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Tesla I know it sounds crazy, but a new MediaTek chip powered by Nvidia graphics promises to bring AAA gaming, ray tracing, and the coveted DLSS 3 to your car. The chips I’m talking about are MediaTek’s new Dimensity Auto Cockpit, which integrated an Nvidia GPU, along with a host of AI and gaming capabilities. It’s not clear what Nvidia graphics are packed on MediaTek’s chips, but clearly, they’re using some variation of the Ada Lovelace architecture we see on RTX 40-series GPUs. Those are the only GPUs that support…

Maskot | Maskot | Getty ImagesAfter a year of supply shortages and climbing borrowing costs, 2024 is shaping up to be a better time to buy a car.The average transaction price for a new car in the U.S. in February was $47,244, down 2.2% from February 2023. That's also down 5.4% from the market peak in December 2022, according to Kelley Blue Book.But new cars are still generally expensive; prices are nearly 14% higher than in February 2021.Incentives such as rebates and discounts are slowly making a comeback as inventory…

Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: Used car marketplace Carvana, whose stock fell from $360 to $4, has now rallied to $86, avoiding a financial abyss after restructuring its $9B debt in 2023 — Online used-car dealer's cost cuts pay off even as sales volumes lag pandemic frenzy — Ernie Garcia insisted for years Carvana … Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: Used car marketplace Carvana, whose stock fell from $360 to $4, has now rallied to $86, avoiding a financial abyss after…

One of the things we associate with the military the most is discipline. Without it, high status and order would not be possible, and anyone who tries to disrupt it is often penalized.However, this officer’s punishment for security workers was not particularly well thought out. Only when he ordered every third car to be checked instead of the usual 15 did he realize the traffic jam he had caused and how it would affect his career.Unfortunately for him, waiting in the 2-mile-long line was a 3-star general who was very…

Last year, at the IAA show in Berlin, BMW gave us a first look at what it calls the Neue Klasse, a "new class" of sedan that would not only drive BMW into its electric future, but also create a platform with greater efficiency and driving dynamics than we've yet seen from the German brand.Now, the company is showing us an evolution of that concept. A taller one at that, to see just how that same idea for future electrification would apply to an SUV. In keeping with BMW's naming conventions, this one's called the Neue…

Chinese consumer electronics company Xiaomi revealed Thurs., Dec. 28, 2023, its long-awaited electric car, but declined to share its price or specific release date.CNBC | Evelyn ChengBEIJING — Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi announced Tuesday it would formally launch its long-awaited electric car on March 28.The company claimed in a social media post its SU7 electric car "would be delivered as soon as it is launched," according to CNBC's translation of the post written in Chinese. The post said the company was opening…

Norway has had massive success with EV adoption — 82% of new cars sold in the country in 2023 were electric, according to the Norwegian Road Federation. This high adoption rate can be attributed to the generous subsidies the Scandinavian country has offered to electric vehicle owners as well as its investment in charging infrastructure.Tesla's sales in the country may represent only a sliver of the 1.8 million vehicles the company delivered globally last year, but its importance to the EV maker goes beyond revenue.…

Photo: Shutterstock-Pixelsquid (Shutterstock)The Flipper Zero has been under scrutiny ever since last month when Canadian officials claimed that it was to blame for a rise in car thefts in the country and proposed a ban on the popular (and cheap) penetration-testing device. How Important Was it for Jason Reitman to be a Part of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?This week, the multi-tools’ developers published a statement on their site arguing that they have been unfairly singled out as the hacker boogeymen behind Canada’s car…

The hallowed beige flight suit was not in the plan. “It wasn’t originally scripted that way,” says Annie Potts of her character Janine’s move from long-suffering receptionist to action hero in the latest Ghostbusters film. Potts has starred, however briefly, in all of the films in the franchise, including the 2016 all-female version. The forthcoming film, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, is the fifth Ghostbusters film in all, and is released later this month.“It wasn’t until about halfway through shooting that Gil came to me…

Last Updated: March 20, 2024, 14:23 ISTUP Man's Car Turned 'Chopper' Seized, Understand What is Section 207 Of Motor Vehicle Act? (Photo: Zee News)Discover how a man from Uttar Pradesh landed in trouble for modifying his car to look like a chopper and violating the Motor Vehicle Act.Police in Uttar Pradesh have halted the ambitious plans of a local resident in Ambedkar Nagar who ingeniously transformed a car into a makeshift helicopter!Ishwar Deen, the innovative creator, invested over two-and-a-half lakh rupees into his…