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Last month, a Mercedes Benz EQE 350 electric vehicle caught fire in a South Korean apartment building’s underground parking garage. Reportedly, 23 people were sent to the hospital and approximately 900 cars were damaged. The fire reached temperatures of more than 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit (1,500 degrees Celsius), and took firefighters almost eight hours to extinguish. The incident led to a …

Backup and recovery are critical in catastrophic cases that affect an organization’s entire Google Cloud account. Having an untouchable, logically air-gapped version adds a layer of reassurance for high-stakes data. On Sept. 10, Google Cloud beefed up its backup and disaster recovery services with an unmodifiable vault. The service is currently in preview mode, but it will be available to …

On TikTok and across the internet, a claim pushed by Trump and the right about Haitians eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio has morphed from a potentially vicious anti-immigrant trope into fodder for memes from both left and right. Whether you see them as effective in demonizing immigrants, or emblematic of right-wing racism run absurdly amok is a Rohrshach …

As threats to his personal safety have become graver, the world’s richest man has barricaded himself behind a phalanx of bodyguards that operates like a mini-Secret Service.

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority It’s been years since the Wireless Consortium — the guys behind the Qi and Qi2 wireless charging standards — announced Ki, their protocol for cordless kitchen appliances. And for the past few years, I’ve seen demos of it at trade shows like IFA and MWC, but the first product is finally here. At this …

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: Recent announcements from Apple and Google show that AI is most useful as a feature in devices and software we already use, rather than a standalone product  —  Apple and Google are showing how AI is really a feature in other products at this stage  —  AI’s boosters have billed it as a technology …

One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry’s vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: Roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable. Music industry publication Mix spoke with the people in charge of …

The success rate of IT projects can be improved by empowering business unit leaders to become tech innovators, Gartner Vice President Analyst Daniel Sanchez-Reina told a crowd of CIOs and IT leaders on Sept. 10 at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Australia. As he explained, CIOs in Australia have historically struggled to meet objectives: Only 48% of digital projects are …

Harris’s all-Gen-Z “digital persuasion” team is tapping the trends and rhythms of internet culture to create a playful online presence that’s unique in presidential politics.

Driven by new technology called OpenAI o1, the chatbot can test various strategies and try to identify mistakes as it tackles complex tasks.