Photo by Patrick George for The Verge Hyundai is recalling over 145,000 Ioniq and Genesis vehicles due to a 12-volt battery charging issue that could cause the EVs to lose drive power and increase the risk of a crash. NHTSA says the cause is the vehicles' Integrated Charging Control Unit (ICCU), which is likely to get damaged due to an internal electrical fault. Upon failure of the ICCU, a series of driver warnings appear, and the vehicle activates a “fail-safe” driving mode that slowly reduces drive power over the course of 20 to 40 minutes. Hyundai will instruct owners to take affected vehicles to dealerships to replace the ICCU and its associated fuse and install new software to prevent overvoltage that could damage the part again. Hyundai told NHTSA that as of November... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge A New York judge has determined that SiriusXM’s “long and burdensome” cancellation process is illegal. In a ruling on Thursday, Judge Lyle Frank found SiriusXM violates a federal law that requires companies to make it easy to cancel a subscription. The decision comes nearly one year after New York Attorney General Leticia James sued SiriusXM over claims the company makes subscriptions difficult to cancel. Following an investigation, the Office of the Attorney General found that the company attempts to delay cancellations by having customers call an agent, who then keeps them on the phone for serval minutes while “pitching the subscriber as many as five retention offers.” As outlined in the ruling, Judge Frank found that SiriusXM broke... Continue reading…

Gemini could spring into action soon. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google released the first Android 16 developer preview earlier this week and keen-eyed observers are already uncovering interesting tidbits, including one that hints about a much more useful future for Google’s AI assistant. In Android Authority, Mishaal Rahman writes about a mysterious new API in Android 16 called “app functions,” which appears to give Gemini Assistant agentic-like abilities to take action in apps. It sounds awfully similar to the upgraded “app intents” Apple supports in iOS 18, and it’s exactly the kind of thing that could make AI assistants much more useful than they are in their current state. A page on Google’s developer site describes an app function as “a specific piece of functionality that an app offers to the... Continue reading…

A series of petroglyphs have been identified in the Alpine Lombardy region at over 3,000 meters (9842 feet), more than 7 years after they were found by a hiker from Como. Found on Pizzo Tresero (Valfurva) within the Stelvio National Park, the strange carvings were at the foot of the glacier of the same name. Radiocarbon dating and analysis pointed too the petroglyphs dating to the Middle Bronze Age, between 3,600 and 3,200 years ago. The location is currently a historical hotspot, as another paleontological find has just been reported in the same vicinity - a fossilized ecosystem dating back 280 million years, from the Paleozoic era, in the Orobie Valtellinesi Park! “15,000-year-old” Gobi Desert Petroglyphs Made By Ancient Turks? Expert in Chinese Petroglyphs Supports Theory Ancient Chinese Made It to America Man and spiral petroglyph found in the Stelvio National Park, Lombardy, Italy. (Photo provided free of charge by the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of the provinces of Como, Lecco, Monza and Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio and Varese. /Regione Lombardia) Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient WritingsNewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later 

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