According to an unofficial tally, the Elon Musk-headed company has secured over half a million pre-orders for its unorthodox electric truck, Electrek reports. Tesla hasn’t updated the numbers in a while, but Cybertruck reservation holders at Cybertruckownersclub.com estimate pre-orders have blown past the 500,000 mark. [Read: Tesla’s Cybertruck looks weird, but so did Apple’s AirPods] “The 522,764 pre-orders represents an average of 5,873 orders received per day in the 89 days since (and including) reveal night,” the data shows....

Late yesterday, Tesla announced all its North American Model S Long Range Plus EVs will come with an EPA mileage rating of 402 miles (around 650 km) per full charge. That’s nearly 20% more when compared against a 2019 Model S 100D with the same battery pack, the company says. [Read: Uber and Waymo expected to share autonomous vehicle test data with public in new tool] Tesla stated there are four main reasons that contribute to achieving this new EPA rating: cutting excess weight from the vehicle, new aerodynamic wheels and tires, increased drivetrain efficiency, and improved regenerative breaking which now works at lower speeds....

My Saturday plan, in theory: I’m going to attach these bookshelves to the wall, with 10 screws. Shouldn’t take more than an hour, most likely less than 30 minutes. My plan, in action: I order the screws, but when they arrive, I find out they’re too big for the pre-drilled holes in the bookshelves. I have no other choice but to buy new screws. I then find out the thinner screws need a thinner drill bit too, and the exact drill bit I need I loaned out to a friend and forgot to ask for it back....

Recently I moved to a new house, and it wasn’t until after settling in that I realized I was only a 20-minute drive from the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, TX. That was not planned — life is just cool like that sometimes. Credit: National Videogame Museum Naturally, on my first available weekend, I grabbed a Spyro T-shirt and a like-minded buddy and made my trip there. The museum is inside a complex with several other educational spaces, including an art gallery and a miniature train display run by the Museum of the American Railroad....

Your email inbox is a perfect distraction Researchers have found that when people are interrupted during a task, by checking email, for instance, they tend to subsequently make up for the lost time by working faster. However, this comes at a cost — higher levels of stress and frustration. The more we respond to external triggers like an email, the more we train our brain in a neverending stimulus-response loop....

The device, its engineering student creators say, will transform product prototyping in the same way that 3D printers have made things possible that previously seemed inconceivable. Although very much like a 3D printer, the EX¹ has been designed to only print circuit boards. To achieve this is uses two inkjet cartridges and prints onto a substrate (base material) in the same way as a desktop printer. However, it’s not quite like your home printer....

iOS 13 brought both major and minor changes to the iPhone interface, and a lot of the things we’re used to seeing have shifted places. So it can be hard to navigate familiar tasks, including the business of updating and deleting apps. Here’s a fast way of using iOS 13’s new tricks to both keep your apps updated and delete from the same menu. Find the app update menu The update tab on the App Store has been shuffled off to make room for Apple Arcade....

I’m not gonna sit here and say the new iMac is perfect. In fact, there are a range of issues with Apple’s new computer. One that’s constantly brought up is the chin and bezels on the devices. First though, let’s get reacquainted with the new machine: There’s one question I have about that huge, jutting chin underneath the screen: why? Well, I actually have an answer: that’s where the fans are....

Well, Oppo is calling it a ‘Microlens’ camera, but whatever you call it, it’s able to magnify objects up to 60x. That puts it more the territory of a basic microscope (40x, 100x, and 400x are common magnifications) than, say, the cheesy macro lenses on some cameras, where you’re often just better off cropping a higher resolution. Sure, it’s not enough to resolution peer into cells, but it’ll still net you some pretty cool closeups....

— OPPO India (@oppomobileindia) August 16, 2019 This is the OPPO Reno 2. As you’ll see, it comes with a constellation of four rear-facing cameras. That’s not terribly surprising, given this particular configuration is present on devices from manufacturers as diverse as Samsung, Huawei, Honor, and Lenovo. OPPO hasn’t disclosed the exact composition of the Reno 2’s camera setups, besides saying it’s capable of 20x zoom. That’s an impressive figure, and if I was a betting man, I’d put my money on the OPPO Reno 2 using hybrid zoom technology technology to accomplish this....

A new verdict requires local internet providers Ziggo, KPN, and XS4ALL to block users from accessing the torrent site along with any proxies and mirrors, TorrentFreak reports. If the story sounds familiar, that’s because it’s not the first time it’s happened. The verdict essentially dates back to a 10-year legal battle between ISPs and anti-piracy group BREIN. In 2010, BREIN took Ziggo to court, demanding the ISP restrict access to The Pirate Bay....

There’s a Seinfeld episode where George explains how he ‘works’ without actually doing anything. When Elaine and Jerry ask him how he gets away with doing nothing, he shares his simple trick: look serious and annoyed, and people will assume you’re busy. We then see a few scenes of George looking angry, shaking his head, and mumbling as he paces around the office, while his coworkers treat his dedication with great reverence....

Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, spoke of the new feature in the context of the company’s pledge to a United Nations initiative. In speaking about Sony’s attempts to cut down on the power consumption of its consoles, Ryan gave a little hint on what the feature will mean for the upcoming console: Ryan also touted how Sony’d cut down on the PS4’s energy drain. In 2014, a report from the National Resources Defense Council concluded that the PS4 and Xbox One both draw massive amounts of power in standby — the PS4, 8....

Basically, almost every single leaker claimed the new Apple Watch would echo the design of the iPhone 12 (and now 13) range. In other words, it was going to have a squarer design and look something like this: Instead, Apple actually made the Apple Watch rounder. Like this: I’m not here to kick leakers while they’re down though. Well, not entirely. I’m writing this in order to celebrate the real winners of last night’s Apple event: owners of Apple Watch bands....

These are the first images from the Solar Orbiter released to the public. This joint mission from NASA and the ESA launched on February 9 of this year, and it made its first close pass of the Sun near the middle of June. “These unprecedented pictures of the Sun are the closest we have ever obtained. These amazing images will help scientists piece together the Sun’s atmospheric layers, which is important for understanding how it drives space weather near the Earth and throughout the solar system,” said Holly Gilbert, NASA project scientist for the mission at Goddard Space Flight Center....

In fact, most key players across the automotive industry have taken decisive action or have been heavily impacted by Russia’s invasion. So let’s take a look at what’s happening. Suspension of business and halt of production Following the imposed sanctions against Russia, most automakers have suspended vehicle exports to the country and frozen overall business activities. Among them, Volvo, Volkswagen, BMW, and Toyota have also stopped production at their Russian facilities either in alignment with the sanctions (as is the case with the first three OEMs), or due to supply chain disruptions (as is the case with Toyota)....

Since it’s too cold for kids to go outside right now, that means lots of hours cooped up inside the house. And after basically a year of kids being cooped up inside the house, we’re sure the novelty wore thin a long, long time ago. Parents, you’ve got to keep ‘em engaged in something or they’ll overrun you and tear you apart. Thankfully, we’ve got some ideas. Right now, you can pick up any of these four cool STEM learning project sets and keep their fertile young minds buzzing like an engine....

The document, published in 1989, contained a prophecy that propelled it to domestic bestseller status, and into the concerned hands of officials at the CIA. At the time, the authors noted, the American and Soviet superpowers had become “dependent on the initiative of the Japanese people” in developing new technology, as exemplified by the country’s dominant production of semiconductor chips. For Morita and Ishihara, this signalled “the end of modernity developed by Caucasians” and the emergence of “an era of new genesis” led by Japanese technological supremacy....

Starting from December 1, the League Live feature will automatically pair singles up, based on their mutual preferences and location. Once paired, users get three dates in six minutes, and to get the (awkward) conversation started, the app will present ice-breaker questions. How romantic. During the brief face-time date, users can then “heart” the other person and if they mutually like each other, they’ll become officially “matched” and they’ll then be able to chat on the platform to organize a date....

The world needs cybersecurity professionals. Badly. Very, very badly. In fact, the U.S. workforce is estimated to be about half a million cybersecurity pros short right now. That’s a huge number, which should make you concerned about the short-term security of all the digital systems you depend on every day. Of course, the other side of that coin is that if you need a job, there’s nowhere better to turn your sights than to information technology protection....