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While faucet design is likely going to be a big factor in your kitchen faucet decision, the functionality of kitchen faucets comes down to five major components. Mounting Assuming you are purchasing a faucet for a pre-existing sink, you will first have to know how many holes are available for installation: one, two or three. … Read more

Warner’s handling of Cartoon Network and its animated legacy in recent months is something that could diplomatically be described as “not ideal,” between the closure of the iconic Cartoon Network Studios building last year, the cancelation of multiple series, and, most recently, the surprising complete closure of Cartoon Network’s website and its archive of free … Read more

What sorts of offsets do you focus on? People have different opinions as to what is good enough, and they’re not all equal. We primarily focus on the creation of renewable energy, since that’s what gives the best positive impact to using electric vehicles. Where we can, it’s technology in the countries in which we … Read more

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine. There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take … Read more

Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don’t want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes … Read more

On Tuesday evening local time, Motier Ventures, an early stage tech investment firm based in Paris, unveiled a startup hub called La Maison. This relatively new investor in the French tech ecosystem is the family office of the Houzé family — the owners of upmarket fashion retailer the Galeries Lafayette Group. As the Galeries Lafayette … Read more

What you need to know OnePlus China head Li Jie Louis showcases BOE’s upcoming display, which will likely be used for the OnePlus 13. The display will likely measure 6.82 inches and be curved on all sides. The OnePlus 13 is also rumored to launch soon after this month’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is revealed. … Read more

TL;DR Motorola has launched the ThinkPhone 25 smartphone. The new device is effectively a smaller ThinkPhone with mid-range performance and a telephoto camera. The phone costs ~$552 in Europe and won’t be available in the US. Update: October 2, 2024 (3:50 AM ET): Motorola has confirmed to Android Authority that the newly announced ThinkPhone 25 … Read more

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law giving the California Energy Commission the authority to require bidirectional charging in electric vehicles (EVs) in the future — although no timeline is set. Bidirectional charging allows EVs to not only charge from the grid but also supply electricity back to the grid, potentially enhancing grid resiliency, supporting … Read more

Can anything that is programmable have an embedded LLM? Apparently so. llama.ttf is a plain old font that looks like Open Sans—you can download it and install it. We don’t know whether this is a massive vulnerability or a way to embed AI in almost any text-based application. Probably both. It may just be a … Read more