Facebook can animate your profile pic with AI
Facebook can animate your profile pic with AI

Facebook is rolling out new AI features that let you animate your profile picture and restyle Stories and Memories. You’ll also be able to add animated backgrounds to text posts to make them pop in the feed. With the animated profile pictures, you’ll be able to give a still photo motion with some preset types […]

Kia EV2 crushes cold weather test with impressive driving range and charging speeds
Kia EV2 crushes cold weather test with impressive driving range and charging speeds

Who said electric vehicles don’t belong in the frigid cold? Kia’s smallest, most affordable EV, the EV2, achieved impressive range and charging performance in cold-weather testing, even though it’s still a prototype.

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Microsoft is keeping Secure Boot alive with Windows updates
Microsoft is keeping Secure Boot alive with Windows updates

Microsoft is automatically replacing boot-level security certificates on Windows devices before they start expiring later this year. The new Secure Boot certificates will be rolled out as part of the regular Windows platform updates, according to Microsoft’s announcement blog, marking a “generational refresh” of the security standard. Secure Boot was introduced in 2011 to protect […]

Google can now help you find and remove your ID from search results
Google can now help you find and remove your ID from search results

Google is expanding its tools for removing your sensitive information and nonconsensual images from its search results. The company announced on Tuesday that you can now use its “results about you” tool to remove your driver’s license, passport, and Social Security number from search, in addition to your phone number and address. Once you add […]

Razer’s resurrected 25-year-old gaming mouse will cost you $1,337
Razer’s resurrected 25-year-old gaming mouse will cost you $1,337

Nostalgia’s getting expensive. When Razer announced last December it would be relaunching the world’s first gaming mouse with a few modern upgrades, it didn’t reveal how much the Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition would cost or when it would be released. The company will officially open preorders for the mouse on February 10th at 8AM […]

Telegram is reportedly being slowed down and restricted in Russia
Telegram is reportedly being slowed down and restricted in Russia

Telegram users in Russia may begin noticing service disruptions on Tuesday after Russia’s communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, reportedly moved to slow down and restrict access to the app, as reported by Russian news outlet RBC. Roskomnadzor said in a statement to RBC, translated using machine translation, that it “will continue to introduce successive restrictions” on Telegram, […]

Rivian R2 prototypes hit the media and revealed new performance specs as a Tesla Model Y competitor
Rivian R2 prototypes hit the media and revealed new performance specs as a Tesla Model Y competitor

Rivian R2 prototypes have now been driven by a select few in digital media, and we have learned quite a bit more about this price-friendly SUV, including potential performance specs.

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Tesla is quoting $290,000 for its 500-miles electric semi truck
Tesla is quoting $290,000 for its 500-miles electric semi truck

Tesla is quoting customers $290,000 for the 500-mile Long Range version of the Tesla Semi, Electrek has learned. The pricing is consistent with data from California’s HVIP voucher program, finally giving us clarity on what the production electric truck…

EPA finalizes illegal dirty air plan to hike fuel costs 76c/gal, despite public outcry
EPA finalizes illegal dirty air plan to hike fuel costs 76c/gal, despite public outcry

In July, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to delete its scientific finding recognizing that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health, with the goal of making cars less efficient, deadlier and more costly. Public comments widel…

While rivals scale back EV plans, Hyundai bets on battery tech and improved charging
While rivals scale back EV plans, Hyundai bets on battery tech and improved charging

After notching its fifth straight record-breaking sales year in the US, Hyundai has no plans of slowing down. The company is ramping up local production while advancing new battery tech to boost EV sales.

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