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Lexus Is Developing a Manual Transmission for EVs
Lexus Is Developing a Manual Transmission for EVs

Largely thought to be clunky, outdated, and inconvenient, the stick shift is finding its way into an unlikely place: electric vehicles.

DeepMind Builds AI That Codes as Well as the Average Human Programmer
DeepMind Builds AI That Codes as Well as the Average Human Programmer

In an apparent effort to put themselves out of a job, DeepMind researchers have created an AI that can write code, and it performs surprisingly well in programming challenges.

Tesla Driver Claims Model Y Ordered Him to Pull Over, Shut Down Despite Full Charge
Tesla Driver Claims Model Y Ordered Him to Pull Over, Shut Down Despite Full Charge

This is merely the latest in a series of functional blunders on Tesla’s part.

Perseverance Rover Collects First Samples of Martian Dirt
Perseverance Rover Collects First Samples of Martian Dirt

NASA reports Perseverance has just grabbed its first sample of regolith, the ultra-fine mixture of broken rocks and dust that covers the Martian landscape.

Chrome May Eat Less of Your Memory When This New Feature Rolls Out
Chrome May Eat Less of Your Memory When This New Feature Rolls Out

Chrome has a meme-worthy reputation for greedily gobbling up memory, but some new features will make it more efficient.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Is Much Smaller Than the RTX 4080
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Is Much Smaller Than the RTX 4080

AMD finds itself in a similar position as Nvidia: Its reference GPUs are bite-sized while its partners are offering full-sized cards.

This Week in Space: NASA, SpaceX, and the Geminids
This Week in Space: NASA, SpaceX, and the Geminids

NASA reaches new heights with its Ingenuity space helicopter. Meanwhile, thanks to Starlink, the Internet itself now has in-app purchases.

Dyson’s $949 Headphones Claim to Purify the Air You Breathe
Dyson’s $949 Headphones Claim to Purify the Air You Breathe

Do you love your current headphones but wish they’d filter the air you breathe? No? Well, Dyson’s first-ever audio product will do that anyway—for a price.

Astronomers Shocked By Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst From Colliding Neutron Stars
Astronomers Shocked By Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst From Colliding Neutron Stars

Based on the power of the burst, scientists expected to find evidence of a supernova but have identified the source as a merger between two neutron stars, known as a kilonova.

New Research Explains Why Cold, Flu Viruses Are More Common in Winter
New Research Explains Why Cold, Flu Viruses Are More Common in Winter

Apparently there’s truth to the idea that we’re more susceptible to illness during the winter—but not because viruses themselves thrive in the cold.

Tesla May Bring Back Radar Autopilot Hardware, Abandon Vision-Only Approach
Tesla May Bring Back Radar Autopilot Hardware, Abandon Vision-Only Approach

After removing radar modules, Tesla now seems poised to bring them back.

Pixel 7 Gets a Big Update With Free VPN and AI-Enhanced Call Audio
Pixel 7 Gets a Big Update With Free VPN and AI-Enhanced Call Audio

It's a big patch, but you can start downloading and installing it on your phone right now.