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Umar Shakir

Umar Shakir

Former News Writer

Former News Writer

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    Umar Shakir
    Apple’s Space Black aluminum took ‘a lot of R&D for the sake of aesthetics.’

    iFixit did some digging on the new MacBook Pro and found that Apple’s anodization and dying process must have taken “a huge amount of effort, and trial and error,” according to metallurgist David Niebuhr.

    Under a microscope, Space Black had higher peaks and lower valleys from an etching process than Space Gray. It still shows light fingerprints, but iFixit gives Apple an “A-for-effort.”

    Umar Shakir
    Umar Shakir
    Lucid Air can now be used as a portable battery bank for Tesla.

    The automaker’s electric luxury sedan works with a new vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) adapter called RangeXchange that can charge other EVs at a rate of up to 9.6 kW — delivering 24 to 40 miles of range per hour of charge. Owners can enable the bi-directional charging feature through a new OTA software update.

    White Lucid Air with cable connecting between it and a white Tesla
    A Tesla Model 3 charges off of a Lucid Air EV.
    Image: Lucid
    Umar Shakir
    Umar Shakir
    The Zelda movie director’s link to the past.

    This week Wes Ball, director of the Maze Runner films, was bestowed with the honor of helming a live-action The Legend of Zelda movie.

    As noted by Nintendo fans and reported by Variety, in 2010 Ball had put it out in the universe that he “could never even hope” to direct a movie based on Zelda. He was not met with a cruel fate.