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Lucid Motors will roll out hands-free highway driving this month

Lucid Motors is set to roll out a software update on July 30 that will enable hands-free highway driving on its Air sedans, a major step forward for the company’s advanced driver assistance system. The rollout will put Lucid Motors on a short list of companies that have made hands-free driving possible in the United States. Ford has a system called BlueCruise, General Motors has Super Cruise, and Mercedes-Benz has Drive Pilot, although it’s not as widely available. In the right conditions and i

Fairphone 6 lands a perfect 10 for repairability

Dutch company Fairphone continues to lead the charge on consumer- and planet-friendly electronics, proving that a great phone doesn't have to be impossible to repair or environmentally unsustainable. The Fairphone 6 has just been released, coming two years after the last generation of the phone built to last. The folks over at iFixit wasted no time in conducting a teardown of this new entry to see how it stacks up against previous generations. The Fairphone 6 scored a perfect 10 out of 10, like

Can these $100 Android phones replace my flagship? The result after weeks of testing

ZDNET's key takeaways Both of these Blackview smartphones retail for under $100 Both handsets have what it takes for tasks such as messaging, taking photos and video, social media, and browsing the web Both benefit form bumping up the virtual RAM to the max. $94.99 at Amazon It's easy to think that you have to drop hundreds -- if not thousands -- of dollars to get a new smartphone. If you want a flagship smartphone from the big brands, then yes, you're going to experience some serious weight

Both these Android handsets are under $100

ZDNET's key takeaways Both of these Blackview smartphones retail for under $100 Both handsets have what it takes for tasks such as messaging, taking photos and video, social media, and browsing the web Both benefit form bumping up the virtual RAM to the max. $94.99 at Amazon It's easy to think that you have to drop hundreds – if not thousands -- of dollars to get a new smartphone. If you want a flagship smartphone from the big brands, then yes, you're going to experience some serious weight r

Why AI hardware needs to be open

Now it’s mounting a powerful second act, joined by a wave of AI open-source enthusiasts. This time around the stakes are higher, and we need to give it the support it never had. In 2024 the AI leader Hugging Face developed an open-source platform for AI robots, which already has 3,500+ robot data sets and draws thousands of participants from every continent to join giant hackathons. Raspberry Pi went public on the London Stock Exchange for $700 million. After a hiatus, Maker Faire came back; th

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Tesla sues former Optimus engineer over alleged trade secret theft

Tesla sued a former engineer for allegedly stealing trade secrets from its humanoid robotics program, Optimus, and using them to launch a rival startup. The lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday and originally reported on by Bloomberg, accuses Zhongjie “Jay” Li of stealing trade secrets regarding Tesla’s development of “advanced robotic hand sensors” to launch his startup Proception, a Y Combinator-backed company building robotic hands. The complaint states that Li, who worked at Tesla from Au

Nothing sees the Phone 3 as the ‘right product’ to start scaling up in the US

TL;DR Nothing has confirmed the Phone 3 will be available in the US. The Phone 3 will support AT&T and T-Mobile. The handset will also be available in Canada. Nothing is preparing to launch its next flagship phone — the Phone 3. The new handset will obviously be available in the UK, where the company’s headquarters are located, but will it also come to the US? We now have a definitive answer and a few extra details. Nothing has told TechCrunch that it plans to launch the Phone 3 in the US. W

Apple made a haptic trailer for the F1 movie that only works on iPhones

It 'lets you feel the action of the film right in your hands.' The long-anticipated F1 film comes to theaters on June 27 . To celebrate the pending release, Apple has developed a haptic trailer exclusively for iPhones. This leverages the smartphone's Taptic Engine to let people "feel the action" right in the palm of their hands. Apple promises that viewers will "experience the power of the engines, the rumble of the curbs, and the intensity of every gear shift like never before with responsive

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Rivian will launch hands-off highway driver assist ‘in a few weeks’

Rivian said Thursday it plans to launch a hands-off version of its driver assistance system for highway driving “in a few weeks,” and an “eyes-off” version in 2026. The hands-off system will let Rivian compete with companies like Ford and General Motors, which have both launched similar systems in the past few years. (Ford has named its system BlueCruise, while GM has SuperCruise.) Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (supervised) system, which is not fully autonomous despite its name, requires users to k