The all-electric SUV plan was scrapped by Ford
Ford on Wednesday said that it will be “pivoting” away from its existing electric future and instead expand its other platforms. “What we’ve learned is that customers want choice…We’re providing that choice with a full lineup of EVs, hybrids, electric, gas and diesel products,” Ford’s CFO John Lawler said. He added that Ford created a 300-person EV skunkworks team in 2022.
South Korea has begun research that could open it’s research to the world
South Korean researchers are reporting that collaborations with China are becoming more difficult, particularly in technology areas. Evan Thomas, Business Development Manager at Seoul Robotics, said, “Many South Koreans view foreigners as temporary visitors rather than potential long-term residents.” A 2023 survey by Korea Institute of Public Administration showed that less than half of respondents said they accept foreign nationals as members of South Korean society.
Chandrayaan-2 APXS is at the lunar high latitude
NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter has revealed lunar multiring basins on Moon are dominated by pyroxene. It explained why lunar rocks have an isotope composition similar to those on Earth. It also revealed the Radial thickness variation in impact crater ejecta. Compositional maps of lunar polar regions derived from Kaguya Spectral Profiler and Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter data.
Susan Wojcicki died at the age of 56
Google Co-founder Susan Wojcicki passed away due to lung cancer aged 56 in Santa Clara, California. Wojcicki, who was Google’s Co-founder and CEO of YouTube, founded YouTube in 1998 at the age of 26. She later served as the CEO of YouTube until Google acquired it in 2006. Wojcicki had also served as a board member of Salesforce.com.
Susan Wojcicki was the former CEO and visionary of YouTube
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted, “The world is built by people.” “What Susan Wojcicki built in an incredibly complex environment isvery special and head and shoulders above what others created,” he added. Meanwhile, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said Wojcicki was one of the first to take maternity leave and she was one of the first to advocate for parental leave.
Dodge makes a price on its electric muscle car
Dodge has announced the first two-dimensional models of the Daytona electric muscle car and Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust System for its Charger and Charger GMC. The two-door Daytona two-door models will cost $59,595 for the R/T model and $73,190 for the Scat Pack model. The first four-door Daytona models will be built by the first half of next year.
The updates for crashing CPUs are now rolling out
Intel has released a new microcode update for its Raptor Lake 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors that will help address the instability. The update is designed to reduce the increase in the minimum operating voltage across multiple cores due to elevated voltages on affected processors. It will be available by August-end for customers who are currently experiencing instability symptoms.
The decision was made that now was the best time to leave from the device
Google has unveiled its fourth-generation Google TV Streamer at its developers’ event on Wednesday. The device, which is scheduled to launch on September 24, will have a’remote finder’ button on the back, which users can use to access live TV shows, music or apps they want to stream. The company also launched a new version of the Chromecast on the same day.
At the moment, HarrisWalz.com is owned by the GOAT of cybersquatting
A man who bought 15 domain names for Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris earlier this year has now updated them with her name and announced his intention to sell them. In August, he purchased the domain names ‘HarrisWalz’, ‘HarrisPritzker’, ‘HarrisHarris-Pritzker’ and ‘HarrisWalz.com’. The domain names have now been renamed to ‘HarrisWalz’ and ‘HarrisPritzker’, respectively.
Microsoft could not pay a price for Apple to use Bing: that is, all of the spiciest parts of the ruling
Google’s VP of Search, Pandu Nayak, said in an interview that it’s vital for Google to continue to ” have an infrastructure that [it] understand[s] search product”, as per The New York Times. He added that if Google made search less attractive, the revenues from it would be fine. Google recently expanded the rule to Chrome browser on Android devices.