Author: Trendici
The fit and finish inside the RAV4 is exactly as robust as you would expect from Toyota, although a few cheap and nasty plastics lurk lower down in the cabin.It’s a utilitarian space: if the exterior echoes the Land Cruiser, the interior certainly takes inspiration from it too. The new, free-standing touchscreen features fresh and responsive infotainment software, offering modern conveniences like a digital phone key.This brings the car up to date, although it hardly puts it ahead of the curve. Physical switchgear is abundant. Below the screen sits a volume dial alongside buttons for the climate control. Beneath those…
Nissan has revealed the new X-Trail SUV as part of a wide-reaching overview of the company’s future strategy, design language and model line-up. Revealed alongside the new electric Nissan Juke in an event at the company’s Yokohama HQ in Japan, the new X-Trail E-Power is due next year as a rival to the Skoda Kodiaq, Kia Sorento and Peugeot 5008. Nissan has only shown the exterior of the car so far, and offered no technical details, but the E-Power badging confirms it will feature a version of the company’s full-hybrid powertrain. This system differs from conventional parallel hybrid technology in…
BMW is just months away from launching the totally reinvented M5, which will add plug-in hybrid power for the first time and is tipped to be one of the German firm’s most powerful road cars yet. Due on sale in the summer, the seventh iteration of the M5 will be one of the final combustion-engined cars from BMW’s M division. The performance arm has not yet announced an end date on its ICE line-up, but it will put its badge on a pure-electric sports saloon based on the next-generation BMW 3 Series in 2026 and is anticipated to transition to…
Nissan has unveiled the new Juke as its third EV, a car that it says will “help us reach new customers”, thanks to its radical new exterior design. The quirky SUV is Nissan’s second best-seller in Europe after the Qashqai, with more than 1.5 million examples sold since the original was launched in 2010. The third-generation Juke, unveiled early this morning at the brand’s future-looking Vision Event in Japan, is based on Nissan’s CMF-EV platform and so powered exclusively by electricity. It will share much of its underpinnings with the smaller Leaf EV, alongside which it will be built at Nissan’s Sunderland factory.…
The UK is over-reliant on a small number of big tech companies to provide critical datacentres, software and digital infrastructure, placing national security at risk, according to a report by the Open Rights Group (ORG). The report, which is backed by a number of MPs, warned that the UK’s dependency on US big tech companies places the UK at risk as relations between the two countries have become strained. Rifts between the UK and the US over the conduct of the US and Israel’s war with Iran, if they are exacerbated, could expose the UK to threats of US…
One of Europe’s longest-range EVs, the Mercedes-Benz EQS, has had its legs stretched even further with the addition of a new version that can go nearly 600 miles between charges. The flagship electric limo has been heavily updated for 2026, receiving a raft of visual and technical enhancements that will help its case against the BMW i7, Lucid Air and upcoming Jaguar Type 00. Chief among the tweaks is the adoption of a battery chemistry that boosts energy content by 3%, taking the outright capacity from 118kWh to 122kWh with no impact on the size or weight of the unit. The increase in capacity, as well as…
This spring, my two boys had different weeks off school for the first time, so I took them on separate one-on-one trips: Toby and I went to see family in San Francisco, and Anton and I were thrilled to visit our English relatives, including his beloved cousin Jimmy. Here are a few photos, if you’d like to see… We started off in London, a city I haven’t spent much time in even though we’ve visited Cornwall so many times (we usually just take the train directly there). We were excited to explore. We really lucked out with weather — the…
Image: Prostock-studio/Adobe No credentials were stolen. No alerts were triggered. And yet, the data slipped out anyway. On April 7, 2026, security researchers at Noma Security disclosed a vulnerability they named “GrafanaGhost.” It allowed an attacker to silently exfiltrate financial metrics, infrastructure telemetry, and customer records from Grafana environments — without credentials, without phishing, and without a single alert firing on any monitoring system. The attack used Grafana’s own AI assistant as the exfiltration channel. And that detail is what makes this more than a patch-and-move-on story. It is an architectural wake-up call for every organization running AI-enabled tools in…
Image: Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash Google has begun working on a new phone-to-phone communication feature that, if shipped, may change how Android devices in close range share files and communicate, while rivaling Apple’s equivalents with its consolidated approach. The “Tap to Share” feature was discovered during an APK teardown of the Google Play Services app, revealing lines of code that reflect updates Google has yet to release, as reported by The Times of India. The feature appears to be coming in a more refined form that combines Apple’s NameDrop and AirDrop. Using NFC, Android users can connect to share data by bringing…
Image: Jas Rolyn/Unsplash That upcoming vacation? Hackers may already know all about it. Booking.com, the global giant that handles everything from boutique hotel stays to cross-country car rentals, has confirmed that hackers breached its system. While the company insists that the situation is now “under control,” the breach has left a trail of exposed personal data and some very frustrated travelers. On Sunday evening, Booking.com began notifying an undisclosed number of customers that their reservation details had been compromised. The company says it noticed “suspicious activity” linked to specific bookings and immediately moved to contain the breach. A spokesperson for…