@theverge.spaceCybertruck owner reveals Tesla’s very riveting fix for pedal problems.
A Tesla delivery center in Virginia reportedly has a way to deal with the now-recalled accelerator pedal on Cybertrucks.
In a Facebook post, Jim McGlone wrote that they installed a temporary rivet to secure the pad that might slip off and get stuck. With that in place, he picked up his new Cybertruck yesterday after it had been in a “containment hold.”
TikTok is paying users in France 38 cents to spend an hour on its platform.
It hopes to recruit more EU users through a new rewards app called TikTok Lite that offers cash incentives.
Le Monde gives us a first look at the app where users earn “coins” for their activities on TikTok. A daily target of 3,600 coins (or €0.36 or $0.38) is reportedly equal to an hour of consuming content. Liking three videos? 150 coins.
TikTok’s growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it’s rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos. The Chinese-owned company is introducing a new app in Spain, France and other countries that will encourage users to watch videos, invite friends to sign ...
If you’re sick of crosswords, check out the new game coming to Apple News Plus.
The Scrabble-esque game Quartiles will arrive with iOS 17.5. Players start with 20 tiles, each with a group of letters, and combine them to form words. The longer the word, the more points you get.
Apple's next software update, iOS 17.5, is relatively minor. Still, it includes one killer new feature for people who like word games: another lexical challenge to complement the crossword puzzles that Apple News already has.
The App Store appears to be the Apple service to rule them all.
During a global outage of nearly a dozen different Apple services on Wednesday evening, Google searches for “App Store” outnumbered every other Apple Service — both in the US and worldwide.
The screenshot of Google Trends below, taken at roughly 7 pm ET, indicates that searches for “App Store” are at least four times greater than that of the next (apparently) most missed Apple service, Apple TV. This was followed by Apple Music and Apple Podcasts.
Google appears to be prepping Android users for its upgraded Find My Device network.
Mishaal Rahman points out that a new settings panel is popping up for a few people with a beta release of Google Play Services, like @AssembleDebug on X, but they can’t yet opt-in (using the process shown below) to make it work.
Announced at I/O 2023, the upgraded network will use encrypted location data from other Android phones for tracking, but it has been delayed until Apple updates its tracking protection, which could be coming in iOS 17.5.
OpenAI is pitching Sora to Hollywood.
The AI company is scheduled to meet with a number of studios, talent agencies, and media executives in Los Angeles next week to discuss partnerships, sources familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg. Getting more filmmakers familiar with Sora, OpenAI’s upcoming text-to-video generator, is a major goal of the meetings.
Although Sora is still awaiting a public release later this year, Bloomberg reports that a few A-list directors and actors have already been given access.
NASA’s tiny BurstCube satellite is en route to the International Space Station.
BurstCube is aboard SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft, which launched on the Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Thursday. After it arrives and is unpacked, the shoebox-sized CubeSat will be released into orbit, where it will locate and study gamma-ray bursts linked to the gravitational waves that were first detected in 2016.
You can see NASA’s simulation of the BurstCube below.
NASA’s BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station. The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]
People are poking each other again on Facebook.
Is it 2004 all over again? There’s been a 13x spike in poking over the last month, Facebook announced on Threads. And the culprits behind The Great Poke Surge of 2024 may surprise you. Half of them come from the 18-29 year old demographic, the company told TechCrunch.
The social network attributes the spike to a few design changes, including adding the ability to poke in search results, as you can see below.
So, where exactly is that lead in your Stanley Quencher?
The 3D X-ray startup Lumafield did a CT scan of a Stanley Quencher water bottle to show you without destroying one (but if your viral insulated cup does happen to break, you should return it).
You can see where an airhole in the stainless steel outer layer is vacuum-sealed with a small lead pellet, which appears red in the image below. That way, it never comes in contact with your beverage in the inner flask or with you on the outside.
Microsoft yanks Edge browser update after users report crashes.
The Edge 122.0.2365.63 browser update Microsoft released yesterday is causing a stir. Users encountered “This page is having a problem” or other errors, BleepingComputer is reporting.
Reddit users soon discovered the bug impacted browsers with “Enhanced Web Protection” turned on. Some fixed it by turning the setting off — or switching Edge profiles. Everyone else will have to wait for Microsoft to release a fix, it seems.
