Author: Trendici

There’s a sense of occasion when you clamber up into the Grenadier’s surprisingly supportive, heated Recaro seats. For one thing, the driving position is magnificently high. In original Defender fashion, your eyeline almost skims the top of the side windows (although, unlike in an old Defender, the sill itself fully invites a resting elbow). On the motorway, you find yourself peering down into the cabins of other ‘full-size’ SUVs as you overtake. Visibility is panoramic and the sense of space is heightened by the removable safari windows fitted as standard on road-leaning Fieldmaster models, as tested here. The Grenadier’s designers have…

Pinterest is planning on laying off up to 15 percent of its workforce, . The company has been , so why punish employees? You already know the answer. It’s AI.The company said it’s “reallocating resources” to AI projects and prioritizing “AI-powered products and capabilities.” It’s also cutting down on office space, presumably because AI algorithms don’t require cubicles and the occasional low-grade snack.Pinterest noted in a that it expects these cuts to the workforce will be complete by the end of the third quarter in September. The company had 4,500 global employees , so the layoffs should impact up to…

Ukraine’s DSNS emergency service/Kharkiv regionAt least one carriage of the passenger train was burning after the Russian drone attack in north-eastern UkraineUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned as “terrorism” a Russian drone attack on a passenger train that local officials say killed at least four people.Zelensky said another four people were missing after the train with more than 200 people on board was hit in Ukraine’s north-eastern Kharkiv region on Tuesday.Earlier, officials in Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa said three people were killed in an overnight Russian drone attack.Russia has not commented. Moscow has in recent months intensified its drone…

Vino Studio / Nineteen57 EventsTaking to the catwalk in Ghana at the end of last year, Abena made a statement about the visibility of people with disabilitiesIt was hard to miss 33-year-old model and writer Abena Christine Jon’el’s appearance at a recent major fashion show in Ghana.Walking the runway with her prosthetic leg wrapped in a colourful African print her appearance made a big impact.The Ghanaian-American was hoping to make a statement about the visibility of people with disabilities, building on years of work in the US and here in Ghana of speaking out on the issue.At two years old,…

Google has begun rolling out two upgrades for Search. Starting today, Gemini 3 is the default model powering AI Overviews. When the company debuted its new family of AI systems last November, it first deployed Gemini 3 in AI Overviews through a router that was programmed to direct the most difficult questions to the new system. Now Google is making Gemini 3 the standard for all users globally. In practice, Gemini 3 should prove better at generating more credible and relevant summaries.As for that second upgrade, now you can jump into AI Mode conversation directly from an AI Overview. Google…

Yahoo has a new AI-powered “answer engine”, dubbed Yahoo Scout. The new tool is available now in beta and is powered by Anthropic’s .The company says Scout “synthesizes” info from the web, as well as Yahoo’s own data and content when constructing responses to user’s natural-language search queries. Yahoo says the interface will include interactive digital media, structured lists and tables and visible source links aimed at making answers easier to verify. (Disclosure: Yahoo is the parent company of Engadget.)Alongside Scout, Yahoo is announcing an “intelligence platform” across its varied products. This will include features like AI summaries in Yahoo…

Gavin ButlerandHyojung Kim,BBC World ServiceGetty ImagesThe scandals Kim Keon Hee faces predate her husband Yoon’s ill-fated political careerTwo Chanel handbags, a BMW dealership and a controversial church will all be at the centre of a trial faced by South Korea’s former first lady this week.Kim Keon Hee, the wife of disgraced former president Yoon Suk Yeol, was arrested in August over a raft of charges including bribery, stock manipulation, and political interference – all of which she denies.On Wednesday, less than a fortnight after her husband was sentenced to five years’ in jail for abusing power and obstructing justice in…

After a year that began with action in Venezuela and a trip to Davos, President Donald Trump is turning his attention back to the domestic economy. On Tuesday, Trump made a planned trip to Iowa to speak about affordability, which could be followed up by monthly speeches in more US cities and states. It comes after he commented in a White House press conference that the US economy was “great”, but “we’re not getting” the message across. White House correspondent Bernd Debusmann explains why the president’s attention has pivoted back to the economy.

The range of the Mini Countryman E has been boosted from 286 miles to 311 miles in a bid to keep pace with longer-legged EV rivals. Key to the improvement is a new silicon-carbide inverter. This reduces how much energy is lost in converting DC from the car’s battery to AC used by its motors and systems, improving range. A further uplift is brought by new low-friction wheel bearings on the front axle. The car’s battery hasn’t been physically changed, its gross capacity remaining at 66.5kWh, but its usable capacity has been increased from 64.6kWh to 65.2kWh. The tweaks also mean the four-wheel-drive Countryman…

Image: iLixe48/Envato Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The flaw allows threat actors to bypass built-in Office security protections after tricking users into opening malicious files, typically delivered through phishing or social engineering. The vulnerability “… in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally,” Microsoft said in its advisory. Inside the Office OLE bypass CVE-2026-21509 stems from weaknesses in how Microsoft Office enforces Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) security protections, which are designed to limit the risk posed by embedded COM/OLE components inside Office…