How do automotive manufacturers determine what to sell in their portfolio? Beyond the obvious of understanding what the market wants, I wonder how granular one needs to make it. Appealing to niches at a higher resolution will improve sales, and building similar models do not increase development costs significantly, but what is the optimal point between market appeal and product redundancy? It often fascinates me to look at BMW's lineup. Back in...
In my mind, it is hard to find someone who does not like ice cream. Barring allergies or intolerance to lactose, I know many who would endure an upset tummy to have a scoop of frozen goodness. My girlfriend also falls into this camp. Non-dairy options are available, but they can be quite expensive. As such, when I obtained a Ninja Creami, which is a small kitchen appliance capable of mixing up ice cream and other frozen desserts, my first batches...
From The Verge: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg offered employees $30,000, or six months of salary, to leave the company if they didn’t agree with his battle against WP Engine. In an update on Thursday night, Mullenweg said 159 people, making up 8.4 percent of the company, took the offer.
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From PC Mag: Texas is suing social video platform TikTok over children's privacy, claiming the app is sharing and selling minors' personal information in a way that violates the state's Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act (SCOPE Act). TikTok is also being accused of violating...
From PC World: Austria-based Noctua has become a fan favorite for its high-quality cooling products and understated style. The company has been banking on that goodwill to spread its silent wings into new product lines, like partnering with Asus on brown graphics cards and even making keycaps and a...
From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR is thrilled to announce two new additions to its K70 CORE series: K70 CORE TKL and K70 CORE TKL WIRELESS. A fresh tenkeyless profile meets the smooth typefeel and premier performance of the original K70 CORE, for versatile gaming that never runs out of deskspace...
From The Verge: Tesla issued a recall notice for the Cybertruck due to faulty software causing a slow-to-display rear camera feed. It’s the fifth recall for the polarizing electric truck since Tesla started customer deliveries last November. Other recalls have involved faulty wipers, loose trim, and...
From PC Mag: Office 2024 is now available for a one-time purchase on Mac and Windows.
Office 2024 includes the usual Microsoft apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) and costs $149.99 for one PC or Mac. For another $100, you can get Office Home & Business 2024, which includes Outlook and the...
From PC World: Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer and more accessible.
The World Wide Web Foundation was founded in 2009 by Tim Berners-Lee, the...
From PC Mag: Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it fended off a record-breaking DDoS attack that reached a whopping 3.8Tbps.
The attack exceeds the 3.47Tbps DDoS that Microsoft encountered in November 2021, the previous record holder. In both cases, the hackers launched a “volumetric...
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