Speaking to UK motoring magazine Autoexpress, Lotus CEO Phil Popham said the company will release one more combustion enginevehicle before moving entirely to battery electric platforms. The sportscar maker will release one more combustion vehicle in the next two years, then it’s all electric after that it seems. Popham is clear the future is electric: While governments around the globe are pushing carmakers to clean up the emissions of their vehicle fleets, Lotus also sees the transition to electricity as an opportunity to improve its vehicles’ performance....

Sounds like a great way to listen to music right? But there is a catch. They are promotions that are meant to make you buy and use their products and services. But nearly all of them, even the legitimate ones, are nothing but a data-grab of your personal information. These apps make it easy to earn or save cash, but in signing up for these offers, you are also opening yourself up to extensive tracking....

We live in a 21st century world, and an increasing number of cars are being bought online. Sadly, the experience of buying a car from a website just isn’t the same as getting hands on with the real thing. At least that was the case until now, because the car configurator from Lucid — the Californian EV company setup up by former Tesla engineers — is so goddamn beautiful it comes as close to the real thing I think most of us will ever get....

Now, according to a new study by IBM’s X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) team, destructive attacks devised with an intent to wipe data and shut down systems have increased by a whopping 200 percent over the past six months. IBM said 50 percent of the malware attacks were in the manufacturing, oil and gas, and education sectors. Most of the destructive attacks observed by the team have taken place in Europe, the US, and the Middle East....

We’ll start with an obvious disclaimer: don’t go sneaking around at night leaving box-shaped objects on people’s property. More than forty-percent of US households have at least one firearm and Virginia is a stand your ground state. If police are correct and this is a prank, it’s a very dangerous one. This isn’t the first time the ‘TV Head’ serial-dumpers have struck in Virginia. Local media outlets exactly a year ago this Sunday reported an incident where at least twenty homeowners woke to find vintage sets on their property....

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Read on to learn how devs are harnessing DualSense’s adaptive triggers and haptics: https://t.co/Y79pSzkGsU pic.twitter.com/yiGWIQ6MZQ — PlayStation (@PlayStation) August 20, 2020 Rumors and reports about the price and the release date of each of the next-generation consoles — of varying levels of reliability — have been making the rounds since before the consoles were officially revealed. The latest one, from VGC, surfaced this morning and details the most likely release dates for both consoles....

“One of the key drivers making blockchain-based applications programmable, accessible to enterprise customers, and able to meet the diverse needs of a variety of sectors [are smart contracts],” the post reads. “They foster trust in adversarial environments, but also make it challenging to secure compared to traditional code.” But worry no more, the software Goliath believes it has the solution to this quandary: Verifier for Solidity (for those out of the loop, Solidity is a programming language specifically developed for Ethereum) – or VeriSol for short....

Thurrott‘s Brad Sams reported last week that Microsoft might still be working on an xCloud console, long-rumored to be in development. Originally, the word on the street was that Microsoft was working on two consoles — codenamed “Anaconda” and “Lockhart.” “Anaconda” later became Scarlett, and here we are today. Xbox’s Phil Spencer said in a recent interview with Business Insider that Project Scarlett was the only next-gen console the company was working on for the time being — he even said the plurality of the phrasing in the original reports was referring to the digital Xbox One S that came out earlier this year in addition to Scarlett....

It feels like Microsoft has retooled the Xbox One’s user interface so many times in the console’s six-year lifespan. This latest update will make it more “streamlined” by removing the Twists bar from the top of the screen in favor of simple buttons. The pictures of the update indicate you’ll have buttons for Xbox Game Pass, Mixer, the Microsoft Store, and the Xbox Community. They’ll sit below the user’s most recently played game tile....

These robots, called M-Blocks 2.0, have a barcode-like system on each face that helps them recognize and communicate with other blocks. Right now, these 16 blocks can perform tasks such as forming a line, following arrows, tracking light, and traversing down a path of arrows. These blocks can travel along other blocks, climb up or down each other, and even jump. Check out their slick moves in the video below....

Well, strap yourself in, because we’ve got some good news: Sennheiser’s new Momentum earbuds are here. Say hello to the rather imaginatively titled Sennheiser Momentum true wireless 2. Terrible name aside — I mean, really? Sennheiser, really? Really, Sennheiser? You couldn’t do better than that? — there are some updates that should make your listening experience far better. [Read: Nintendo Switch Online is good, but it needs N64 games to be great]...

Users on Reddit have noticed they’re unable to access the site on their Airtel and Reliance Jio mobile network connections. While Some users on Twitter have further suggested multiple internet service providers (ISP) have blocked the site. Confirmed that @DuckDuckGo is being blocked by multiple ISPs in India, including: Vodafone 4G (HTTP HOST-based)Airtel 4G (DNS-based, SNI-based)Jio 4G (SNI-based) ACT not blocking it yet. https://t.co/HSynullIIS — Gurshabad Grover (@GurshabadGrover) July 1, 2020...

A kernel panic is a kind of vulnerability where an operating system cannot easily recover – or, indeed, cannot recover at all. This could force a restart of a targeted host, causing a temporary shutdown in services. Given Linux powers a variety of systems, from web servers to high-performance computing clusters, this is obviously really concerning. In total, Netflix has found four separate vulnerabilities, each with their own distinct behaviors....

These Venusian volcanoes form in clusters, potentially revealing details of activity taking place beneath the surface of our neighboring world. “This is the first time we are able to point to specific structures and say ‘Look, this is not an ancient volcano but one that is active today, dormant perhaps, but not dead. This study significantly changes the view of Venus from a mostly inactive planet to one whose interior is still churning and can feed many active volcanoes,” said Laurent Montési, a professor of geology at the University of Maryland....

For centuries, sailors have been reporting strange encounters like the one above. These events are called milky seas. They are a rare nocturnal phenomenon in which the ocean’s surface emits a steady bright glow. They can cover thousands of square miles and, thanks to the colorful accounts of 19th-century mariners like Capt. Kingman, milky seas are a well-known part of maritime folklore. But because of their remote and elusive nature, they are extremely difficult to study and so remain more a part of that folklore than of science....

The company first revealed the new model via the Nintendo Japan Twitter: — 任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) July 17, 2019 According to Nintendo’s Japanese website, this new version of the Switch runs four-and-a-half to nine hours from one battery charge. For reference, the current model lasts about two-and-a-half to six-and-a-half hours. To further drive the point home, the company says playing Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will deplete the original in three hours, and the new model in five-and-a-half hours....

Twitter is kind of the wild west of social media. Everything’s thrown together in one big news feed, and even if you’re scrupulous with the use of lists, some things can still sneak through your filters. Twitter allows you to mute hashtags and accounts, but imagine my surprise when I discover you can do this with individual words — and without having to delve into the menu system either....

Developed by Equinor and located about 140 kilometres off the coast of Norway, the floating wind farm is the first in the world to power offshore oil and gas platforms. The wind farm is estimated to meet about 35% of the annual electricity power demand of five of the Gullfaks and Snorre partners’ rigs. Of course, this percentage will increase when wind speed is higher. It will also cut CO2 emissions from the fields by about 200,000 tonnes per year....

The site, a home for far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists, allows users to post anonymously and has famously hosted manifestos for Christchurch shooting in New Zealand, and El Paso shooting in the US. During the Christchurch shooting the terrorist live-streamed the incident on the site, and many community members praised his ‘efforts.’ After these incidents, The site’s founder, Fredrik Bennon repeatedly asked for 8chan’s ban. After El Paso shooting, cloud hosting services including Cloudflare and Epik banned the site....