When you’re shopping for holiday gifts, auto and Ford accessories probably don’t cross your mind, at least not initially. Unless, of course, you’re planning some gift ideas for the car enthusiast you know. But actually, Ford has a lot of different gift options even for those who aren’t big into cars and vehicles. I know, it’s an odd proposal but hear me out. From electronics and exterior accessories to truck bed augments, interior gear, and even outdoor-friendly gear — like for camping — Ford has a ton of options. Just to provide some examples, first aid safety kits, truck bed…
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Every once in a while, a deal comes down the pipeline so good, you almost have to buy it, even if you weren’t planning to. Like the price is just too good to be true. That’s exactly what’s happening with a Lenovo Chromebook deal over at StackSocial. More specifically, a refurbished Lenovo 11.6-inch Chromebook 2nd Gen, from 2019, is only $60 today, down from $150. That is an absolutely phenomenal, almost chaotic, deal. There is only a limited quantity available, so I suggest you hurry if you’re interested. They’ll be gone soon. Built for classrooms, but ready for anything, this…
We here at The Tech Spot are no strangers to LG’s phenomenal lineup of OLED TVs, and the incredible B4 Series is a 2024 set we’re always glad to recommend. As luck would have it, the largest version of the LG B4 is on sale for the holidays! Right now, when you order the LG 83-inch B4 Series OLED through Best Buy, you’ll only pay $2,500. At full price, this model sells for $5,000. We also have a huge list of LG TV deals and OLED TV deals you may want to check out if an 83-inch TV is a…
PlayStation Plus is ending 2024 with a bang, adding a meaty batch of compelling PS4 and PS5 games to its PS Plus Premium and Extra catalogs just before the holiday break. Of all the new games added, the most significant title included in the batch is Forspoken, a PS5-exclusive action RPG with roots going back to the first PlayStation Showcase for the PS5. Forspoken was revealed in June 2020 under the codename Project Athia. When it finally did come out, Forspoken proved divisive because it had exhilarating magic-driven traversal and combat, but snarky dialogue that annoyed many players. Square Enix…
Honda Motor Co. will stop funding a joint venture with General Motors and Cruise to launch a robotaxi service in Japan, now that GM has pulled the plug on Cruise and its commercial robotaxi ambitions, reports The Nikkei. GM said Tuesday it would cease funding Cruise and instead absorb the company and combine it with its own efforts to develop personal autonomous vehicles. While GM owns 90% of Cruise, Honda holds a small minority stake alongside other investors like T. Rowe Price and Microsoft. GM said it plans to buy back shares from minority stakeholders and increase its ownership stake…
Hyundai’s electric vertical takeoff and landing startup Supernal is shifting its global headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Irvine, California and asking around three dozen of workers to relocate, The Tech Spot has learned. The company told The Tech Spot about 5% of its total workforce — roughly 35 to 40 people — are being asked to relocate to California. Supernal declined to say how many will remain in D.C. But the move affects a majority of the people located there, Data from LinkedIn and a source who spoke to The Tech Spot on the condition of anonymity show around 45…
Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s a lot of churn,” Rao, NeuBird’s CEO, told The Tech Spot. “It doesn’t help that the modern IT stack just keeps getting more and more complex. Humans alone cannot possibly keep up with this kind of change.” To deal with that increased complexity, NeuBird built…
In a press briefing on Wednesday, the Pentagon said it has no evidence that the mysterious drones that have been flying over New Jersey and other parts of the northeast U.S. in recent weeks were coming from a foreign entity, nor were they U.S. military drones. The comments come a day after a U.S. Congressional hearing focused on the increasing drone activity, where several Capital Hill lawmakers expressed frustration with the lack of information and response to the drone incursions. The FBI told lawmakers during Tuesday’s hearing that it’s working with state and local authorities to investigate the situation and…
Green ammonia startup Amogy has raised $11.2 million of a targeted $90 million round, an SEC filing reveals. The new round’s target is significantly smaller than its last round — a $139 million Series B-1 that was announced in March 2023 — highlighting the challenges that middle-stage climate startups face today when trying to attract investment. Amogy did not immediately reply to questions about the funding round. The company is focused on various transportation markets, including maritime shipping, long-haul trucking, and agriculture. Earlier this year, Amogy tested its ammonia-to-power technology in a retrofitted tugboat, and it previously tested it in…
Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Threads on Wednesday were all experiencing issues to varying degrees as a result of a global outage affecting Meta’s apps. The cause of the outage is not yet known, but Meta has acknowledged a “technical issue” in a post on X. The company at 1:48 p.m. ET wrote, “We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.” Instagram posted a similar message on X, along with the hashtag #instagramdown for visibility. WhatsApp…
