Author: Trendici

Japanese company now sells no electric cars in the UK as it struggles with electrification globally Take a look at Honda’s UK website and you will notice a big omission: no electric car. Given that car makers here are legally bound by the ZEV mandate to hit an EV sales ratio of 33% this year, how does the Japanese company avoid fines?  The EV paucity comes after Honda decided to axe the Chinese-built e:Ny1 after less than three years on sale in the UK. It struggled to generate organic sales without the help of discounts, selling just 7122 examples here. Honda has told…

Life was much less stressful simply driving the T8 around like a conventional petrol luxury car and accepting the financial pain of 30mpg. Luxury is no exaggeration: this is an £85k purchase that rides smoothly on active air suspension (well, until it encounters a pothole) and in impressive quietness, despite having only four cylinders at its disposal and weighing nearly two and a half tonnes. One with big, cosy, massaging seats upholstered in nappa leather, bathed in sunlight from a full–length glass roof, with seemingly endless space for rear passengers and capable of really entertaining all aboard with a truly…

A new generation of experimental, frontier AI models are rapidly developing the ability to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities and business leaders need to start to pay attention, the UK government has warned. In an open letter to Britain’s business leaders published on 15 April, business secretary Liz Kendall said the threats organisations face in cyber space are changing and their responses need to change, too. “For years, the most serious cyber attacks have relied on a small number of highly skilled criminals. That is now shifting,” she said. “AI models are becoming capable of doing work that previously required…

Image: Souvik Banerjee/Unsplash Snapchat’s parent company has axed roughly one in six of its workers, blaming AI for making a smaller team just as capable. Snap Inc. confirmed Wednesday it is letting go of approximately 1,000 employees, about 16% of its full-time global workforce, in what CEO Evan Spiegel described in an internal memo as a painful but necessary step toward the company’s long-term survival. In addition to the cuts, more than 300 open positions will not be filled. This means the total reduction in Snap’s planned headcount amounts to roughly a quarter of the workforce it had expected to…

Before having kids, my husband and I spent our anniversaries camping on an island off the coast of Washington State. We’d pitch our tent in the woods and wake to the sound of harbor seals splashing in the waves. Then, when I was pregnant with our firstborn, we went camping in the nearby national forest. I spent the lazy days reading in a hammock by the river, and in the evenings, we sat by the fire, imagining the family camping trips we’d soon take. The next summer, we returned to the national forest with our six-month-old. Not only did we…

The tools that support corporate and private equity M&A dealmaking have evolved well beyond secure document sharing. What started as virtual data rooms (VDRs) built for diligence has expanded into platforms expected to support every phase of a deal. Deal teams are no longer looking for static repositories. They expect platforms that support workflows across the life cycle, from pipeline management and deal creation through marketing, diligence, and close. AI is also shifting expectations. Instead of being limited to document-level tasks, it is now embedded across workflows to help teams move faster and make better decisions. This shift brings DealCentre…

Source:Tim Witzdam/Unsplash ChatGPT is OpenAI’s AI assistant that helps people think, write, build, and solve problems… all in one place. What started as a simple chatbot has evolved into a far more capable tool. Today, ChatGPT can generate and edit text, analyze files, create images, write and debug code, and even pull in up-to-date information from the web. Instead of switching between apps, users can move from idea to execution within a single, continuous conversation. In practice, ChatGPT functions less like a standalone app and more like a flexible workspace — part writer, part researcher, part developer — adapting in…

YouTube is changing how ads appear during livestreams, holding them back at moments when viewers are most likely to be engaged or spending money. The update applies to creators using automatic ads and changes the platform’s default logic for live monetization. Instead of simply inserting ads on a fixed pattern, YouTube is now making more real-time decisions about when not to interrupt a stream. What changes during livestreams Viewers who buy a Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gifted membership will now get a personal ad-free window immediately after that purchase, according to 9to5Google’s report on the update. The platform also…

Image: Creative Commons Comcast has agreed to a $117.5 million class action settlement following a 2023 cybersecurity incident that exposed sensitive customer information. The proposed settlement stems from a lawsuit filed after an October 2023 cyberattack in which unauthorized parties accessed sensitive customer data. The case, formally known as Hasson v. Comcast Cable Communications LLC, is being handled in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. According to court documents and the official settlement notice, the breach involved a third party gaining access to customers’ personal information. Those affected were notified around Dec. 18, 2023. Plaintiffs in…

The world is divided into two groups: mint-chocolate lovers, and the people who make faces at us. Normally, I’d say no problem — more for me! But I truly feel that mint-chocolate deserves a second chance. Maybe you had a bad experience with a toothpaste-y ice cream, but when it’s done right, mint-chocolate is one of the all-time greatest pairings in dessert history. With this mousse recipe, baker Lucie Franc de Ferriere does mint-chocolate so very right. Lucie now runs an East Village bakery, specializing in stunning flower-covered cakes. But as a child, her favorite dessert was dark-chocolate mousse. “Even…