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EV maker Polestar has announced that it’s bringing bi-directional charging — the ability for an electric car to be tapped as a battery for your home or the grid — to Polestar 3 owners who live in California. The feature is one of several ways EV owners can save money with their electric car, by either using less energy overall, or receiving credits for providing their excess power to the grid.Polestar’s bi-directional charging feature uses direct current, according to the company, and enables “V2H functionality for Polestar 3 customers on the 400 Volt electrical architecture.” Polestar is offering the feature…
Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott says he’s looking to mark up a crypto market structure bill next month to have it on President Donald Trump’s desk by early next year.Scott told Fox Business on Tuesday that the committee has been negotiating with Democrats to reach a deal, but accused the party’s senators of stalling.“Next month, we believe we can mark up in both committees and get this to the floor of the Senate early next year so that President Trump will sign the legislation making America the crypto capital of the world,” Scott said. Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott…
November has turned into Black Friday and vice versa. What was once a one-day shopping sprint has turned into a month-long marathon, with retailers rolling out discounts week after week. Thanks to this, it can be easy to get deal fatigue after a while — but no one wants to miss out on a good discount, regardless of if you’re buying for yourself or someone else. We’re tracking all of the best Black Friday deals you can get right now so you don’t have to go searching for them.Engadget can help if you have tech on your shopping list this…
After Tesla shareholders approved a pay package that will pay Elon Musk a trillion dollars over ten years, the far-left Washington Post required two bylines to publish a 14-line piece having a brain hemorrhage over it. Did you know that $100 billion per year… …is about the same as the “combined paychecks of all 3.2 million cashiers” in America? … is $3 billion more than combined salaries of America’s “1.4 million elementary school teachers”? Don’t ask me which ass they pulled this beauty out of, but if you’re not already outraged enough by the teachers and cashiers, did you know that…
The hospitality arm of Equinox is opening a new resort in Anguilla’s Port Nimara, which follows news of another planned launch in Saudi Arabia Equinox Hotels is bringing its premium spa and hospitality offerings to the Caribbean for the first time with the opening of Equinox Resort Anguilla Port Nimara. To be located at the southwest end of the island of Anguilla, the planned resort will lie on privately owned land between the Cap Juluca and Altamer estates, with direct beachfront access and a 118-berth marina suitable for vessels up to 240+ feet The resort will house 62 rooms, including…
Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE, is staging a surprisingly strong recovery just hours after the platform recorded one of the largest liquidation events in crypto history. Related Reading According to CoinGlass data, a massive $96.5 million BTC-USD perpetual contract liquidation hit Hyperliquid late Monday, part of a broader market washout that wiped out over 164,000 traders and triggered $814 million in total liquidations across exchanges. HYPE’s price records some gains on the daily chart. Source: HYPEUSD on Tradingview Despite the carnage, Hyperliquid price has surged by 6% in the past 24 hours, climbing back above $41 on Tuesday and extending the…
Bitcoin has officially slipped into dangerous territory after losing the $90,000 level for the first time since early spring, triggering widespread fear across the market. The drop has intensified concerns that BTC may be transitioning into a full bear market, as momentum weakens and buyers struggle to absorb the aggressive waves of sell pressure. Related Reading According to top analyst Darkfost, one of the driving forces behind the latest downturn is persistent selling from major institutional players. Data shows that Galaxy Digital has been offloading significant amounts of BTC. This steady stream of institutional selling has added weight to an…
The founders of Padel Studio Coventry were inspired by Dubai concepts that have combined the popular racket sport and surging fitness modality into one unified concept While more and more people are flocking to glass-enclosed courts to play the tennis-squash hybrid sport of padel, U.K.-based Padel Studios Coventry is combining the growing sport with another red-hot fitness modality: Pilates. The founders, Preet Bains and Aman Choudhury, launched the 14,000-square-foot, three-court facility with enough space to create a wellness and fitness hub, rather than just a place to play padel. “When we looked at the space, we realised that building three…
Who needs a revamped Mac Pro when you can just turn several Mac Studios into a unified computing system? With the upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 release, Apple is introducing a new low-latency feature that lets you connect several Macs together using Thunderbolt 5. For developers and researchers, it’s a potentially useful way to create powerful AI supercomputers that can run massive local models. That allows four Mac Studios, which can each run up to 512GB of unified memory, to run the 1 trillion parameter Kimi-K2-Thinking model far more efficiently than PCs with power-hungry GPUs.While we’ve seen Thunderbolt Mac clusters before,…
Waymo is launching in five new cities across Texas and Florida. Autonomous vehicles in Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando will begin accepting rides next year.The Alphabet-owned company said operations (sans passengers) will begin on Tuesday in Miami. The other cities will follow “over the coming weeks.” This phase is where the vehicles drive around town without anyone inside. That gives the company a chance to spot local quirks and adjust the driving algorithm accordingly.Waymo said this local adjustment phase requires fewer changes with each added city. “This data feeds into a flywheel of continuous improvement, bolstered by rigorous…