Centuries before the Inca, Peru’s wealthy imported parrots from afar

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated ...

HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

In 2023, the Int’l ITC wrote a letter to the GEC requesting that the GEC revoke at least 101 of HP’s printers from the ...

The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker’s Windows network”

There are reasons to believe that the attack against Stryker may not have fit this precise pattern. For one, Stryker has said ...

Facing heavy losses, Honda cancels its three US-made electric vehicles

Only now, they won’t. Earlier today, Honda announced that it’s facing heavy losses for the financial year: between $5.1 billion and $7 billion (820 billion–1.12 trillion yen). To help stanch the flow, ...

Lucid announces midsize EV platform, says profitability lies with SUVs

Lucid’s entry into the highly competitive, high-volume midsize SUV market will be key to achieving profitability, the company ...

How I streamed my off-road Miata race using Starlink and StarStream

All that is changing with the advent of StarStream, a video and content streaming service that can be used with Starlink, the low-Earth-orbit satellite Internet system that has changed the way ...

Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense

Last month, the New York Attorney General (NYAG) brought a lawsuit against Valve accusing the company of promoting “illegal ...

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...
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Mikrotik RouterOS vs OPNsense vs PFsense

So, I'm getting ready to do a home network build out from scratch, and I'm seeking some opinions, specifically on routers/firewalls. I've used Opnsense and PFsense in the past, and am considering ...
Ars Technica

Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, “robbing them blind”

Newly unsealed documents show that a Live Nation regional director boasted of gouging ticket buyers and “robbing them blind” with fees for ancillary services such as slight upgrades to parking. Live ...

Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

Google Maps is one of the company’s core products, which means it hasn’t escaped the shift to Gemini. There will be more opportunities to converse with a robot in Google Maps starting today, but there ...

Rivian reveals pricing and trim details for its R2 SUV

The R2 SUV is an attractive thing, sharing a lot of its looks with the larger three-row R1S, both inside and out. And a rather clever one, too; Volkswagen Group invested $5 billion in Rivian ...