Meet Helm, the startup taking on Gmail with a server that runs in your home
There’s no doubt that Gmail has changed the way we consume email. It’s free, it gives most of us all the storage we’ll ever need, and it does a better job than most in …
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Tesla buys 210-acre site for factory in Shanghai
Enlarge / A Tesla car is charging at a Tesla electric vehicle charging station in front of Baolong building on July 15, 2018 in Beijing, China. (credit: Photo by VCG / Getty Images)
On Wednesday, Tesla announced that it had
Volvo’s new V60 is proof the station wagon must never die
Enlarge (credit: Jonathan Gitlin)
Forget the impending death of the sedan, as an automotive species the station wagon should be on life support. Which is a shame, because station wagons are great: the utility of an SUV without the high
Trivial authentication bypass in libssh leaves servers wide open
There’s a four-year-old bug in the Secure Shell implementation known as libssh that makes it trivial for just about anyone to gain unfettered administrative control of a vulnerable server. While the authentication-bypass flaw represents …
Verizon slammed for poor hurricane response as Floridians lack cell service
Enlarge / A Verizon logo at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Wireless carriers’ failure to fully restore cellular service in Florida after Hurricane Michael “is completely unacceptable,” Federal Communications Commission Chairman …
Roborace wants the future of racing to be AI plus humans, working together
A quick look through the Cars Technica back catalog (the carchive, perhaps?) shows that autonomous driving technology and racing technology are both topics we return to quite often. But it has been a while since we covered their
Tips about how to choose the right car floor mats
One of the best ways to keep our car clean and tidy is with a floor mat. These little accessories offer much more than one might presume. When you consider that things like dirt, mud, water and other inconveniences might …
Already facing an uphill misinformation fight, Facebook loses to scammers, too
Enlarge / A partial screenshot of one of the scam profiles pushing an adult dating scam on Facebook.
Responding to critics in the US Congress and elsewhere who say Facebook isn’t doing enough to …
Winamp 6, due out in 2019, aims to whip more llama ass
Rejoice, llama-whipping fans, a new version of Winamp is set to be released in 2019, according to a Monday report by TechCrunch.
Alexandre Saboundjian, the CEO of Radionomy, said that the upgrade …