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Drivers can now have less junk in their trunk, and more in their frunk.People have long prized having storage space in the back of their cars, whether for stashing tools or tailgating. As more buy electric vehicles, they’ll increasingly be tossing stuff in an inelegantly named space where the engine used to be. Meet the frunk, for front trunk. EVs trade out the engine for a battery pack, which typically lines the vehicle’s floor. That opens up a big front-end cavity for a new role. While under-hood storage…

Cat-DEF Technology. Credit: Southwest Research Institute Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) demonstrated the effectiveness of its CAT-DEF technology during the WCX World Congress Experience in Detroit, which took place April 5–7. The advancement successfully reduced heavy-duty diesel engine nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions to meet the California Air Resources Board (CARB) 2027 standards.…

Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh met with union organizers at the White House on Thursday as the administration looks to boost unionization campaigns.Participants in the meeting, which featured an unscheduled appearance by President Joe Biden, discussed organisers' efforts to form unions in their workplaces, and how those could prompt workers around the country to mount similar organisation campaigns, according to a readout from the White House. Biden thanked them for bolstering organising…

Mike Colville may be the senior manager for complex feature integration for GMC, but in his spare time he’s a straight-up gearhead. He’s also a competitive off-road racer and has created more than a dozen custom vehicles from home. That includes the Ginger Chicken, his 4500-pound behemoth build that ran with a 700-horsepower V8 and four-wheel drive, which Colville raced for two years at the hardcore King of the Hammers.Colville brought his vast knowledge and enthusiasm to the GMC Hummer EV; he has been on the project…

Over 97.5 percent of fixed broadband connections in India meet the 2Mbps speed threshold recommended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) earlier this month, telecom network intelligence firm Ookla said on Thursday. The regulator proposed to revise the minimum broadband speed to 2Mbps from 512Kbps. Ookla stated that the revision didn't shift the needle much. As per the data shared by the Seattle, Washington-based company, as much as 60 percent of the Indian broadband consumer base received the basic 2- to…

Dying Light 2 Stay Human — out now on PC and consoles — might have a “2” in the name but it's not really a sequel. If you are new to the Dying Light series, worry not. It isn't absolutely necessary to play the first title because there aren't a lot of connections to it in the “sequel”. Sure, they mention some familiar names back and forth — and there are similarities in gameplay, combat, and interactions, but Dying Light 2 Stay Human works as a standalone title. The story here is set around 20 years post the virus…

Google Meet is adding new improvements to make video meetings more productive. The video-calling platform will now allow you to exit from meetings when you are the only user left. With this update, when you're the only participant in a meeting for five minutes, you'll receive a prompt asking whether you want to stay or leave the meeting. If you don't respond after two minutes, you will automatically leave the meeting. Further, in order to make switching between menus easier, Google is centralising host management controls…

Twitter plans to hold a meeting for employees concerned about Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's influence on the company's board, a Twitter spokesperson said Friday.The Twitter official did not disclose the timeframe or format for the meeting.The social media company named Musk to the board on Tuesday after the outspoken and polarizing executive disclosed he had acquired a more than nine percent stake in the company, making him Twitter's largest shareholder.In announcing the appointment, Twitter Chief Executive Parag…

Google Meet has been one of the most preferred choices to conduct official meetings or education classes online. The search giant keeps upgrading Meet every now and then with new settings and features, as Work From Home continues to be the new normal for most organisations across the globe. In the latest update, Google Meet has added new co-hosting settings, which allows the host to assign co-hosts before the meeting starts, in order to avoid wastage of time. This comes along with the additional update that let the host…