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With electric vehicle adoption accelerating, so too is the need servicing public charging stations. Unlike fixing an old gas pump, some companies are using technology to both service and learn from the stations, as a way to improve EV charging tech.More than a quarter of public EV charging stations were found to be non-functioning, according to a survey done in California by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and Cool the Earth, an area nonprofit. That's why maintenance companies like Charge…

MySmartPrice/OnLeaks Samsung’s slate of next-gen hardware has started popping up in leaks, once again, weeks ahead of their launch. This time around, @OnLeaks (via MySmartPrice) has shared renders supposedly depicting the Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, the more upmarket trim of the vanilla Galaxy Watch 6. Now, Samsung is once again playing a minimalist game with the design, retaining the signature round dial and the curved hook aesthetics of its previous smartwatches. However, the biggest change in 2023 will be the return…

Stanford scientists have discovered a major biological mechanism behind severe depression, and shown how to treat it. Signals between two key parts of the brain seem to flow the wrong way in people with depression, but magnetic stimulation reverses them, drastically improving symptoms.In recent decades scientists have developed a non-invasive method of inducing electrical activity in specific parts of the brain. Known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), this process has been shown to have a wide range of benefits,…

Google has today released Android 14 Beta 1.1. As the rather weird naming implies, this is a mere small update to the first beta, which came out a couple of weeks ago. The next, second beta is scheduled for next month, so you might be wondering why Google would go through the trouble of releasing an intermediary version right now. The answer is bugs. Apparently the company thought some of the bugs running around in Beta 1 were too annoying to let be until Beta 2 comes around, and that's how Beta 1.1 came about. The…

Last updated: April 21st, 2023 at 15:26 UTC+02:00 Samsung Pass appears to have some issues worldwide, or at least it used to have until moments ago. Numerous Samsung Pass users in different countries reported an issue wherein Samsung Pass would refuse to function and show a “No network connection” error. No troubleshooting attempts yielded any results. The error screen instructed affected users to “check network settings and try again.” But users confirmed that their connection was working flawlessly. According to…

Apple has issued a note to developers to explain a new feature that will make it easier for people to deal with App Store payment issues without having to delve into the Settings app to do it.Currently, people who have a billing problem when making a subscription payment are left with no option but to go and find the issue and fix it themselves in the Settings app. That's all changing so long as those people are using iOS 16.4 or iPadOS 16.4 or later.Apple also says that there is no need for app developers to do anything…

Hollywood actor, film producer, and retired professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger has recently made headlines for various reasons, including being involved in an accident where he crashed his car into a female cyclist. The former Governor of California has since released a video on his Twitter profile that shows him fixing a pothole on a road in his neighborhood. The video was recently shared on the social media platform and has gone viral on the internet. Today, after the whole neighborhood has been upset…

Getting an award is always exciting, especially when it comes to fixing software bugs. For this reason, many companies offer rewards to users for finding errors, and some of these rewards can be quite generous. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is no exception, and the company is now offering a significant prize to anyone who finds a bug in this popular artificial intelligence program. Bug-Hunting Experts: The Best Chance of Winning Believe it or not, there are many programmers out there who possess the necessary skills to…

A price-fixing lawsuit that Ohio filed Monday against several firms that manage billions of dollars in drug benefits ratchets up scrutiny of the companies while shining a spotlight on their new tactic using overseas subsidiaries.The lawsuit filed Monday by the Ohio attorney general in a state court alleges Cigna Corp. , Humana Inc. and Prime Therapeutics LLC shared pricing and other information gathered by a Swiss subsidiary to gain leverage during negotiations…

In 1967 chemical company DuPont gutted a floor of an office building in Delaware and rebuilt it. The firm put almost everyone into one big room with low partitions. In one corner, they provided a lounge with armchairs and Eero Saarinen end tables. This was the first major corporate adaptation of an “open-plan” office in the U.S., following the latest thinking by German architectural designers. Those designers held that companies increasingly relied on professionals—or knowledge workers, a term coined in 1959—who bristled…