You see, all of this grandstanding was done when I was mostly just nipping around town and using the occasional dual carriageway. In the past month or so, I increased my mileage drastically compared with the norm and the Ariya has been a bit of a headache. Range was typically close to 200 miles with […]
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Lex Fridman has done many long interviews on his popular podcast. Even so, the episode with the legendary programmer John Carmack has an unhinged director’s-cut feel to it. Over five hours, Carmack dishes on everything from vector operations to Doom. But it’s something Fridman says, offhand, that really justifies the extended run time: “I think
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Sasha Luccioni, an AI researcher in Montreal, responded to WIRED’s story to say it was “10,000 percent true!” She added that over-the-top interviews are a long-established problem in parts of the industry. During a past job search, she tweeted, one Big Tech company “made me do *12* interviews and a take-home assignment.” (Luccioni declined to
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Porsche is primed to reveal the most powerful Taycan yet built next week, with modified exterior bodywork, ramped-up performance and upgraded aerodynamics. The new edition of the electric sports saloon, which will top the Porsche Taycan range as “the most dynamic Taycan of all time”, was previewed by the German brand with an image that
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Like a nice wool blanket can help a human baby stay warm and healthy, so too does a baby white spruce get protection from a blanket of snow. At the same time, by preventing the chill of winter from reaching the ground, the snow blanket helps thaw permafrost, or frozen soil packed with ancient plant
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After 12 years, 17,000 miles and 17 RAC call-outs our news editor has sold his VW Beetle The first day of Year 13 is sweltering – unusually hot for September. The sixth form car park is packed to the gunnels with freshly acquired Vauxhall Corsas and Renault Clios, Halfords headsets pumping drum and bass through
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Porsche has just revealed an extensively overhauled version of its Taycan EV but already thoughts are turning to what a successor could look like, with the brand committed to retaining the name well into the future. Speaking to Autocar at a prototype drive of the new car, Taycan model line boss Kevin Giek revealed that
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The Fisker Alaska is effectively a pick-up variant of the Ocean SUV, underpinned by an extended version of the firm’s FT31 architecture. It features several practicality-boosting innovations including a so-called ‘Houdini divider’, which drops the bulkhead to connect the cabin directly to the load bay. The entry-level 75kWh model will offer a range of 230 miles
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Close The crumbling values of electric cars pushed rental company Hertz to a loss last quarter, caused the collapse of UK EV provider Onto in September and dented the 2023 bottom line of one Europe’s largest leasing companies after it made a loss on EV disposals. Stable used car values have become critical to new
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On the day architect Tash Clark and her husband, documentary filmmaker Ivan O’Mahoney, heard Big Sky Farm in Roberston, NSW, was listed for sale they drove through a storm to take a look. ‘It was very cheeky’, says Tash. It wasn’t an ‘official viewing’, but it was the first time the property had ever been
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