E.P.A. to Sharply Limit Powerful Greenhouse Gases
The Biden administration is moving quickly to limit hydrofluorocarbons, the Earth-warming chemicals used in air-conditioning and refrigeration. Source link
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Microsoft drops Windows 10X before it ever launched
Credit: ZDNet Microsoft won’t be bringing its Windows 10X operating system variant to market anytime soon, if ever. Microsoft has put Windows 10X on the back burner according to a post on Petri.com by Brad Sams on May 7. Windows 10X was supposed to be Microsoft’s answer to Chrome OS — a simpler Windows 10 […]
Porsche Boxster EV Concept Could Be Coming Soon
Illustration by Christian SchulteCar and Driver Porsche says it is working on releasing a Boxster EV concept. We’re not sure when it or the production version will arrive, but they’ll use a new, not-yet-announced electric platform. The new Macan EV will be sold alongside the gasoline-powered model, so we think the next-generation Boxster and Cayman […]
China Is Set to Rule Electric Car Production
ZHAOQING, China — Xpeng Motors, a Chinese electric car start-up, recently opened a large assembly plant in southeastern China and is building a matching factory nearby. It has announced plans for a third. Another Chinese electric car company, Nio, has opened one large factory in central China and is preparing to build a second a […]
Would you install iPhone apps from a third-party iOS store?
There’s pressure — both legal and otherwise — on Apple to open up iOS and iPadOS to third-party app stores, freeing both customers and developers from Apple’s iron grip. But would you buy apps from a third-party app store? As I see it, there are pros and cons, and when it comes to the end […]
View Photos of the Porsche Macan EV Prototype
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Biden Promises to ‘Build Back Better.’ Some Climate Experts See Trouble.
When President Biden arrived in Lake Charles, La., on Thursday to push for spending trillions of dollars on infrastructure nationwide, plywood still covered windows broken from back-to-back hurricanes that devastated the city last summer. “I promise you, we’re going to build back better,” Mr. Biden said, talking about the need to act as climate change […]
A disgraceful Starbucks order showed how much worse people are online (Or did it?)
Who’d actually drink that? Or, perhaps, eat it? Screenshot by ZDNet The frothing could likely be seen from outer space. Here was a Starbucks order that was so nauseatingly excessive, so self-regarding and so disregarding of the plight of the barista that the web took one look and cried out. Should you have missed this […]
Making Stock Car Racing Look Stock, Tiny Vans
If you think redesigning a BMW grille sends shock waves through the car community, try redesigning a NASCAR race car. The big motorsports news this week is stock car racing’s debut of the seventh-generation Cup car platform. The “Next Gen” NASCAR racer follows the philosophy of its predecessor—the unimaginatively titled “Gen 6” design—to make the […]
Lithium Mining Projects May Not Be Green Friendly
Atop a long-dormant volcano in northern Nevada, workers are preparing to start blasting and digging out a giant pit that will serve as the first new large-scale lithium mine in the United States in more than a decade — a new domestic supply of an essential ingredient in electric car batteries and renewable energy. The […]