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Belgian startup Any has launched the LUV1, a modular electric motorcycle that combines cargo-bike-level storage capacity of up to 120 liters with a top speed of 100 km/h. Designed by former Pininfarina design director Lowie Vermeersch, who also serves as creative director and investor, the vehicle offers customizable frames and accessories for commuters, families, and outdoor enthusiasts.
Google's Pixel 11 Pro XL nearly hits its advertised 45W wired charging speed, peaking at 40.7W, but only when paired with a specific USB-C charger supporting 21V at 2A under the USB PD PPS protocol. Common PPS chargers limited to 11V, including some rated up to 67W, only delivered around 25W in testing, and even with the ideal charger the phone still takes about 21 minutes to reach 50% charge.
Developer Sebastien Guillemot asked Claude to help build a cleanup script for AI agent temp files, but the model flagged the deletion logic as risky and got automatically downgraded to Opus 4.8 by Anthropic's safety harness. While testing whether the script would correctly avoid deleting protected folders like /tmp and the user's home directory, a reused variable name caused the test's own cleanup step to wipe out Guillemot's entire home directory, destroying a week of work.
After Dolly Parton's death from cancer at age 80, right-wing commentators and online conspiracy theorists began circulating unsubstantiated claims that her Covid-19 vaccination caused a 'turbo cancer.' Parton's family confirmed she died following a brief illness related to cancer, with no connection to vaccination cited. The singer had publicly supported vaccine research, donating $1 million in 2020 and receiving her shot on camera in 2021.
Bordeaux-based developer Vincent, known as @VynseDev, launched a site called Brand My Mac to auction off ten sticker spots on a 14-inch MacBook Pro he hasn't yet purchased. Bidders pay a 20% deposit for spots priced €125 to €400, with winning logos vinyl-cut and stuck to the laptop lid alongside a link on the project page. The auction has already drawn over €7,000 across roughly 118 bids, well above the machine's €2,529 price tag.
Samsung has pushed One UI 9 Beta 7 to the Galaxy S26 lineup, quietly adding AI features first seen on the Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy S26 FE. These include My FanCam video reframing, a Call Brief overlay that surfaces calendar and email info during calls, Custom Cards for Now Brief, and combined Finder plus Google Search widgets on the home screen.
Wild honey from Himalayan cliff bees, called 'bhir mauri ko maha' in Nepal, contains grayanotoxin absorbed from rhododendron nectar and can dangerously slow heart rate and crash blood pressure when eaten in excess. A chemical ecologist notes a recent case where a man was hospitalized after consuming the honey brought from Nepal's hills, and warns that such honey is now being marketed internationally on major online platforms without the dosing knowledge Indigenous communities have developed over generations.
A hands-on video from reviewer Vincent Zhong shows Huawei's new wide-format Pura X View can detect whether it's held in the left or right hand and shift on-screen elements accordingly. The keyboard, call accept/reject buttons, and some music player controls all reposition to match the holding hand, and the power button appears usable to flip e-reader pages.
South Korea has launched a national program giving every citizen free access to AI chatbots developed domestically. The initiative is designed to widen public exposure to homegrown AI tools rather than relying on foreign systems.
New leaks attributed to leaker OnLeaks reveal that Samsung's standard Galaxy S27 will carry over the same flat display, rounded corners, and raised rear camera island seen on the Galaxy S26, with dimensions differing by only fractions of a millimeter. This comes shortly after separate renders suggested the Galaxy S27 Ultra may adopt a horizontal, iPhone-style camera plateau instead of Samsung's traditional vertical layout.
A technical writeup describes a fast method for computing the volume of any simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh by applying the divergence theorem. Instead of directly integrating over the mesh's interior, the approach converts the volume integral into a surface integral using a chosen vector field with unit divergence, then sums contributions from each triangle in the mesh.
Virtual power plants let utilities remotely adjust smart thermostats, EV chargers, batteries and solar panels in homes to reduce strain during peak demand, in exchange for bill discounts or signup bonuses. More than 500 such programs already run across the US, with about 4 million smart-thermostat households enrolled as of last year, and interest is growing as companies like Google invest in the technology to support data centers.