Tesla’s new Driver Drowsiness Warning feature counts yawns and blinks
Tesla is now attempting to gauge the tiredness of its drivers through a new feature rolling out called “Driver Drowsiness Warning.” It uses the cabin-facing [view more]
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BMW becomes the latest car maker to adopt Tesla’s EV charging standard
BMW’s North American EV customers should have an easier time finding charging stations in the future. The company has announced it’s adopting the North American [view more]
IRS will start piloting its free TurboTax alternative in 2024
It looks like the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) truly was working on a free TurboTax alternative like earlier reports had claimed. The US tax authority [view more]
X is starting to charge new users $1 per year to send tweets
After weeks of speculation, X has confirmed its plans to charge new users for the service previously known as Twitter. The company shared details about [view more]
X now requires community fact checks to include sources
X is making a significant change to its crowd-soruced fact checking tool in an attempt to stem the flow of misinformation on its platform. The [view more]
Max Evry on his oral history of David Lynch’s Dune
We still have months to wait before Dune: Part Two hits theaters, so what better time to reminisce about David Lynch’s intriguing adaptation of Frank [view more]
Elgato’s new teleprompter is designed for streamers
Politicians and awkward SNL hosts have long-relied on the humble teleprompter to get their lines out, and now there’s a device that lets the rest [view more]
A $199 portable recording studio worth more than its price tag
Austrian Audio is not exactly a household name. It was formed in 2017 following the closure of AKG’s offices in Vienna. And it’s mostly stuck [view more]
Google rolls out more accessibility features for Maps, Search and Assistant
Google has a string of accessibility updates it’s rolling out for Maps, Search and Assistant, as well as greater availability of some camera-based Pixel features. [view more]
YouTube is rolling out a new ‘You’ section as part of a substantial update
YouTube’s rolling out a three dozen in total. Some of these tools are for the web app, while others are for the smartphone app and [view more]