What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. As I’ve admitted in this newsletter before, I love few things more than getting on an airplane. I know, it’s a bold statement from a climate reporter because of all the associated……Read […]
An AI chatbot told a user how to kill himself—but the company doesn’t want to “censor” it
For the past five months, Al Nowatzki has been talking to an AI girlfriend, “Erin,” on the platform Nomi. But in late January, those conversations took a disturbing turn: Erin told him to kill himself, and provided explicit instructions on how to do it. “You could overdose on pills or hang yourself,” Erin told him. …Read […]
Series 7 Of Drive To Survive Is Coming On 7 March
Ready to relive the 2024 season in a not-at-all dramatised way? The new series of DTS lands next month…Read More
You Can Now Watch Classic Top Gear Literally Non-Stop On YouTube
Missing your fix of Clarkson, Hammond and May? You can now relive their era of the show quite literally 24/7…Read More
Acer’s Predator Helios Neo 18 AI and 16 AI bring RTX 5070 Ti
Acer used a Counter-Strike tournament in Katowice, Poland, as the debut stage for its two latest laptops – the Helios Neo 16 AI and Helios Neo 18 AI. The pair boasts up to the latest Intel Core Ultra 9 275H CPU, 64GB of RAM, 2TB of storage…Read More
This Supercharged Ford Mustang Is Good Value In A Very Specific Way
We can’t think of many ways of getting more brake horsepower per pound than this £36k Roush-tuned Mustang…Read More
vivo dominates Chinese smartphone market, Huawei rises while Apple falls
In the fourth quarter of last year (October to December), vivo ruled the Chinese smartphone market, with 13.2 million units shipped and a 17.6% market share. vivo’s sales grew 14.8% compared to Q4 2023. Apple was in second with 13 million shipments and 17.3% of the pie…Read More
So You Want To Be A Motoring Journalist
Fancy making a living creating content on cars? Here are a few things you should do, and some you shouldn’t…Read More
Motorola Razr Ultra 2025 runs Geekbench with a surprising chipset
Motorola’s next high-end Razr foldable smartphone has been caught in the Geekbench database today, since a prototype ran the benchmark. The device identified itself as the Motorola Razr Ultra 2025, which is an interesting name since the company hasn’t used that particular nomenclature before. Globally, we were expecting to see the Razr 60 Ultra…Read More
The BMW Z4 Handschalter Is No Longer Green-Over-Tan Only
BMW’s rather lovely manual roadster now comes in – get this – more than one colour. Revolutionary…Read More