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Less than twenty-four hours after announcing the closing of its purchase of an Ohio assembly plant from Lordstown Motors, Foxconn and its partner Fisker Inc. announced the facility will soon be home to production of the latter’s upcoming PEAR EV. We first learned of Project PEAR, an acronym for Personal Electric Automotive Revolution, in February of 2021 when Fisker Inc. ($FSR) announced a new partnership with Foxconn. This followed a similar strategy Fisker took with its flagship Ocean EV – recruiting the…

Optimus Prime is officially a Lego set, and not just in statue form — with 19 points of articulation, the Danish brickmaker has created a 1,508-piece Optimus Prime G1 action figure you can actually transform. OK, yes, you’ll still need to do that conversion yourself — it’s no walking, talking robot like the $750 self-transforming Optimus Prime we played with last year. But for $169.99 this June 1st, the Lego version is a lot more affordable and doesn’t require electricity just to stand.…

Pineau helped change how research is published in several of the largest conferences, introducing a checklist of things that researchers must submit alongside their results, including code and details about how experiments are run. Since she joined Meta (then Facebook) in 2017, she has championed that culture in its AI lab.  “That commitment to open science is why I’m here,” she says. “I wouldn’t be here on any other terms.” Ultimately, Pineau wants to change how we judge AI. “What we call state-of-the-art nowadays…

Ventje is a car made for the work-from-anywhere types benefiting from the new hybrid and fully-remote workforce enabled by the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve seen one in person and the build quality is impressive. It’s a German engineered Swiss army knife of Dutch design — on wheels. Ventje starts with a new or used VW Transporter van and uses CNC precision to convert the interior into a multi-purpose space to work, lounge, cook, eat, sleep, and play. And when the weather’s good, the interior can be transformed into outdoor…

Astronomy experts say they originally misread the secrets of the night sky last month: it turns out that a rocket expected to crash into the Moon in early March was built by China, not SpaceX.A rocket will indeed strike the lunar surface on March 4, but contrary to what had been announced, it was built not by Elon Musk's company, but by Beijing, experts now say.The rocket is now said to be 2014-065B, the booster for the Chang'e 5-T1, launched in 2014 as part of the Chinese space agency's lunar exploration programme.The…

In recent years, Amazon has spent billions of dollars on new warehouses that cut into profits, explaining to investors that it had no choice but to meet ever-rising consumer demand.It turns out, Amazon may have built too much, too soon, analysts say.The world's largest online retailer on Thursday reported $2 billion (roughly Rs. 15,300 crore) in incremental costs from having excess fulfillment and transportation capacity, a dramatic shift from just two years ago when Amazon had to turn away merchants' goods because it had…

The Apple AirPods weren't the first true wireless earphones, but they've arguably defined the category, and are popular the world over. However, Apple has been clear about one thing from the very beginning: AirPods are made to be used with Apple devices, and specifically need to be connected to an iOS device to unlock their entire feature set. While there are plenty of true wireless headsets that allow similar features and customisation through apps on Android, the platform has been missing a ‘hero' product in the true…

After a long hiatus, Xiaomi has once again kickstarted its tablet portfolio in India with the launch of the Pad 5. This feature-packed tablet is unlike most others in its segment as it offers a high-resolution display, powerful processor, and even supports Xiaomi's Smart Pen. There are, however, a few notable omissions which might turn out to be deal-breakers for some.Unlike the plastic build of the first Mi Pad (Review), the Xiaomi Pad 5 looks quite premium. It has a metal frame sandwiched between the display and a…

Minecraft, the massively popular sandbox-style game that was acquired by Microsoft in 2014, has received a Web3 update thanks to developers at crypto-gaming project NFT Worlds. It is a project built on third-party Minecraft servers with a Polygon-based overlay and it is on the Ethereum sidechain that offers low gas fees for the users. The layer aims to create a metaverse-like experience that's available to the 141 million users who log in monthly on average to play Minecraft.The NFT Worlds' blockchain layer on Minecraft…