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Europe Tells Automakers That Buttons and Knobs Are Safer Than Touchscreens

  European regulators have told automakers to ditch the touchscreens in favor of knobs and buttons if they want to get a better safety rating in the continent. As the Times reports, the European New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) is warning that as of January 2026, automakers will have to include physical controls to achieve […]
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Clueless Air Force Official Spills Military Secrets to Random Woman on Dating Site

Anything 4 Luv Like something out of a Cold War-era satire, a new court filing reveals just how far one retired military officer went for love. As federal court filings reveal, former Air Force official David Slater has been charged with sharing top-secret information with a woman who claimed to be living in Ukraine at […]
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Every Single Meta Site Just Went Down

Down Detected Practically every single website owned by Facebook parent Meta is currently down for at least tens of thousands of users, as of Tuesday morning. That includes Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp, as reported by Downdetector. The outage appears to even affect several Google services, including YouTube. As Variety reports, users are experiencing […]
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Rad Power Bikes debuts fire-resistant batteries — and four new e-bike models

/ ‘This is ushering in a new era for Rad,’ said CEO Phil Molyneux. p>span:first-child]:text-gray-13 [&_.duet–article-byline-and]:text-gray-13″> By Andrew J. Hawkins, transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The…

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NASA Launches Astronauts After Finding Crack in Spacecraft During Countdown

Cracked Dragon Over the weekend, three NASA astronauts and a Roscosmos cosmonaut launched on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, the eighth official crew rotation mission involving the spacecraft. That's despite ground control spotting a small crack forming on the seal of the Crew Dragon's hatch during countdown, a scary discovery […]
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