Thomas Ricker

“We noticed that there have been many media reports about security incidents concerning Apple phones,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning.

Car and Driver noticed that the blue oval emblem found on the new 2024 Ford F-150 has been redesigned. The slightly larger white script and removal of the outer chrome ring are subtle changes, but significant when placed on America’s bestselling vehicle since, well, forever.

The pledge to the White House includes a promise to develop technology to identify AI-generated images and share regular safety data with the government and academics. Today, Adobe, Nvidia, IBM, Palantir, Stability, Salesforce, Cohere, and Scale join OpenAI, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Inflection in making the pledge.

Dashcam footage of a pre-production model shows a plastic wheel cover being flung into busy highway traffic. Concerning for a company plagued by initial quality issues and the first production Cybertruck deliveries expected any day now.

If your living room looks anything like this photo then you can afford LG’s new 118-inch Magnit TV, now available to buy in the US for $237,000 — a discount off the slightly larger 130-inch MicroLED TV LG launched last year for $300,000. Bargain!

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If that’s what you’re looking for in your future EV then the Mercedes-Benz CLA Class is for you... you know, if it wasn’t just a concept. It’s got LED light bars, a massive glass roof, “vegan silk-like fabric,” air vents integrate into the edge-to-edge dashboard display, and lots of ornamental stars.

The Vision Neue Klasse concept is a preview of what’s coming for new BMWs, both outside and in. A new Panoramic Vision display extends across the entire width of the windscreen allowing both the driver and front passenger to interact with it, and drivers can move content from the Central Display to the Panoramic Vision with a gesture. “This innovation will complement the enhanced BMW Head-Up Display in the production models of the Neue Klasse,” says BMW.

The Kirin 9000s chip made by SMIC in China inside the new Mate 60 Pro is still a few generations behind what TSMC is producing for current iPhones (4nm), expected to move to 3nm next week. And without access to advanced machines from ASML it’s going to be very hard for China to advance efforts further.