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Announced at CES 2025, the new Asus Zenbook A14 is one of those devices that can’t fully be explained without experiencing it yourself. The lightest version of the laptop weighs just 2.18 pounds. For reference, the 13-inch MacBook Air weighs more than a half pound more at 2.7 pounds, despite being the lightest of the best laptops you can buy. But when it comes to the Zenbook A14, the numbers doesn’t do it justice. When I picked up this laptop for the first time, I was astounded by how light it felt. I experienced that strange sensation when an object…
Instagram Threads is developing new features that would bring its user experience more in line with that of X (formerly Twitter) and the social network Bluesky. The Meta-owned company is internally prototyping the ability to set a display name and add a cover image to profiles. A spokesperson for the company confirmed to The Tech Spot on Tuesday that the two features are not currently available to the public. The new additions were first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who often finds unreleased features while they’re still under development. Since Threads is integrated with Instagram, users aren’t able to…
Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing. Hundreds of feet of rock formed a tidy barrier for the next 40 years as countries continued to bomb the subsurface. Now, a nuclear startup wants to bury a small reactor underground, using depth as a substitute for the tons of concrete required to safeguard aboveground reactors. The company, Deep Fission, signed a deal on Tuesday with data center developer Endeavour to build 2 gigawatts worth of subterranean nuclear power. Nuclear startups are having a moment, driven…
Xpeng Aero HT, the aerospace company under Chinese EV startup Xpeng, unveiled, its “modular flying car,” the so-called Land Aircraft Carrie. It’s ssentially an electric minivan with a small folding eVTOL (vertical takeoff and landing vehicle) tucked in the back, which can be rolled out and launched into flight. The company says it already has 3,000 intent orders for the vehicle and that it plans to begin mass-production this year, with first deliveries planned for 2026. Potential customers and use cases for the vehicle include thrill-seeking individuals with deep pockets – the Land Aircraft Carrier is priced “below $300,000” –…
Newly released data from messaging app Telegram reveals a sharp rise in the number of data demands it fulfilled over the past year for users’ data from requesting law enforcement agencies. The rise in fulfilled user requests comes months after French authorities arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in August in part for the company’s longstanding refusal to provide user data in response to a child exploitation investigation. Soon after Durov’s arrest, Telegram appeared to relax its policy on how it handles abuse reports. Telegram’s latest transparency data — requestable only with a Telegram account and limited to the region where the…
Honda is adding to its so-called 0 Series of EVs with a new SUV it just revealed at CES 2025. The company showed off a mid-size SUV prototype dubbed, surely enough, the 0 SUV, which will join the 0 Saloon that Honda showed off at last year’s show. A production version of the SUV will debut first in North America in the first half in 2026, and it will be built at Honda’s “EV Hub” factory in Ohio. The 0 SUV will then go to other markets around the world. Honda will start building the 0 Saloon at the same…
The U.S. government announced Tuesday that its long-awaited cybersecurity labeling program for consumer internet-connected devices will launch in 2025. The Biden administration first introduced the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark in June 2023, saying the voluntary labeling program would “raise the bar” for internet-connected devices by enabling Americans to make informed decisions about the security of the devices they buy. While the initiative was initially slated to launch in late 2024, the White House confirmed that the program will now be “open for business” this year. No exact launch date was given, but the announcement states that companies will “soon” be…
BMW pioneered modern automotive infotainment systems with its original iDrive of the early 2000s. But for its next-generation EVs, the automaker is rethinking everything. Revealed at CES 2025, BMW Panoramic iDrive will be the default hardware and software setup for new models starting at the end of this year — including the Neue Klasse (German for “new class”) EVs that represent a similar clean-sheet approach in other areas, from batteries to exterior styling. This latest version of iDrive adopts a thin display surface at the base of the windshield, spanning the entire dashboard. This setup, which is similar to what…
Satechi has just introduced a fresh portfolio of charging gear at CES 2025 that taps into the next-gen Qi2 wireless charging standard. The first addition to the lineup is the OntheGo power bank, which comes in 10,000 mAh and 5,000 mAh variants. These power banks offer up to 15-watt charging output and embrace an improved heat dissipation design. They natively support iPhones with MagSafe hardware, but will also play just fine with Qi2-ready Android phones or devices protected with a magnetic case. A cool perk of the new OntheGo series is support for passthrough charging, which means they can supply juice…
