Overview As Audi’s top model, the R8 sports car boasts a howling 602-hp V-10 engine just behind its snug two-seat cabin. It shares a lot with the Lamborghini Huracán, but the R8 is less flamboyantly styled. It’s also less engaging to drive, but buyers seeking a super car that they can drive daily may find […]
Because it is privately held, Colonial is under less pressure than a publicly traded company might be to reveal details. But as the custodian of a major piece of the nation’s cyberinfrastructure, the company is bound to come under scrutiny over the quality of its protections and its transparency about how it responded to the […]
One can be forgiven for thinking that everyone in the world is adopting sophisticated, next-gen technologies such as artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, and their company is falling woefully behind. While it’s more the case of everyone trying to find their way with still yet-to-be-fully-understood technologies, this fear of falling behind is real, and is […]
The other day, Ford issued a press release about the 2021 Bronco. It concerned the interior auxiliary switches—which we already knew about—and included fascinating new details, such as the amperage ratings of respective circuits and the things they might run (probably lights, possibly overhead bullhorn, most likely not fog machine). Obviously Ford is running out […]
HOUSTON — The shutdown on Friday of the largest petroleum pipeline between Texas and New York after a ransomware attack has had little immediate impact on supplies of gasoline, diesel or jet fuel. But some energy analysts warned that a prolonged suspension could raise prices at the pump along the East Coast. Nationwide, the AAA […]
On Wednesday, data integrity company Precisely announced a definitive agreement to acquire Infogix, a data governance, data catalog, and data quality vendor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Precisely, recently acquired by private equity concerns Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates, and which one year ago rebranded from its decades-old name, Syncsort, intends to […]
Martin Tengler, Tokyo-based lead hydrogen analyst for BloombergNEF, likes to talk about how we’re on the cusp of at least the fourth pro-hydrogen near-frenzy since 1974. That’s the year Road & Track touted “Hydrogen: New & Clean Fuel for the Future” on its March cover. They probably didn’t mean more than 45 years in the […]
A victory, of sorts. Screenshot by ZDNet It doesn’t seem long ago that I was marveling at Google‘s sense of humor. more Technically Incorrect Somehow, the company had found more and more entertaining ways of encouraging you to switch to its Pixel phones. Here, recently, was a mesmerizing ad that wanted you to disappear into […]
Not all subcompact crossovers and SUVs sit at the bottom of the automotive food chain. Those from the luxury segment are nicer and pricier than their mainstream counterparts and hail from legitimate luxury makes. Want a fancy badge, a tall seating position, and hatchback utility for not a lot of money? Many of these models […]
Brazil’s right-wing populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, scorned public health guidance and insisted that lockdowns and mobility restrictions would be a bigger threat to the country’s weak economy. Brazil now has one of the world’s highest death tolls and its economy is in tatters. Updated May 9, 2021, 9:46 a.m. ET India’s right-wing populist prime minister, […]