Volkswagen’s head of compliance pleads guilty in emissions scandal

Last September, Volkswagen’s James Robert Lang pled guilty in federal court on charges of conspiring to defraud US regulatory agencies and consumers. The veteran Volkswagon AG engineer admitted to his part in creating software for the EA 189 engine t…

Everything You Thought You Knew About Screw Top Wine Bottles Is Total Garbage

Forget the corkscrew.

Evangelical Leaders Backing Trump Are More Hypocritical—And Dangerous—Than Ever

They’ve been waiting for an assault on LGBTQ rights. Trump is delivering.

Senate Democrats Introduce Bill Allowing Medicare Buy-In At 55

The announcement shows how the party’s health care views are shifting to the left.

Are We Ready For A Nuclear Attack From North Korea?

Kim Jong Un claims his regime can strike the U.S. mainland with a missile. Experts say that’s true.

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop plans are an unsurprising surprise

Elon Musk may not have set out to build a Hyperloop, but it looks like the allure of putting those Boring Company digging machines to work is too much for the ambitious billionaire. Having watched – interested, but maintaining that he was too busy with SpaceX and Tesla to get involved himself – from the sidelines as startups like Hyperloop … Continue reading

Toyota and Mazda team on EVs, V2V and the Millennial menace

Toyota and Mazda are teaming up on new electric cars, as well as vehicle production in the US and car-to-car communications. The deal, announced today, will see the Japanese automakers collaborate not only on new models but on how and where they’re produced, as well as see each take a stake in the other’s business. For Mazda in particular, it’s … Continue reading

Your Android phone can become a real Game Boy with this gadget

 A product that began life as an April Fools joke has graduated to a real thing you can order right now: Hyperkin’s SmartBoy is an accessory for Android smartphones with a USB-C connector, and brings Game Boy-style physical controls and actual Game Boy game cartridge compatibility to the gaming device you carry with you everywhere in your pocket anyways.
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Robot chefs and en route baking could be the future of pizza delivery

Looking at its storefront, you wouldn’t expect Zume pizza to be the kind of business gunning to revolutionize the food-delivery business. Tucked into a quiet commercial park in Mountain View, California, next to a defunct flower shop — which now ser…

Match.com turned its most eligible bachelors into free dolls

Match.com is as synonymous with online dating as Tinder is with casual bonking, but even an established platform needs a good PR push occasionally. In a campaign that would’ve almost certainly become national news if genders had been reversed, Match….