Everyone tells you how tired you’ll be with a newborn, but take it from someone with a 3-month-old: It’s more than you can anticipate before having kids, unless you were previously an ultramarathoner and/or offshore oil rig worker. When you’re putting your freshly baked human into a car seat, stroller, or generally taking it anywhere … Read more
April 22, 2013: The world gets its first Apple car. Well, kind of. In reality, the iBeetle is a collaboration with German automaker Volkswagen that offers a car “stylistically linked” to Apple. This means Apple-inspired colors, a built-in docking station for your iPhone, and a special app that lets you control the car’s features. The … Read more
Infotainment screens inside cars are becoming bigger each year, and most people are using Android Auto or Apple CarPlay for most of their navigation and music playback needs. However, those platforms are too simple for some tasks, and if you want to get real work done on your car’s huge screen, you should consider an … Read more
Some Apple employees who worked on Apple Car and micro LED projects are being laid off. Photo: Laurenz Heymann/Unsplash Following the shutdown of the Apple Car project, the Cupertino giant is laying off more than 600 employees. Many affected employees worked on developing micro LED displays for the Apple Watch and future Apple products. The … Read more
Apple this week filed a required notice with the state of California, confirming plans to permanently lay off more than 600 employees. Under California law, employers must give employees and state representatives a 60-day notice before a mass layoff event. The employees listed are located in several Apple-occupied buildings around Santa Clara, California, which is … Read more
Last year, Polestar announced its most practical EV yet in the Polestar 4. But this week, during the vehicle’s North American debut at the New York International Auto Show, we finally got an official launch price and a chance to check out its most controversial feature. Positioned as a slightly smaller and more affordable version … Read more
MediaTek has announced that it has partnered with Nvidia to make four new automotive chips for connected and self-driving cards. The company’s Dimensity Auto Cockpit series chips will compete with automotive chips from Qualcomm and Samsung. MediaTek Dimensity Auto Cockpit chips to compete with Samsung’s Exynos Auto chips The company’s new Dimensity Auto Cockpot series has … Read more
Turn your car into an outdoor gazebo with this $309.97 pop-up tent. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals What’s keeping you from traveling? A little time in a new setting can change your whole outlook — and a unique piece of travel gear makes that possibility a lot easier. It’s called Carsule, and it’s a pop-up … Read more
A glioblastoma (green and blue, artificially coloured) grows in the frontal lobe of a person’s brain.Credit: Pr Michel Brauner, ISM/Science Photo Library Two preliminary studies suggest that next-generation engineered immune cells show promise against one of the most feared forms of cancer. A pair of papers published on 13 March, one in Nature Medicine1 and … Read more
An Apple Car was never officially on the way, but a couple of weeks ago we heard that Apple had decided to abandon the project. Now we’ve got a few more details about what the Apple Car was looking like in the early stages of its development. As per Mark Gurman in his Power On … Read more