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There's a military aphorism that generals are always fighting the last war. It's a natural human tendency to focus on the kinds of threats you're used to while playing down the likelihood or importance of some new sort of attack. Of course novel threats can crop up…

Electric vehicle subscription company, Steer EV, announced today it’s entering into an agreement with Enterprise Fleet Management to lease over 1,000 EVs. Steer EV was bought out by Facedrive, a Canadian ride-sharing company, in 2020 for $3.25 million. Since then, the EV subscription market has taken off. With this in mind, Steer EV’s new agreement with Enterprise Fleet Management expects to be a growing trend as businesses and consumers transition to cleaner, sustainable solutions. Companies like Autonomy and…

The Haselden family packed into a Cessna 182 plane for vacations in the summer like most families in the 1970s would hop in a station wagon. One summer, the family of five spent two days flying from Denver to Marathon, Fla., for a fishing trip, stopping at least three airports along the way to refuel and rest. “That’s a long way to go in a small plane, but it was like our family truckster,” said Byron Haselden, the youngest of the family’s three sons and CEO of Haselden Construction. Flying started as a hobby for the…

via Lionsgate Mel Gibson’s career has been virtually nothing but a series of notable ups and downs throughout the 21st Century, with the actor and filmmaker starring in as many action thrillers as humanly possible, which has in turn thrown up some of the best and worst movies of his career. On one hand, you’ve got the likes of Blood Father and Boss Level, but on the other lies Panama and Force of Nature. The latter two share the distinction of being the worst-reviewed entries in Gibson’s entire filmography,…

Former Indy Racing League competitor Sam Schmidt is continuing to break new ground for accessible driving technology. The Arrow McLaren SP team co-owner has completed the signature hill climb at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed using head movements and his breath to steer — the first time anyone has demonstrated the feature at the UK event. Schmidt drove a McLaren 720S Spider modified by Arrow Electronics to track his head using infrared cameras. He controlled acceleration and braking by inhaling and exhaling…

WASHINGTON: US lawmakers urged Alphabet Inc's leading Google search engine to give accurate results to people seeking abortions rather than sometimes sending them to "crisis pregnancy centers," which steer woman away from the procedures. The request came in a letter, whose top signatories were Senator Mark Warner and Representative Elissa Slotkin, sent to Google on Friday and first reported by Reuters. The letter was prompted by a study released last week by the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate. The study…

US lawmakers urged Alphabet's leading Google search engine to give accurate results to people seeking abortions rather than sometimes sending them to "crisis pregnancy centres," which steer woman away from the procedures.The request came in a letter, whose top signatories were Senator Mark Warner and Representative Elissa Slotkin, sent to Google on Friday and first reported by Reuters.The letter was prompted by a study released last week by the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate. The study found that 11 percent…

TikTok says it has completed migrating its US users' data to Oracle's servers in the US  —  TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle Corp (ORCL.N), in a move that could address U.S. regulatory concerns over data integrity on the popular video app, the company confirmed to Reuters. TikTok says it has completed migrating its US users' data to Oracle's servers in the US  —  TikTok has completed migrating its U.S. users' information to servers at Oracle Corp (ORCL.N), in a move that…

Top research universities in just a handful of U.S. states conduct the majority of research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), while institutions in half the country receive only crumbs. The U.S. Senate wants NSF to correct that longstanding geographic imbalance. But its solution—to immediately allocate 20% of NSF’s budget to what is currently a small program serving those have-not states—is drawing fierce opposition from many universities and nearly 100 members of…