Z-Wave can be a very robust automation network, free from the complications and fragility of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Just how robust, you ask? More than a mile long, under the right circumstances, as hardware soon to hit the market promises. All claims of radio distances should be taken with amounts of salt unhealthy for consumption. […]
December 18, 2024 | home automation, shelly, Smart Home, Tech, z-wave, z-wave long range, z-wave lr | No comments
When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro a few months ago, some wondered just how many people would be willing to spend $700 for a marginal upgrade to the already quite powerful graphical performance of the PS5. Now, initial sales reports suggest there’s still a substantial portion of the console market that’s willing to shell […]
December 18, 2024 | Gaming, playstation 5, playstation 5 pro | No comments
Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency granted a pair of waivers to California, allowing the Golden State to continue regulating vehicle-caused air pollution within its borders. The first is for the California Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Cars II regulations, which apply to light- and medium-duty vehicles like passenger cars, SUVs, and smaller trucks. The […]
December 18, 2024 | Cars, Environmental Protection Agency, zero-emission vehicle | No comments
General Motors might have scaled back its electric vehicle ambitions in favor of more hybrids, but it’s still accelerating its plans to build out EV charging infrastructure. Today, together with ChargePoint, GM revealed that it will deploy “hundreds” of new DC fast chargers under the GM Energy brand in 2025. “The transition to electric mobility […]
December 18, 2024 | chargepoint, EV infrastructure, GM Energy | No comments
How it works Donating is easy. Simply donate to Child’s Play using a credit card or PayPal or donate to the EFF using PayPal, credit card, or cryptocurrency. You can also support Child’s Play directly by using this Ars Technica campaign page or picking an item from the Amazon wish list of a specific hospital […]
December 18, 2024 | Gaming | No comments
For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use to evade detection on social media and messaging platforms. Snowflakes, snowfall, and snowmen symbolize cocaine. Love hearts, lightning bolts, and pill capsules mean MDMA, or molly. Brown hearts and dragons represent heroin. Grapes and baby bottles are the calling cards […]
December 18, 2024 | drugs, illegal drugs, Instagram, Policy, snapchat, social media, syndication, telegram | No comments
“Space is an area of activity where there is never a 100 percent guaranteed result, and failures hound everyone,” he said. “I literally just finished reading a very interesting volume, the history of the formation of Elon Musk’s company SpaceX. His Falcon 1 had three failures. He had practically put everything he had on launch […]
December 18, 2024 | roscosmos, russia, Space | No comments
They seem so sweet and innocent but these squirrels are also opportunistic killers. We think of squirrels as adorably harmless creatures, admiring their bushy tails and twitchy little noses and the way they cram their cheeks with nuts or seeds to bring back to their nests for later. But the rodents turn out to be […]
December 18, 2024 | animal behavior, animals, Biology, Ecology, omnivores, predator/prey, Science | No comments
Musk ultimately received the security clearance, but since 2021, he has failed to self-report details of his life, including travel activities, persons with whom he has met, and drug use, according to the Times. The government is also concerned that SpaceX did not ensure Musk’s compliance with the reporting rules. Government agencies “want to ensure […]
December 17, 2024 | DoD, Elon Musk, security clearance, Space | No comments
A new era “Kids who were in eighth grade at the start of the pandemic will be graduating from high school this year, and this unique cohort has ushered in the lowest rates of substance use we’ve seen in decades,” Miech noted. For alcohol, use in the past 12 months among eighth graders was at […]
December 17, 2024 | adolescent, alcohol, Drug use, Health, illicit drugs, marijuana, nicotine, Science, Teens | No comments