NordVPN Coupon: Up to 74% Off + 3 Months Free

A virtual private network (VPN) is like a protective tunnel, keeping your data safe from prying eyes. Whether you’re worried about the open network at your local coffee shop or want to get around geo-restrictions when you’re traveling, NordVPN can help. VPNs aren’t perfect protection (you need to trust your VPN provider), but they’re always…

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Talking Cars 456: Driving the Chevrolet Traverse

Main theme: In this podcast episode, we give our first driving impressions of the redesigned 2024 Chevrolet Traverse, which we recently purchased for CR’s auto test program. The outgoing Traverse fared well in our testing, owing to its ability to do most things well without any glaring faults.  While the new Traverse isn’t drastically changed…

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Nearly 12 Million Pounds of Products With Cooked Chicken Sold by Amazon, Target, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, and Others Recalled for Listeria Risk

The recalled products were sold nationally under the store brands of major retailers including 7-Eleven, Aldi, Amazon Kitchen, Target, Trader Joe’s, and Walmart, as well as large regional grocers such as Albertsons, H-E-B, Giant Eagle, Kroger, Meijer, Save Mart, and Wegmans. Other products were sold nationally under brand names including Atkins, Boston Market, Dole, Jenny…

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Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be

For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities as the next big step in their latest artificial intelligence models. Now, though, a new study from six Apple engineers shows that the mathematical “reasoning” displayed by advanced large language models can be extremely brittle and unreliable in the face…

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Which Electric Vehicles Can Charge at a Tesla Supercharger?

• General Motors (parent company of Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC) said that owners of GM EVs could access Superchargers using an adapter as of Sept. 18, 2024. New vehicles will get built-in NACS charging ports starting in 2025. Owners of existing GM EVs, including the Chevrolet Bolt, Bolt EUV, and Blazer EV; the GMC Hummer…

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Milton Disrupted the Flow of Drinking Water—so Florida Deployed a Machine to Harvest It From Air

David Stuckenberg, cofounder and chief operations officer at Genesis Systems, explains that the WaterCube uses proprietary liquid and solid sorbents—materials that absorb water—that essentially “form a handshake with the water in the air.” The machine then heats these materials to extract the water. Atmospheric water generators typically require a substantial amount of energy to run,…

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The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over

The password-killing tech known as “passkeys” have proliferated over the past two years, developed by the tech industry association known as the FIDO Alliance as an easier and more secure authentication alternative. And although superseding any technology as entrenched as passwords is difficult, new features and resources launching this week are pushing passkeys toward a…

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