There’s a new robotaxi in town — Amazon’s Zoox. Paid rides on Zoox became available for the first time ever, with service launching in Las Vegas on Monday (Aug. 10). The Sin City service follows Zoox’s recent availability as a free option for select San Francisco riders.  While Alphabet’s autonomous Waymo cars are also available…

But shortly afterward, his Patreon account was taken down too. In an email statement, a spokesperson for the platform said: “Patreon prohibits works that provide instructions around the creation of controlled substances or other recreational drugs. We take violations of our policies seriously, and after an internal investigation, we have removed the creator’s account.” Myco…

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating against California’s proposed billionaire tax, according to a new filing. That means that the world’s fourth-richest man, whose net worth hovers around $267 billion, has now spent more than $100 million to avoid an estimated $13.3 billion tax…

Nearly a third of UK manufacturers say they or a company in their supply chain experienced a cyber incident in the past year, while only half have a response plan in place. The new findings put supplier exposure alongside direct attacks as a manufacturing risk. A compromised supplier can interrupt production even when the manufacturer…

Supergirl is flying into theaters, and DC fans have plenty of reason to rejoice. The spinoff from 2025’s Superman follows Kara (Milly Alcock), Clark Kent’s cousin from Krypton, as she pub-crawls across the cosmos. Her plans for devil-may-care merriment are disrupted, however, when she crosses paths with an orphaned girl named Ruthye (Eve Ridley) on…

One element of the ’80s F1 rubber straps that has not carried over to the new collection, though, is the V-shaped grooves on the bottom portion of the original straps. TAG made the ’80s rubber straps extra long so surfers and divers could wear the F1s over wet suits. The V-shaped grooves meant these could…

Meta on Monday released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model designed to power AI agents locally on consumer hardware, providing the clearest picture yet of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of “personal superintelligence” could look like in practice.  The 30-billion parameter model is essentially an open version of Meta’s most powerful closed model, Muse Spark, which…

Seventy-seven counterfeit extensions appeared on Open VSX between July 26 and Aug. 1, impersonating legitimate Visual Studio Code Marketplace tools while sending data to the same newly registered domain. Nineteen collected detailed information about developer machines, Git repositories, and CI/CD environments. The extensions had been removed from Open VSX by Aug. 3, but copies already…

FREE GIFT CARD: Through Aug. 15, Target is giving out free $15 gift cards when you spend $50 on select household items in stores or online. That includes things like trash bags, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, paper towels, and more. There’s a big benefit to doing your household essentials shopping at Target: free money. Through…

The 350-W panels are fairly easy to set up; though the metal fasteners on the kickstands take a bit of fiddling. Unfortunately, the 500-W panels are downright finicky. To fold down compactly, it is broken into twelve separate sections and folds out in a double row, so I found I had to wrestle with it…