How do you get people to take your electric supercar seriously? Set a lap record

A Japanese electric supercar will head to the Nürburgring to attack the legendary German racetrack’s lap record. TheAspark Owlwill hit the track in March 2020, Aspark boss Masanori Yoshida said in an interview with Top Gear. A lap record would give newcomer Aspark some credibility, and strike another blow for electric cars against internal combustion. Aspark didn’t specify which lap record it would aim for, but it’s probably safe to rule out the overall record set by the Porsche 919 Hybrid, or the electric record set by theVolkswagen ID RThose records were set by purpose-built race cars, but the Owl is a production model (albeit a very extreme one)....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 374 words · Jay Levy

How to catch Tracktail Lizard in Monster Hunter Wilds

How to catch Tracktail Lizard in Monster Hunter Wilds You’re going to be doing a lot of bug-catching inMonster Hunter Wilds, so you might as well get comfy with the Net. After you’ve spent a few hours slaying terrifyingmonsters, MHW decides it’s time for a little detour. you may’t just keep hunting beasts forever – sometimes, you need to wander through the desert and catch something tiny, like a Tracktail Lizard....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 343 words · John Hernandez

How to delete your Cash App account

Peer-to-peer payment app Cash App is almost as popular as Venmo for transferring money to friends and family, with 44 million users in 2021. Recently, however, the apphit headlinesfor all the wrong reasons, when a former employee downloaded investing reports containing sensitive customer information. Difficulty What You Need Smartphone with Cash App installed A Cash App account Although the security breach, which supposedly impacts 8.2 million U.S. users, didn’t compromise information such as usernames, passwords, bank account information, or account access codes, you may still be considering deleting the app completely and using an alternativemoney transfer app....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 393 words · Alicia Stephens

How to Train Your Dragon director “doesn’t love the trend” of remaking animated movies

How to Train Your Dragon director “doesn’t love the trend” of remaking animated movies How to Train Your Dragon director Dean DeBlois says he isn’t a fan of remaking animated classics in live-action, but explains why he wanted to oversee the process in this instance. Dean DeBlois is having an interesting month at the movies. He co-wrote and co-directed the animated Lilo & Stitch film with Chris Sanders, which was justremade in live-action, and is currentlygrossing a fortune in cinemas....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 423 words · Edward Meyer

Ideogram 2.0 has arrived to eat Midjourney’s lunch

The AI image generation wars are heating up. Just as Google has released its ownPixel Studio generator to disastrous results, AI startup Ideogramannounced Wednesday on X(formerly Twitter) has announced the second version release of its product with the same name, Ideogram 2.0. In addition to increasing its model’s new creative capabilities, the company also says it’s rolling out an iOS app, an API, and a visual search system. The announcement comes aftera big week in AI image generation, with the launch ofGrok-2and a significantMidjourneyupdate....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 412 words · Sarah Rivera

If you liked I Know What You Did Last Summer, then watch these 5 movies

More than 25 years after a group of teens first did something last summer,I Know What You Did Last Summeris back with a legacy sequel. It’s far from the first of these revived horror franchises from the 1990s, but if you liked the slasher vibes of this new installment, we know exactly where you should go next. These movies all share something in common with the newI Know What You Did Last Summer....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 575 words · Jermaine Lowe

In blow to coal industry, tech firms push for renewable energy

Since 2008, renewable energy sources have gone from generating 9 percent of America’s electricity to 18 percent, and, asUSA Todayreports, a large part of that is due to tech giants such as Amazon and Google. Several of these firms have pledged to run their data centers on renewable energy. Both Google and Apple have said that many of their facilities and data centers arerunning on 100-percent renewable energy. This is driving energy companies to shift their focus away from coal to wind and solar....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 381 words · Stephanie Vazquez

ISS astronaut’s stunning time-lapse video includes the Milky Way

A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has shared a breathtaking time-lapse video featuring Earth, an aurora, the Milky Way, and the station itself. Matthew Dominick, who’s been on the orbital outpost since March, shared the amazing 27-second sequence (below) on social media on Sunday. “A time-lapse of solar arrays reflecting aurora and city lights as they align themselves for the impending sunrise,” Dominick wrote in the post, adding: “The solar array light reflections were so mind-blowing that I stayed up till 1 a....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 427 words · Valerie Nunez

Japanese rocket launches manga drawings and weather satellite into orbit

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully delivered a weather satellite into geostationary orbit today. But, for kids across Japan, the main attraction wasn’t the satellite or even the rocket — it was the artwork on board. Pasted near the upper half of the H-IIA rocket were two manga drawings created with the help of kids across the country. The rocket art project was organized by Young Astronauts Club Japan, an organization that seeks to encourage children to marvel at space....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 288 words · Miranda Mcfarland

KEF’s Uni-Core tech could finally mean an end to big-box subwoofers

It resembles the cross-section for a turbine jet engine, but what you’re looking at is British audio company, KEF’s latest speaker innovation, which it calls Uni-Core. It’s a new architecture forsubwoofersthat could pave the way for much smaller enclosures without sacrificing any of the powerful, low-end bass home theater enthusiasts demand. Uni-Core uses two dual force-canceling drivers with concentrically arranged, overlapping voice coils, that are driven by a single motor to provide what KEF claims is stunning bass performance from a small enclosure....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 411 words · Phillip Young

Mayor Of Kingstown’s Bombing Aftermath Sets Up The Payoff For A Major Season 3 Mike Tease

Warning! SPOILERS about Mayor of Kingstown season 3, episode 4 ahead. Summary The chaotic aftermath of the KPD parking bombing inMayor of Kingstownseason 3, episode 4 set up the basis for Callahan’s request to Mike as seen inMayor of Kingstownseason 3’s trailer.Callahan’s return inMayor of Kingstownseason 3upset Mike, especially given that he learned about it from Bunny, taking him by surprise. However,Mayor of Kingstownseason 3, episode 4 also showed Mike treading very carefully around Callahan, evidently not trusting him and not letting the guard down one moment, proof thatMike expected to handle Callahan very differently from the other Kingstown gang leaders....

June 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1106 words · William Mathews

Microsoft makes tweaks to Xbox Live and Teams to handle spike in demand

Microsoft is adjusting its cloud services to manage the huge surge in demand caused by the pandemic of coronavirus, officially called COVID-19. Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, has been under tremendous strain in the last few weeks as people all over the globe switch to remote work and turn to gaming for entertainment at home. Last week, Microsoft announced it would be monitoring performance and usage trends to anticipate increased demand for its services, and set outcriteria for decidingwhat services should be a top priority (for example, that first responders, medical supply management, and emergency applications be prioritized)....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 400 words · Cheryl Vincent

My Hero Academia Teases One Last New Villain Before the End

Warning: Spoilers for My Hero Academia Chapter #425 Summary My Hero Academiamay be in its self-declared epilogue, but it seems this epilogue will be more like one last story arc, as the manga teases the entrance of a new villain following Shigaraki and All for One’s defeat. While this seemingly villainous figure remains a mystery at the moment, they could offer some insight into how exactly things have changed in hero society....

June 5, 2025 · 4 min · 666 words · Ricky Palmer