More evs = good — The alliance, first revealed in January, will now include passenger vehicles. Jonathan M. Gitlin - Jul 5, 2019 3:00 pm UTC Enlarge / An illustration of VW's MEB modular electric vehicle architecture. VW is gearing up to put MEB-based vehicles into mass production in the next 18 months. VolkswagenOn Friday…
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Emergency officials in Southern California’s high desert braced for strong, potentially dangerous aftershocks from a major earthquake that damaged buildings, ruptured gas lines and sparked numerous fires near the quake’s remote epicenter. A house burns after an earthquake in Ridgecrest, California, U.S. July 5, 2019. Jessica Weston/Daily Independent via REUTERSThe powerful…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe ancient city has undergone major restoration work over the past decade, in order to undo some of the damage done by Saddam Hussein and, later, US troops The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site.Iraq has been lobbying since 1983…
Sumer is icumen in — Strong acting, gorgeous cinematography can't quite save it from over-predictability. Jennifer Ouellette - Jul 4, 2019 3:55 pm UTC Enlarge / Traveling to Sweden for a rare summer solstice pagan festival that only takes place every 90 years turns out not to be such a good idea in Midsommar.YouTube/A24A group…
SAN SALVADOR DE JUJUY, Argentina (Reuters) - In Argentina’s remote northern province of Jujuy, Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is installing a little slice of the Asian nation’s vast surveillance state - security cameras that the local government says will help to curb street crime. FILE PHOTO: Visitors pass in front of the Chinese telecoms equipment…
Image copyright AFP Image caption The government is accused of neutralising opponents to remain in power The UN has accused Venezuela of a strategy of instilling fear in its population to retain power, removing opponents with a "shocking" number of alleged extrajudicial killings.Victims are arrested and shot, with crime scenes manipulated to suggest they resisted…
outages, outages everywhere, and nary a site that works — Verizon, Cloudflare, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter are all having problems. Jim Salter - Jul 3, 2019 11:49 pm UTC Enlarge / The Internet this week, more or lessLast week, Verizon caused a major BGP misroute that took large chunks of the Internet, including CDN company…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, facing renewed criticism from Democrats and activists over his handling of a migrant crisis on the U.S.- Mexico border, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday that immigrants unhappy with conditions at detention centers should be told “not to come.” A drawing by children recently released from CBP depicting…
Image copyright Donald Trump/Facebook A series of Facebook adverts showing people endorsing Donald Trump for his re-election campaign appeared to be actors featured on a stock video and image website.One of the short videos posted in June on the social network shows 'Tracey from Florida' walking along a beach with a voiceover that says "President…
WALK AWAY — Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats. Dan Goodin - Jul 3, 2019 12:50 am UTC Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement a new security program to settle charges it failed to safeguard its hardware against well-known and preventable hacks and misrepresented its existing…
