The Aptera is an electric autocycle with a drag coefficient of 0.13, modern supercars are between 0.30 to 0.39. The carbon fiber body is made in Modena, Italy, at the facility of C.P.C. Group that makes parts for several brands, including Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Maserati. Assembly takes place in Carlsbad, CA. The Aptera has a 400 mile range. Solar panels add 40 miles of range per day to the vehicle, allowing free charging on days you drive less than 40 miles. The three wheeler is a two seater hatchback with plenty of cargo space for your needs. The launch edition target price is $40,000 and goes in to production early 2026
At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors
Hobart woman Renee Woodleigh is selling a 1937 edition of JRR Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.
She says it is a first edition, which a rare book specialist says could "absolutely" be true
The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet.
To qualify your website must satisfy both of the following requirements: It must be an actual site that contains a reasonable amount of information, not just a couple of links on a page; Your total UNCOMPRESSED web resources must not exceed 512KB
superfan has recreated Frodo’s exact journey from Bag End to Mount Doom in a 10-hour virtual trek through Lord of the Rings Online, an 18-year-old MMO.
Despite Boromir’s iconic warning, it turns out you can, in fact, simply walk into Mordor
Cocktails and checkmates: the young Britons giving chess a new lease of life
Laid-back clubs proving a hit in London, Birmingham and elsewhere as people look for new ways to socialise
study from the Complexity Science Hub Vienna finds that as people's close social circles expanded from two to five friends around the rise of social media (2008-2010), polarization in society spiked
In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.
This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.
AI Assistants Misrepresent News Content 45% of the Time
study reveals that foreign suspects are mentioned three times more in German media than their actual share in police statistics, influencing public perception of crime and migration
Legendary developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden 2004, has died
Norway has effectively achieved its 2025 goal of 100% electric new car sales
patterns that arise in origami can be translated into a set of points that together form the amplituhedron
This zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE starting from the front cover of the first issue (top left) to the last page of the final edition (bottom right)
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the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, said it would invest as much as $2 billion in Polymarket at an $8 billion pre-money valuation
Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe