A Revel charging station in Brooklyn in 2022. Revel is shutting down its ridehail business, citing heightened competition from rideshare leaders like Uber and Lyft. The company, which began as an electric moped business before shifting to rideshare, plans to pivot to electric vehicle charging. “At the end of the day, rideshare is a very competitive market and asset-heavy,” Revel CEO Frank Reig said in a statement to Bloomberg. “It’s low margin. We have made the difficult decision that the best way we can keep the EV transition moving forward is by ending our rideshare service and focusing on building the fast-charging infrastructure our biggest cities need to keep going electric.”The Brooklyn-based company launched in 2018 with its signature neon blue rental mopeds before graduating to an all-Tesla ridehail fleet. Revel’s signature baby-blue Model Ys mostly operated in New York and New Jersey.Revel is seeking to sell 165 for-hire vehicle license plates, as well as a buyer for its Tesla and Kia vehicles, according to Bloomberg. The company recently opened several EV charging hubs in New York City and California, and plans to open hundreds more by the end of next year.

Have you heard of Natalie the Nerd? She’s a pillar of the Nintendo Game Boy modding scene who taught herself to reverse engineer and design Game Boy circuit boards. Now, she’s put her skills to work in probably the most beautiful build I’ve ever seen: a working see-through Game Boy Color where even the circuit board is made of clear plastic. Because she designed and created that board herself from scratch, you see. I’ve been floored by console mods before, but I’d typically limit praise to saying they’re “damn clean.” But this thing, to paraphrase Indiana Jones, belongs in a museum. “Damn that’s lovely,” says one of my colleagues. “It’s such a delight,” says another. Another reason why it’s probably a museum piece: she agreed with one commenter that it’s likely too flimsy and fragile for extended use. “Yeah not practical at all, just art work TBH,” she wrote.Natalie lives in Australia, where she sometimes sells RGB lighting kits and other aftermarket components for Game Boy modding and offers repair services. You can also support her work at ko-fi.

Among all the genres that leave every single gamer in the world spoiled for choice, cyberpunk remains one of the most popular ones, and rightly so. Its themes of societal divide, environmental degradation, futuristic technology continuing its rampant progress like a juggernaut while society frays at the edges have always allured players, and why wouldn't they?

If you ask any tech enthusiast which video player they use on their computer, chances are you’ll hear just one name: VLC. This is true across devices and platforms because VLC is a solid media player that nails the basics. It’s simple, lightweight, supports pretty much any format under the sun, and most importantly, it just works. Owing to this, VLC has also been my media player of choice for close to two decades now. While it still works well, I thought of venturing out and trying other alternatives to see if I could find something better. Let’s just say I was bored with the orange cone and wanted some change.

If you're using Proxmox to run virtual machines, you've probably seen the Cloud-Init tab and just ignored it. I did the same for a long time. It sounds like one of those things made for enterprise use or huge cloud deployments, not something for someone spinning up a few VMs at home. But once I gave it a shot, it quickly became one of the first things I set up after installing Proxmox.

If you ask anyone which software they use to archive or extract files on Windows, chances are that they either use WinRAR or 7-Zip. After all, these are the two most popular tools for this purpose. 7-Zip's popularity is due to the fact that it has been around for over two decades, offering an open-source archiving tool that's efficient and gets the job done. It's also totally free of cost, making it the default tool for several Windows users. On the other hand, WinRAR gains points in terms of aesthetics and reliability. It has a polished UI that's easy to use for most people. Plus, it can also open RAR files. That said, it is a paid service, which may put a few people off. Since both tools have their own advantages, I set out to find an alternative that can do both — while still being free to use.

Did Tesla remotely deactivate a Cybertruck in the middle of a highway because the owner featured it in an unauthorized music video? The story already seemed highly unlikely, and on Monday afternoon, Tesla tweeted about the video, saying, “This is fake – that’s not our screen. Tesla does NOT disable vehicles remotely.”On Sunday, Instagram user @bighuey313 posted a video of his supposed deactivated Cybertruck, complete with a flashing red warning message on the truck’s main touchscreen. “Dog wtf my cybertruck just shut off on the freeway! 😡” he wrote in the caption. “Almost just crashed wtf @teslamotors.”The owner also posted an image of what he claimed was a cease-and-desist letter from Tesla’s vice president of legal affairs, Dinna Eskin. The letter cites “unauthorized use of Tesla’s intellectual property in musical content distributed under your name.” The video quickly went viral on BlueSky, where anti-Elon Musk sentiment has helped fuel nationwide protests against Tesla. But users quickly noticed a number of discrepancies, such as the fact that the letter opens “We represent Tesla” despite being signed by the company’s in-house counsel. The letter also uses Eskin’s old title, “Sr. Director and Deputy General Counsel,” despite her current title of VP. And the warning message isn’t formatted like Tesla’s typical in-vehicle alerts and notifications. An X user speculated that the flashing red title was likely just a YouTube video playing on fullscreen to simulate a legitimate error. Despite these issues, the video went viral on BlueSky, X, and Reddit — and likely will continue to travel far and wide, confirming many people’s prior opinions about Tesla and Elon Musk. Update August 11th: Tesla posted on X confirming the video is fake.

I pulled the plug on my ISP-supplied all-in-one router earlier this year, replacing it with an OPNsense firewall and router running on the Ugreen DXP4800 Plus NAS. While it was certainly a network overhaul with a deep learning curve, the benefits were immediately apparent. It's faster (from a network management point of view), more reliable, and gives me far more control when it comes to my home network.

You can added canister vacs to the growing list of connected appliances. | Image: Miele Despite the convenience of cordless stick vacs, canister vacuums are still very much a thing for those with battery anxiety or those who want a lighter cleaner. Miele still offers over 20 different models of canister vacs in the US, but its latest is the company’s first to introduce smart functionality making it yet another appliance that wants access to your home’s Wi-Fi network.The Miele Guard L1 Electro is available now for $1,499 making it the most expensive model in the company’s L1 lineup and considerably pricier than even the $380 canister vacuum that Dyson still sells. That seems like a lot for a vacuum that still has a power cord, but the Electro does offer additional functionality including a built-in LCD touchscreen for changing the vacuum’s cleaning mode. The screen also displays status messages letting you know when the filter or vacuum bag needs replacing, or if a clog is detected. The Electro connects to Miele’s mobile app over Wi-Fi giving you another option for staying on top of those important status messages. And should it be time to replace bags or filters, you can conveniently order them directly through the app.

If you need internet where you normally can't get a connection, Starlink is going to be a prime solution. Not only is the hardware easy to set up, but it's also relatively affordable as well. The major hurdle for many is going to be the cost of the hardware, which you have to pay upfront. Luckily, this deal from Best Buy knocks 50% off, dropping the Standard Kit down to just $175. It's the best price we've seen on this model to date, so get it before the deal's gone.

On Monday, Anthropic released a hotly anticipated memory function for its Claude chatbot.In a YouTube video, the company demonstrated a user asking what they had been chatting about with Claude before their vacation. Claude searches past chats to read and summarize them for the user, then asks if they’d like to move on and keep working on the same project.“Never lose track of your work again,” the company wrote. “Claude now remembers your past conversations, so you can seamlessly continue projects, reference previous discussions, and build on your ideas without starting from scratch every time.” The feature works across web, desktop, and mobile, and it can keep different projects and workspaces separate. It started rolling out to Claude’s Max, Team, and Enterprise subscription tiers today — just go to “Settings” under “Profile” and switch the feature on under “Search and reference chats” — and the company said other plans should receive access soon.But there’s an important caveat here: It’s not yet a persistent memory feature like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Claude will only retrieve and reference your past chats when you ask it to, and it’s not building a user profile, according to Anthropic spokesperson Ryan Donegan.Anthropic and OpenAI have been going head-to-head in the AI arms race for quite a while, racing to roll out competing features and functionalities — like voice modes, larger context windows, and new subscription tiers — as they both raise ever-increasing funding amounts. Last week, OpenAI launched GPT-5, and Anthropic is currently looking to close a round that could value it as high as $170 billion.Memory functions are another way leading AI companies are looking to attract and keep users on one chatbot service, increasing “stickiness” and user engagement.Chatbots’ memory functions have been the subject of online debate in recent weeks, as ChatGPT has been both lauded and lambasted for its references to users’ past conversations, with some users controversially treating it as a therapist and others experiencing mental health struggles that some are referring to as “ChatGPT psychosis.”

As a long-time user of the Alienware AW3423DW, one of the first OLED gaming monitors to hit the market in 2022, I was genuinely excited when the company launched its successor, the AW3425DW. The main difference between the two is that the newer model has a 240Hz refresh rate, whereas the older one was limited to 175Hz. That alone was enough to convince me to upgrade since I enjoy playing competitive games at high refresh rates.