Aston Martin has already debuted Aston-branded luxury condos in Miami and Los Angeles, and now it’s opening a limited number of freshly designed dwellings in a high-rise in Manhattan’s Financial District. Each of the five Aston units comes with an Aston Martin DBX in chic black. But where to park it? No Manhattan parking space […]
An influential watchdog group said on Thursday that the British government was doing far too little to carry out the ambitious pledges it had made on tackling climate change. Although the government has promised to cut its greenhouse emissions to net zero by 2050, it has failed to take interim steps — such as tax […]
(Image: file photo) Amazon Web Services is acquiring the encrypted messaging app Wickr, the company announced Friday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in 2012, Wickr’s end-to-end messaging service was one of the early pioneers of ephemeral communication, offering encrypted and disappearing messaging long before Signal took off and WhatsApp rolled out […]
Volkswagen In the decade since the Nissan Leaf became the first contemporary, mass-produced electric vehicle, plenty of automakers have jumped on the EV bandwagon with their own EVs or a plug-ins, and self-recharging hybrids like the Toyota Prius are downright commonplace. But so far no major legacy (read: not Tesla) automaker has put all its […]