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Forward-looking: Toyota is recreating the experience of driving a car with a manual transmission in its EVs complete with the sensation of stalling if there isn’t enough throttle. It is part of the carmaker’s array of futuristic technologies for its electric vehicles. A recently-published patent application from Toyota shows the details of the virtual manual […]

Bottom line: There are other products on the market that can double as both a 3D printer and a laser engraver that don’t have the riskiness inherent in a Kickstarter campaign. But Lotmaxx sets itself apart by developing a product that also has stellar specs as well as a camera system and RGB lighting. Lotmaxx

WTF?! Pro-Russian propaganda campaigns are nothing new, but this is the first one we’ve heard of that recruited Hollywood stars such as Elijah Wood without their knowledge. The actors did not know that their clips, created on platforms like Cameo, would be edited to falsely depict Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a drug addict. Microsoft

Why it matters: Recent developments make it clear that iMessage won’t come to non-Apple devices for the foreseeable future. The Cupertino giant’s messaging service has dodged looming European regulations, and two third-party attempts to circumvent iMessage’s Apple exclusivity have failed. However, Android phones sending messages to iPhones will soon no longer be stuck with SMS.

Bottom line: Leaked benchmarks for Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake processor have arrived, bringing with them plenty of interest. Unfortunately for Team Blue, they reveal some underwhelming results. While the chip does display potential with its integrated graphics capabilities, aspects such as CPU performance and battery life are causing concern, particularly when

Why it matters: A side-channel attack called SLAM could exploit vulnerabilities in Intel, Arm and AMD chips that are under development, researchers have found. So far, the chip makers say their systems have enough protection against SLAM, but this is the first transient execution attack targeting future CPUs and it is unclear how well the

A hot potato: It is hard to say whether Google was being deliberately deceptive but there are billions of dollars at stake in the race to be No. 1 in generative AI. Anything that smacks of being second-best in this race will hurt. Unfortunately for the tech giant, that could include a demonstration video perceived

What just happened? The 2023 Game Awards took place a few hours ago, marking the end of one of the best years for video games in recent memory. As is customary, the event was packed with trailers and news, the best of which we’ve gathered together here. It should come as no surprise that the

Why it matters: Even though the tech industry has been giving a lot of attention to semiconductors recently, most of it has been focused on the big ones: GPUs, CPUs and now NPUs. Often lost in the shuffle are chips based on other types of architectures, such as FPGAs. These types of devices typically perform

A hot potato: Those who were around when the internet really started to take off in the 1990s had different ideas of what it would become. For Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the expectation was that it would make the world a more rational and factual place. What he never foresaw was it becoming a meeting