Author: Trendici
It’s worth noting that our car didn’t have the latest MG Pilot Custom user-configurable ADAS setting of other MG models, which makes it all considerably easier. The 2026-model-year HSs, coming soon, will get this. Which leaves the Tiggo 9’s ADAS features and, frankly, they are a mess. Leaving them active makes it bleep and bong at you in four different ways (for lane departure, speeding warning, speed limit change and driver monitoring alert) – and enough, at times, to leave you feeling totally bombarded. Really? You’re worried I might be distracted? How strange. To prevent it all requires a multi-layered…
Artemis II and its four-man crew have entered the Moon’s “sphere of influence,” meaning the spacecraft is more affected by lunar gravity than the Earth’s pull. The transition occurred at a distance of 39,000 miles from the Moon, four days, six hours and two minutes into the mission. The next and most important phase will happen tomorrow when the craft loops around the Moon’s far side, taking humans deeper into space than they’ve ever been before.At their apogee, Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen will be 252,757 miles from Earth. That will break the previous…
The Artemis II crew is almost at the moon, and the astronauts spent this weekend carrying out preparations for their lunar flyby on Monday. That included manual piloting demonstrations, reviewing their science objectives for the six-hour observation period and evaluating their space suits, which are there for life support in the event of an emergency and for their return home. But, they’ve had plenty of time to take in the views, too — and those views sure are spectacular. In the latest series of images shared by the space agency, the astronauts are seen gazing at Earth through the windows…
While the US and Anthropic are in the midst of a major dispute, the UK is trying to sway the San Francisco-based AI company to expand its presence on English soil. According to a report from The Financial Times, staffers at the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology have worked on proposals that include expanding Anthropic’s office in London, along with a potential dual stock listing.The UK’s strategy follows a public fallout between Anthropic and the US Department of Defense earlier this year. After the AI company said it wouldn’t budge on certain AI guardrails, the Department of Defense…
Samsung is putting the final nail in the coffin for its own messaging app. The smartphone maker posted an “End of Service Announcement” on its website, revealing that the Samsung Messages app will no longer be available by July of this year. Samsung also recommended that anyone still using Samsung Messages switch over to Google Messages as the default messaging app.For Samsung Messages users in the US, the switch to Google offers RCS messaging that lets you send high-quality media, join group chats and get real-time typing indicators no matter the smartphone’s OS. Galaxy smartphone owners may lose out on…
A friend texted me to say that he was envious of the cars I’ve driven recently – Aston Martin Valhalla and Audi RS5 – and to let me know that he’s in a Hyundai i10 courtesy car at the moment. Hold on: you are the one envious of me? I will admit that I’ve had very nice times in some very good cars recently, but to experience the sub-tonne kerb weight of an i10 and revel in the snicketiness of its five-speed manual gearbox, and to be doing so for the very first time, is something worth envying in itself. I think I…
Pinball video games have been around for years — I cut my teeth on Space Cadet 3D Pinball, which was pre-loaded on Windows 95. They range from realistic recreations of pinball tables you’ll find at arcades to games that could never exist in real life like 2019’s Demon’s Tilt or older ones like Metroid Prime Pinball for the Nintendo DS or Pokémon Pinball for the Game Boy Color.I didn’t expect to find a detailed pinball game for the humble and delightful Playdate, but a pair of developers working under the name Amano pulled it off with Devils on the Moon…
For comparison, Mini sold 162,789 Coopers (three-door, five-door and Convertible) globally in 2025. There’s a price difference, sure, but it’s an eye-opening number. In the UK, Geely plans to sell 100,000 cars per year by 2030, but only a portion of those will be EX2s; last year, it sold 4.1 million vehicles globally. Michael Yang, Geely Auto UK’s boss, suggests that should demand, conditions and finances align, Geely could use its UK manufacturing base to build vehicles locally. The firm recently mooted it could build cars in Volvo’s US factory to bypass import tariffs, so the idea isn’t beyond the…
Its hulking 1920kg and its languid damping in the softest of the three maps make it more authoritative in such conditions than any drumskin-taut McLaren. Meanwhile, the steering is hefty and synthetic by class standards, with a lack of self-centring. But it’s calmly sped and immune to the twitchiness that makes supercars tiring on treacherous roads. All of which puts a question mark over the E-Ray’s potential for A-grade thrills later on – but right now makes it as easy-going as a BMW M8 Competition, which is fine and dandy by me. And make no mistake, there’s genuinely good security…
There’s finally a release date for the Spaceballs sequel — but before you get too excited, it’s a whole year away. As first reported by Deadline, Amazon MGM Studios announced on Friday night that the upcoming Spaceballs movie will hit theaters on April 23, 2027, right around the 40th anniversary of the first film. Several members of the original cast will be reprising their roles, according to Deadline, including Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, George Wynder and Daphne Zuniga.Whispers of a potential Spaceballs 2 go back a couple of years, but Brooks officially confirmed in an extremely on-brand announcement…