Save the date: Disney has blocked the calendar until 2028 and added a bunch of mysterious Marvel movies, cryptic Pixar movies, and a bunch of “Untitled Disney” movies. In fact, Disney has announced that one of these mysterious untitled movies will be released this year. The first “Untitled Disney” will hit theaters on December 1, … Read more
The second-generation HomePod is a follow-up to Apple’s original device from 2018, and while it mimics the design of the original (read: discontinued) model, some major hardware improvements make Apple’s forthcoming automation hub worth a look. The biggest and perhaps most obvious upgrade to the new HomePod is the Thread support and Matter compatibility, which … Read more
This is the current edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that gives a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Brazilians turn to Instagram to identify far-right rioters In the hours after far-right insurgents vandalized government buildings in Brazil’s capital on Sunday, January 8, a new account appeared on Instagram. … Read more
CircleCi, a software company whose products are popular with developers and software engineers, confirmed that some customers’ data was stolen in a data breach last month. The company said in a detailed blog post Friday that it identified the intruder’s first entry point as an employee’s laptop compromised with malware, enabling the theft of session … Read more
Asia experienced its second warmest year on record. On April 30, temperatures hit 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Jacobabad, Pakistan — unusually early for the region. As summer arrived, heat waves killed 50,000 people in the European Union in July alone, and as vegetation dried out, fires broke out in London and burned large parts of … Read more
Am Clean / 9to5Google: Nothing Phone (1) is rolling out in the US via a $299 “beta” membership, offered through June 2023, but the company says the phone “may not work with all US carriers”— Following an earlier teaser, the Nothing Phone (1) is now officially on its way to the United States…
At CES 2023, Disney was at the Amazon booth speaking “Hey Disney,” an upcoming Alexa Skill for Alexa devices like the Amazon Echo that will allow fans to interact with a Disney-themed voice assistant. Disney chose not to go with Mickey Mouse or a number of other iconic mascots as voice assistants, and instead went … Read more
For the first time in more than a decade, the Environmental Protection Agency was able to tighten its standard for the amount of soot allowed in the air we breathe. Today it proposed lowering the regulatory threshold for particulate matter, commonly referred to as soot. Still, some major health and environmental groups say the EPA’s … Read more
This is the current edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that gives a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for batteries Every year the world runs more and more on batteries. Electric vehicles accounted for 10% of global car sales in 2022 and are on track to … Read more
Tesla reported Monday that it delivered 405,278 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2022. While the automaker hit a record number of deliveries, it fell short of Wall Street’s expectations of about 420,000 to 425,000 units delivered. The electric vehicle company also reported total production of 439,701 vehicles in the fourth quarter. This brings Tesla’s … Read more