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The Moving Assembly Line Turns 100 (2013)

news.ycombinator.com Austin Weber 2025-07-28 01:23:34

This month marks the official celebration of the world’s first moving assembly line. On Oct. 7, 1913, 140 assemblers stationed along a 150-foot chassis line at a Ford Motor Co. plant just north of Detroit stood in place as the work came to them. With the aid of three-wheeled dollies, chassis were pushed by hand along parallel rails embedded in the floor of the Highland Park plant. Six months earlier, Ford engineers had experimented with a movable line for assembling flywheel magnetos, a key com

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Ford’s Recall Affects Almost Every Cool Car They Make, and There’s No Fix Yet

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-30 17:13:40

If you’ve recently bought one of Ford’s best-selling vehicles, like the wildly popular Bronco, the workhorse F-150, or the family-hauling Explorer, the company has some unsettling news for you. Ford is recalling a staggering 850,318 of its most iconic models worldwide, including 844,098 in the U.S. alone, from the 2021-2023 model years due to a defect that can cause the engine to suddenly stall while driving. But the real kicker in this massive safety recall isn’t just the danger of your engine

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Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-07-30 03:07:29

In Brief Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sharply criticized universities including Stanford and MIT, along with the National Science Foundation, in a group chat with AI scientists and Trump administration officials, according to screenshots viewed by the Washington Post. According to the Post, Andreessen described MIT and Stanford (which I attended two decades ago) as “mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation.” He also reportedly complained that Stanford “forced my

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In the Southwest, solar panels can help both photovoltaics and crops

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-01 07:11:31

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. “We were getting basil leaves the size of your palm,” University of Arizona researcher Greg Barron-Gafford said, describing some of the benefits he and his team have seen farming under solar panels in the Tucson desert. For 12 years, Barron-Gafford has been investigating agrivoltaics, the integration of solar a

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In the Southwest, solar panels in can help both photovoltaics and crops

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-01 22:11:31

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. “We were getting basil leaves the size of your palm,” University of Arizona researcher Greg Barron-Gafford said, describing some of the benefits he and his team have seen farming under solar panels in the Tucson desert. For 12 years, Barron-Gafford has been investigating agrivoltaics, the integration of solar a

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Prime Day-2 Deals: Apple Watch Series 10 $279, Mac mini $499, M4 iMac $150 off, AirTag $16 ea., Powerbeats Pro 2, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-08-05 17:45:32

We are now officially into day 2 of the massive Amazon Prime Day sale and today we are highlighting the best prices ever on the most affordable Apple Watch Series 10 at $120 off with deals starting from $279. Next up are the deals on the most affordable Macs in the current-generation lineup – M4 MacBook Air at $849 or M4 Mac mini from $499 (Up to $150 off) – as well as the M4 iMac at $150 off, the best price ever on Powerbeats Pro 2, and a new all-time low on the latest Beats Solo 4 for Prime Da

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Ford’s New Plan Makes Buying a Car or EV Surprisingly Easy This Summer

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-06 04:26:44

On the surface, Ford’s latest announcement is a fantastic deal for car buyers. The company is retiring its “employee pricing for all” campaign and rolling out an aggressive “Zero, Zero, Zero” summer sales event: zero down payment, zero percent interest for 48 months, and zero payments for the first 90 days. It’s a tempting offer, but when you look closer at the economic landscape, it starts to look less like a confident summer promotion and more like a defensive maneuver against a gathering sto

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Ford Just Made It a Lot Easier to Buy a Car This Summer

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-06 14:26:44

On the surface, Ford’s latest announcement is a fantastic deal for car buyers. The company is retiring its “employee pricing for all” campaign and rolling out an aggressive “Zero, Zero, Zero” summer sales event: zero down payment, zero percent interest for 48 months, and zero payments for the first 90 days. It’s a tempting offer, but when you look closer at the economic landscape, it starts to look less like a confident summer promotion and more like a defensive maneuver against a gathering sto

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Latest Sales Data Reveal Clear Winners And Losers in a Messy EV Market

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-08-10 20:49:22

The second quarter of 2025 painted a chaotic picture of the electric vehicle market in the United States. While General Motors enjoyed a breakout quarter, most other automakers, especially Tesla and Ford, stumbled hard. EV sales are now a mix of breakthroughs and breakdowns. And all of this is happening under a White House that has turned decisively against green subsidies. GM Breaks Away From the Pack Despite a political environment hostile to clean energy, GM managed to deliver a stunning 1

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The electric Hummer is almost outselling the F-150 Lightning

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-18 21:00:00

General Motors sold 4,508 electric Hummer trucks and SUVs in the second quarter in the U.S., putting it close to Ford’s F-150 Lightning despite a price gap in the tens of thousands of dollars. The Hummer sales were part of a banner quarter for GM’s electric vehicles, making it one of the only automakers that saw a genuine year-over-year uptick in U.S. EV sales, according to data released Tuesday. The company sold 17,420 electric Equinox SUVs, 3,056 electric Silverado pickups, 6,549 Blazer EVs,

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Ford EV sales fall 31% while hybrids rise

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-19 09:22:46

Ford saw a 31% drop in U.S. sales of electric vehicles in the second quarter of 2025, led by a collapse of E-Transit vans and declining popularity of the F-150 Lightning. At the same time, hybrid sales jumped more than 23% compared to last year. Halfway through the year, and the company has sold just 38,988 electric vehicles — down nearly 12% from where Ford’s EV sales stood at the same point in 2024. That’s despite overall sales being up, thanks in part to the company’s aggressive employee pri

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The $25k car is going extinct?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 23:59:56

View in browser Issue #353 Sunday, June 29, 2025 Why the $25,000 car is going extinct Can’t find an affordable car anywhere? You’re not the only one. BY MARK DENT In late 2021, Ford released the Maverick, a compact pickup truck. At roughly half the cost and half the weight of the popular F-150, it was meant to be an antidote for excess, and it worked. With a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $19,995 for the base level, the Maverick drew rave reviews from critics and a rush of inte

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Feds question Ford in hands-free driving investigation

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-08-30 13:32:37

The top federal vehicle safety regulator has sent Ford an exhaustive list of questions about its hands-free driver-assistance system known as BlueCruise. It’s the latest development in an investigation that started more than one year ago following two fatal crashes involving the software. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) sent a letter to Ford on June 18 that contains 25 questions. Many of them are basic, such as asking Ford for a

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Meta is absent from SF Pride this year, as tech industry retreats from public support of LGBTQ+

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-08-31 04:41:56

Parade goers hold Pride flags during the annual Pride Parade in San Francisco on Sunday, June 29, 2024. Minh Connors | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is staying mum these days when it comes to the LGBTQ+ community. It wasn't always that way. San Francisco Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford told CNBC she remembers when Zuckerberg personally called the nonprofit to ensure that the company then known as Facebook had a spot at the annual event

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Ford Will Keep Battery Factory Even If Republicans Ax Tax Break

news.ycombinator.com Neal E. Boudette 2025-09-01 08:37:47

In addition to giving tax breaks to consumers who buy or lease electric cars and trucks, the Inflation Reduction Act provides tax credits for automakers and suppliers that build battery plants in the United States. If the credits survive, they could offset about a quarter of the cost of the plant in Marshall, Ford executives said. The House version of the Republican bill would eliminate credits for plants that were built with materials or technology from China, Iran, North Korea or Russia. The

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Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Set Off a Wave of Disinformation After Iran Bombing

wired.com David Gilbert 2025-09-01 20:33:31

President Donald Trump and his most vocal supporters have been using disinformation, fake videos, and mental gymnastics to try to spin the US military’s bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites as a complete and total victory that signals the end of a war instead of the beginning. On Saturday night, with the B-2 stealth bombers that dropped a dozen GBU-57 “bunker buster” bombs on the Fordow underground nuclear facility just beginning their flights back to the US, Trump declared the mission a comp

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Blink Security Bundle Is 50% Off for Early Prime Day, Includes 7 Cameras and Storage With a MicroSD Card

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-02 09:10:10

It’s never been easier or more affordable to keep an eye on your home, both inside and out. Whether you’re heading out of town or just want extra peace of mind while you’re at work, a dependable security camera system can make a world of difference. The problem is, most setups either cost too much up front or require subscriptions to get all the features. And if you’re already paying for the equipment, there’s no way you want to spend more money on a subscription every month, too. Luckily, there

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Oxford City Council suffers breach exposing two decades of data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-02 12:17:28

Oxford City Council warns it suffered a data breach where attackers accessed personally identifiable information from legacy systems. The incident has also caused an ICT service disruption, as announced on the website, and although most of the impacted systems have been brought back online, the remaining backlogs may continue to cause delays. Oxford City Council is the local government authority responsible for managing critical public services, such as housing, planning, waste collection, env

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Show HN: Luna Rail – treating night trains as a spatial optimization problem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 20:50:30

The Hotel Pods: affordable premium The hotel pod offers a private single cabin for all passengers while, significantly increasing the capacity over conventional sleeper cars. By day, a spacious sofa creates your personal living room or office on the move. At night, the seat smoothly converts into a large, comfortable bed. There are also variants for two or three passengers.

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Are Ford and GM Still American?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-09-02 14:00:28

For decades, Ford and General Motors have been symbols of American industry, blue-collar pride, and heartland grit. From the rugged Ford F-150 to the all-American Chevy, the Detroit Big Three — Ford, GM, and Chrysler (now part of Stellantis) — have dominated the auto market with vehicles built and sold across the United States. The Ford F-150 is a cultural symbol. For many, Detroit remains the heartland of the U.S. auto industry, a perception reinforced by billions of dollars in recent investme

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Ford Ranger Plug-In Hybrid Review: Prices, Availability, Specs

wired.com Jason Barlow 2025-09-02 10:30:00

Fitness for purpose. Take a deftly aimed power tool to all the marketing flim-flam, and you can’t go far wrong with that mantra. There’s no messing around when it comes to a pick-up truck, a vehicle that has a clear job to do, and in most cases does it admirably. Except that even this segment isn’t immune to mission creep, and these hardy vehicles are now expected to double as workhorse and acceptable all-round family transport. The Ford F-150 may typify the breed, but outside of the US the Ran

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TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 06:50:47

Unleashing what’s next in American innovation Today, TI is the largest foundational semiconductor manufacturer in the U.S., producing analog and embedded processing chips that are critical for smartphones, vehicles, data centers, satellites and nearly every other electronic device. In order to meet the steadily growing demand for these essential chips, TI is building on its legacy of technology leadership and expanding its U.S. manufacturing presence to help its customers pioneer the next wave

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Soundcore ANC Headphones Are Now 14x Cheaper Than AirPods Max, 87K Reviews Make Them Amazon’s Choice

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-11 01:40:06

It’d be nice to always be able to afford the best things in life, but sometimes they’re simply not worth it. After all, why spend $200 on something when half of that, or even less, will still get the job done well? One of the places where it’s important to keep this in mind is when it comes to how you listen to music. There are an unfathomable number of headphone and earbud options out there, and while the top-end devices are nice, most of us will be perfectly happy with something more affordabl

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Borderlands 4 pre-orders open at $70, avoiding feared $80 price tag

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2025-09-11 21:19:00

What just happened? The situation around Borderlands 4's potential $80 price has seen outcry, outrage, and a very poorly-worded X post from CEO Randy Pitchford. But fear not: the game is now available for pre-order at $70 for the standard version. With more new games costing $80, there were fears that Borderlands 4 would follow this trend. But the game has landed on Steam ahead of its September 12 launch with a $70/£60/€70 price tag. That's for the standard edition. There's also a $100/£90/€10

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Best Internet Providers in Medford, Oregon

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-11 22:00:00

What is the best internet provider in Medford, Oregon? A popular destination for retirees and tourists alike, Medford, nicknamed the Pear Blossom City, has some decent internet provider options. Spectrum Internet is CNET’s pick for the best internet service provider in Medford. It takes the top spot thanks to wide availability, reliable speeds and competitive introductory pricing. It covers nearly 90% of the city, according to the latest data from the US Federal Communications Commission. It al

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Borderlands 4 will not cost $80, despite misguided executive comments

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-12 03:56:22

Borderlands 4, the latest entry in Gearbox Software's popular looter shooter franchise, is available to pre-order now for $70, a good $10 less than many assumed it would cost. The game's price first came into question when its September 12 release date was announced without pre-order details, and Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford suggested that whether the game came with a $80 price tag was out of his hands. Pitchford put his foot in his mouth in a thread on X sharing a behind-the-scenes video about

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Jeremy Crawford and Chris Perkins Have Jumped Ship From ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ to ‘Critical Role’

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-09-13 01:05:59

Critical Role may have built its years of blockbuster success out of Dungeons & Dragons, but at this point the actual-play streamer’s success has grown well beyond the game, from animated series to its own tabletop games. But now it’s taken an even bigger step: by recruiting two of the biggest names of contemporary D&D design. This morning Critical Role confirmed that Jeremy Crawford, Wizards of the Coasts’ former D&D principle rules designer, and Chris Perkins, former D&D senior story designer

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Ford’s new modified Mustang Mach-E is ready to fly up Pikes Peak

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-09-13 01:00:00

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. The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is a racing event that’s been going on since 1916. It’s a 12.42-mile run that climbs 4,720 feet and serves as a proving ground for carmakers to test the speed and agility of their new vehicles. Electric cars tend to do well in the Pikes Peak race; they don’t have to deal with the pro

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Mixtape turned me back into a Millennial teenage dirtbag

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-16 21:03:37

Mixtape is the answer to the question, “What if the movie High Fidelity was a video game?” It’s not a perfect analogy, but it’s pretty damn close, and either way it’s a sign that Mixtape is going to be a fabulous slice of late-1990s, early-2000s nostalgia, complete with a banging soundtrack. You can hear it in the trailers — Mixtape absolutely nails the classic Moviefone tone, and it seems that this vibe extends to the full game. I played roughly 30 minutes of Mixtape at Summer Game Fest 2025,

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How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever

wired.com Steven Levy 2025-09-16 11:00:00

In early June 2005, Steve Jobs emailed his friend Michael Hawley a draft of a speech he had agreed to deliver to Stanford University’s graduating class in a few days. “It’s embarrassing,” he wrote. “I'm just not good at this sort of speech. I never do it. I'll send you something, but please don't puke.” The notes that he sent contained the bones of what would become one of the most famous commencement addresses of all time. It has been viewed over 120 million times and is quoted to this day. Pr

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The Moving Assembly Line Turns 100 (2013)

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