When the fires are out, they will leave behind a lot of toxic waste to clean up. That does not include vehicles from other brands. Tesla publishes guides for fire departments that instruct them on how to extinguish fires from its vehicles. California is the biggest electric car market in the country, and a lot of them have likely burned in recent LA wildfires.Anadolu/Getty They come with contradictions. But the scale of this event, and the hazards, are magnitudes larger....

I wondered whyAndroid Intelligencewas polling people on whether or not they use Androids split-screen. That means using three apps side, by side, by side. What more could you want? © Kyle Barr / Gizmodo This suggests that Google is indeed working on implementing support for three-way split-screen multitasking in Android 16. This is the first time Android would have three-apps-in-one baked directly into the source code. Other manufacturers figured it out on their own....

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Update: January 16, 7:56 a.m. ET: Blue Origins New Glenn rocket blasted off this morning at 2:03 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during its inaugural launch, January 16, 2025.C&J Images Update: January 14, 10:44 a.m. ET: Blue Origin isnow targetinga three-hour launch window that opens at 1:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, January 16. Theyll eventually get this thing off the ground....

There are lots of weird and wonderful things in Caretaker. Much of the delight in what makes Caretaker work as a pilot iscentered around Mulgrew. Its a completely absurd one, one of many amongVoyagers notable quotables. © Paramount Or more specifically, one of their subsects, the Kazon-Ogla. Who are the Kazon-Ogla!? Its not a funny line. Its a completely normal line. Its a completely normal reaction to Janeway realizing Neelix has gamed them....

Thefirst season ofStar Wars: Skeleton Crewended on a hopeful note butnot a particularly clean one. Will there be a season two? However, the showrunners also said viewership on each episode continued to increase. Sit down and pay attention. It’s time to talk Skeleton Crew spoilers.Image: Lucasfilm How did theOnyx Cinderbecome buried on At Attin in the first place? The inciting incident for all ofSkeleton Crewis that the kids find a spaceship hidden underground on At Attin....

Apple is making changes to its AI-powered notification summaries following complaints. Apple Intelligence has been largelyunderwhelmingsince launching last year to much fanfare by executives. But the fact that it cannot get basic summaries right does not inspire confidence. Apple is making changes to its AI-based notification summaries following complaints.Apple/YouTube Maybe work on the basics first? Half-baked services that are constantly in beta and cause more nuisance than they are worth....

The researchers say their gear has now accomplished a new level of artificial touch. But theres much more that goes into feeling something than just those two aspects. Without these rich sensations, artificial touch will remain highly impoverished, Valle told Gizmodo. An illustration of the team’s technology, which combines a bionic limb with brain implants to reproduce more complex sensations of touch.© Chalmers University of Technology/Boid/ David Ljungberg The researchers recruited two people with spinal cord injuries for their experiments....

Gizmodo:Timekettle has been making waves with its innovative translator devices. What drives the success of Timekettle? Leal Tian:Our core belief is simple: communication is more than just translation. © Timekettle Our slogan,Communication is connectionreally embodies that philosophy. Leal Tian:Our focus is to make technology invisible. For example, with our Wearable Translator series, users dont feel like theyre using a unit. Leal Tian, founder and CEO of Timekettle © Timekettle They maintain natural eye contact, use body language, and truly connect....

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Here is how he describes making the new cable: I literally got so frustrated … Claiming a cable is uncuttable is, unfortunately, asking for trouble. Someone is going to view that as a challenge. ChargePoint says it has developed a charging cable for electric cars that is “uncuttable.“Sean Gallup/Getty That should do much of the work dissuading would-be thieves. Passersby in a shopping mall parking lot are going to notice quickly if that alarm starts going off....

What was your guiding principle for directingDan Da Dan? io9: What has been your favorite sequence to animate forDan Da Dan, and why? Yamashiro:The crab chase scene in episode four. © Crunchyroll/Science Saru Theyre in perfect harmony for the first time, completing the buddy unit. Theres a real catharsis in that drama, and it links really well with the energy on screen. By the way, before they take off, Okarun takes Momos hand, and helps her stand up....

I complained that there werent enough buttons in cars anymore, but this isnt exactly what I meant. Its a bonafide, why not? John had to design custom circuit boards for this project to bridge the CAN system and the Game Boy. A screenshot from Sutley’s YouTube video shows the Game Boy hack.© YouTube / John Sutley The final product is extraordinarily unpolished. It looks like a hackneyed machine bursting out of its seams with the circuit board entirely exposed....