GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Revel shutters rideshare business, pivots to EV charging

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-02 08:04:26

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Revel is shutting down its ridehail business, citing heightened competition from rideshare leaders like Uber and Lyft. The company, which began as an electric moped business before shifting to rideshare, plans to pivot to electric vehic

Topics: company new revel rideshare york

Shop Amazon

Poshmark CEO and founder to step down

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-02 08:38:57

Fashion resale marketplace Poshmark announced on Monday that its founder, Manish Chandra, is stepping down as CEO. Namsun Kim, who has served as executive chairman since April, has been appointed as his successor. Chandra founded Poshmark in 2011 alongside his three co-founders in a garage in Silicon Valley. Under his leadership, the company went public, was acquired by Naver in 2022, and has grown to 150 million users to date. After nearly 15 years, he’ll transition to being a member of the b

Topics: chandra company founder kim naver

Shop Amazon

Revel is ending its ridesharing operation to focus on EV charging

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 12:18:14

Revel Transit is shutting down its rideshare operation in NYC, as reported by Bloomberg. The company will instead focus its efforts on EV charging. It's also seeking buyers for its fleet, including the 165 for-hire vehicle license plates it owns. "At the end of the day, rideshare is a very competitive market and asset-heavy. It’s low margin," CEO Frank Reig said. “We have made the difficult decision that the best way we can keep the EV transition moving forward is by ending our rideshare servic

Topics: lyft nyc revel rideshare uber

Shop Amazon

YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 12:30:45

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because why not. For anyone born too late to have regularly used one, a floppy disk is a magnetically coated, flexible polyester disk encased in a protective shell. Insert it into a floppy drive, and a magnetic head reads or writes data on the disk. If you've ever wondered why the "save" icon looks the way

Topics: disk drive floppy government just

Shop Amazon

Details emerge on WinRAR zero-day attacks that infected PCs with malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 12:05:47

Researchers have released a report detailing how a recent WinRAR path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-8088 was exploited in zero-day attacks by the Russian 'RomCom' hacking group to drop different malware payloads. RomCom (aka Storm-0978 and Tropical Scorpius) is a Russian cyberespionage threat group with a history in zero-day exploitation, including in Firefox (CVE-2024-9680, CVE-2024-49039) and Microsoft Office (CVE-2023-36884). ESET discovered that RomCom was exploiting an undoc

Topics: 2025 cve eset lnk winrar

Shop Amazon

8 settings I changed on my Google Pixel phone to extend the battery life by hours

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-12-02 12:41:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Pixel phones have an excellent reputation for smart software, but battery life has been a common complaint with Google's smartphones. Thankfully, that same smart software is now improving battery life and longevity, though many features aren't set up for maximum endurance out of the box. I've found that a handful of features can dramatically improve how long your Pixel lasts, both in a single day and over the long haul. Also: I've owned every Google Pixel flagship phone since t

Topics: adaptive battery phone pixel settings

Shop Amazon

Tough, smart and ahead of her time - how Dame Stephanie changed women's role in the tech industry

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-02 15:20:58

Tough, smart and ahead of her time - how Dame Stephanie changed women's role in the tech industry 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save BBC To many women in tech, myself included, Dame Stephanie Shirley, who has died aged 91, was inspirational. Her pioneering and controversial decision to hire exclusively women coders and data inputters, working from home, was way ahead of its time and changed many lives. She had a difficult life, and it made her tough. She w

Topics: dame stephanie steve tech women

Shop Amazon

macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 6 is out, here’s what’s new

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-02 17:08:27

Less than a week after releasing the last batch, Apple is now rolling out developer beta 6 of macOS Tahoe 26 and its other systems. Here are the details. Last week, macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 5 brough a new Macintosh HD icon, as welll as under-the-hood improvements nad bug fixes. That added to other recent changes, such a news screensavers, and improvements to tab visibility in apps like Safari and Terminal. The build number for macOS Tahoe 26 beta 6 release is 25A5338b. We’re taking a cl

Topics: 26 beta developer macos tahoe

Shop Amazon

Apple releases visionOS 26 developer beta 6

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-02 17:08:59

Alongside the new macOS 26 developer beta 6, Apple is also rolling out the sixth developer beta of visionOS 26, and the rest of its operating systems. The build number for today’s visionOS 26 beta 6 release is 23M5322b. If you want to enroll in the developer beta program for Apple Vision Pro, here’s what you’ve got to do: Open the Settings app Choose “General” Choose “Software Update” Select “Beta Updates” Select “visionOS Developer Beta” What’s new? As announced on WWDC25, visionOS 26 brin

Topics: 26 beta developer new visionos

Shop Amazon

Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-02 17:00:35

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit's crackdown on data access. The company has begun to place new restrictions on what the archive site will be able to access in a move that will significantly limit the Wayback Machine's ability to preserve information from Reddit. With the change, the Wayback Machine, a project run by the nonprofit Internet Archive, will only be able to crawl Reddit's homepage. It will no longer be able to access comments, subreddit pages, po

Topics: archive company data machine reddit

Shop Amazon

How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development

news.ycombinator.com Blake Scholl 2025-12-01 15:37:25

First in a series on lessons learned at Boom on how to develop hardware quickly and efficiently XB-1 is the world’s first independently-developed supersonic jet, breaking the sound barrier for the first time in January, 2025. It was designed, built, and flown successfully by a team of just 50 people—compared to the hundreds or even thousands that would have been employed by a traditional big aerospace company. And we did this with roughly a tenth of the budget that would traditionally be requir

Topics: design engineering mkboom overture software

Shop Amazon

Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

news.ycombinator.com Sainath Krishnamurthy 2025-12-02 16:06:04

In a world obsessed with hacks, sprints, and overnight success, I’ve been drawn to something quieter, simpler, and, at least for me, more sustaining: a daily rhythm built around four verbs. No apps. No dashboards. Just a living experiment I return to every day: Learn. Reflect. Apply. Prepare. I haven’t mastered this. Far from it. But the more I practice, the more I notice how these four verbs gently shape my days, especially when things feel chaotic or uncertain. 1. Learn Something Every Day

Topics: did isn just learning ve

Shop Amazon

$30K Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-02 14:30:36

Ford will debut a new midsize pickup truck in 2027 with a targeted price of $30,000, the automaker announced today. The as-yet unnamed pickup will be the first of a series of more affordable EVs from Ford, built using a newly designed flexible vehicle platform and US-made prismatic lithium iron phosphate batteries. For the past few years, a team of Ford employees have been hard at work on the far side of the country from the Blue Oval's base in Dearborn, Michigan. Sequestered in Long Beach and

Topics: evs ford new pickup vehicle

Shop Amazon

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-02 17:48:43

Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia users. The High Court of Justice in London dismissed claims from the Wikimedia Foundation, which challenged the lawfulness of the categorization system used to determine which sites must comply with obligations. But Justice Jeremy Johnson stressed "that this does not give Ofcom and the Secretary of State a green light to

Topics: category foundation government users wikipedia

Shop Amazon

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-12-02 17:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl post detail pages, comments, or pro

Topics: ai archive data internet reddit

Shop Amazon

Microsoft tests cloud-based Windows 365 disaster recovery PCs

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-02 22:50:37

Microsoft has announced the limited public preview of Windows 365 Reserve, a service that provides temporary desktop access to pre-configured cloud PCs for employees whose computers have become unavailable due to cyberattacks, hardware issues, or software problems. Windows 365 Reserve provides up to 10 days of access per user annually to these cloud-based Windows 365 disaster recovery PCs, enabling organizations to mitigate productivity issues during outages without requiring physical replaceme

Topics: 365 cloud microsoft reserve windows

Shop Amazon

Porting to OS/2 – GitPius

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 08:14:09

from the November 1987 issue of PC Tech Journal magazine An inside look reveals how one company rapidly converted a complex data manager from DOS to the OS/2 environment. by Steven Armbrust When Microrim, Inc., became a beta site for IBM’s new Operating System/2 (OS/2) in late 1986, Microrim chairman and founder Wayne Erickson knew immediately what he and his staff had to do. Not only did they have to convert R:BASE System V, Microrim’s largest and most complex database manager, to run under

Topics: base conversion dos microrim os

Shop Amazon

Profitable Nigerian food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2025-12-02 11:11:55

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Investment, Rebel Fund, GFR Fund, Kaleo, HoaQ, and others. The investors are betting on the team’s ability to pair local market expertise with execution and turn

Topics: aluko chowdeck delivery food local

Shop Amazon

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub – CEO Steps Down

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Dohmke 2025-12-03 03:01:39

Over a decade ago, my family and I made the leap to move from Germany to the United States after the sale of my startup to Microsoft. In the years since, I’ve had the privilege of working with many exceptional human beings, including Hubbers, Microsofties, customers, partners, our GitHub Stars, open-source maintainers, and developers around the world who’ve helped us shape GitHub. From building mobile developer tools, to running the acquisition of GitHub alongside Nat Friedman, to becoming GitHu

Topics: ai copilot github ve year

Shop Amazon

Revel shuts down its ride-hail business to focus on EV charging

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-12-03 03:33:14

Revel has shut down its ride-hailing service in New York City, in yet another pivot for the company that started out by renting electric scooters in 2019. Moving forward, Revel will instead focus on its nascent EV charging business, which includes operating five stations in New York and one in San Francisco. A visit to Revel’s app on Monday showed a message thanking users for “riding with us the last 4 years!” and announcing it has “permanently closed our rideshare service.” Revel’s website ech

Topics: charging company fleet forward revel

Shop Amazon

NVIDIA may give US government a cut of its profits to sell AI chips to China

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-03 05:00:03

The debate over whether AI chipmakers should be allowed to sell their products to China has taken an unusual turn. The US government has reportedly given NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) permission to make the sales but for one big catch: 15 percent of the sales. The news was first reported by The Financial Times, which cited multiple people familiar with the agreement. In July, NVIDIA announced that the US government would approve export licenses to sell its H20 AI GPUs after blocking t

Topics: china chips government nvidia sales

Shop Amazon

You can try Gemini Live in your favorite Google apps now, and it blew me away

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-12-03 08:45:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Gemini Live now works with Calendar, Maps, Keep, and Tasks. Update is rolling out to most Android and iOS users. It can add events, guide routes, and manage lists or notes. In May of this year, Google debuted Gemini Live with screen sharing and camera access for Android. Google has been slowly integrating the feature, which lets you ask Gemini about anything on your screen (or that you can see with your camera), into its suite of apps since Jun

Topics: calendar gemini google live tasks

Shop Amazon

$30k Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-03 08:30:36

Ford will debut a new midsize pickup truck in 2027 with a targeted price of $30,000, the automaker announced today. The as-yet unnamed pickup will be the first of a series of more affordable EVs from Ford, built using a newly designed flexible vehicle platform and US-made prismatic lithium iron phosphate batteries. For the past few years, a team of Ford employees have been hard at work on the far side of the country from the Blue Oval's base in Dearborn, Michigan. Sequestered in Long Beach and

Topics: evs ford new pickup vehicle

Shop Amazon

Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-12-03 08:30:00

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ford says its finally cracked the code on cheap EVs. The automaker announced plans to build “a family” of low-cost electric vehicles at its Kentucky assembly planrt, starting with a four-door, midsized $30,000 pickup truck in 2027. For

Topics: company ford new says vehicle

Shop Amazon

A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-28 18:21:39

Sbixel Sbixel is a very simple pixel physics simulator I made to learn Rust. It uses macroquad for drawing — and I was pleasantly surprised by how simple and awesome it is! Quick demo (click for youtube link): ⚠️ This project is very basilar and doesn't have much ambition to go anywhere — it's mainly a learning sandbox. How It Works The simulation uses a "sector" system to reduce unnecessary processing by only simulating active areas of pixels. All settings related to simulation and perfo

Topics: active add causes improve simulation

Shop Amazon

Justice Dept. Settles with Greystar to End Participation in Algorithmic Pricing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 11:50:53

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ claims against Greystar Management Services LLC as part of its ongoing enforcement against algorithmic coordination and other anticompetitive practices in rental markets across the country. Greystar, the largest landlord in the United States, manages almost 950,000 rental units across the country. As alleged in Plaintiffs’ complaint, Greystar and other landlords, including five co-defenda

Topics: competitively greystar pricing proposed sensitive

Shop Amazon

Paramount Plus will soon become the exclusive home to the UFC

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-03 12:25:54

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Paramount has just snapped up the rights to the UFC, joining an industry-wide race to buy up remaining sports streaming rights. The $7.7 billion deal will bring 30 of the UFC’s “Fight Nights” and 13 marquee events to Paramount Plus subscribers for seven years st

Topics: espn events paramount rights ufc

Shop Amazon

Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-12-03 12:09:13

The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. According to the FT’s government source, Nvidia will share revenues from sales of its H20 AI chips in China, and AMD would share a cut of MI308 chip

Topics: china chips government nvidia sales

Shop Amazon

Gemini Live is finally able to interact with other Google apps in real-time

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 17:50:07

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini Live can now interact with other Google apps. With this update, you can now ask Gemini Live to fetch information from Calendar, Keep, Maps, and Tasks in real-time. The feature is starting to roll out to those using the Gemini app on both Android and iOS. Gemini Live is getting a significant upgrade with the ability to interact with other Google apps. Following the announcement at I/O 2025, Google has been testing support for various apps, includi

Topics: app apps gemini live support

Shop Amazon

Amazon Drone Beehive Concept (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Aurambout 2025-12-03 17:43:27

Transport is one of the main pillars of modern economies comprising a spectrum of individual systems and their interconnections that are intended to cover the mobility demand of people and goods. Transport systems include an extensive series of physical and organisational elements and are being characterised by an overall intrinsic complexity. These elements can be influencing each other directly and/or indirectly, linearly or nonlinearly, having also potential feedback cycles [1]. In particular

Topics: delivery drone mile potential transport

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Revel shutters rideshare business, pivots to EV charging

Poshmark CEO and founder to step down

Revel is ending its ridesharing operation to focus on EV charging

YouTuber recreates a floppy disk from scratch

Details emerge on WinRAR zero-day attacks that infected PCs with malware

8 settings I changed on my Google Pixel phone to extend the battery life by hours

Tough, smart and ahead of her time - how Dame Stephanie changed women's role in the tech industry

macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 6 is out, here’s what’s new

Apple releases visionOS 26 developer beta 6

Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development

Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

$30K Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process

Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

Reddit will block the Internet Archive

Microsoft tests cloud-based Windows 365 disaster recovery PCs

Porting to OS/2 – GitPius

Profitable Nigerian food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub – CEO Steps Down

Revel shuts down its ride-hail business to focus on EV charging

NVIDIA may give US government a cut of its profits to sell AI chips to China

You can try Gemini Live in your favorite Google apps now, and it blew me away

$30k Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process

Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs

A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad

Justice Dept. Settles with Greystar to End Participation in Algorithmic Pricing

Paramount Plus will soon become the exclusive home to the UFC

Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

Gemini Live is finally able to interact with other Google apps in real-time

Amazon Drone Beehive Concept (2019)

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising