Matt Cardy/Getty Images Electric vehicle sales have surged in recent years, with more than 1.6 million sold in 2023 worldwide, according to Market Watch. That was up 60% from the year before, and internal combustion vehicles are scheduled for bans in the European Union and 12 of the U.S. states by 2035. SlashGear has already […]
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DELBO ANDREA/Shutterstock Autonomous driving has advanced from the spring-powered cart invented by Leonardo Da Vinci around 1500 to a five-level classification that ranges from 0 (no or minimal autonomous features) to 5 (completely self-driving). Cars on the market today don’t offer more than level 4 autonomous driving, and most sit at about level 2. The delay in
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Like it or not, Tesla is the most successful EV maker for the time being. No matter how long a legacy automaker has been making cars, it will be compared to Tesla when it decides to make an EV. To Tesla’s credit, the brand sells a lot of EVs. During the first quarter of 2024, Tesla
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Rumors continue to heat up ahead of Samsung’s next big «Unpacked» product launch event, which is expected sometime in the second week of July. For several years, Samsung’s late summer «Unpacked» events have mostly centered around their foldable smartphones. That tradition is likely to continue this time around as well, with Samsung preparing to show
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Ste Knight / SlashGear Huawei used to be one of the up-and-coming global phone brands. However, it has been massively affected by the America’s sanctions on China, causing it to lose access to advanced smartphone chips and Google Play Services — the two things it needs to remain competitive versus Samsung and Apple. While that
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Most Americans may not realize it, but Taiwanese tech company and once giant Android manufacturer HTC still makes smartphones. It’s just that, five years ago, HTC largely abandoned the U.S. market — when HTC launched the only phone listed on its current American-facing website: the blockchain-centric Exodus. A July 2019 Wired article suggests that, among other reasons, devoting itself
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In July 2023, Chinese smartphone major Honor refreshed its smartphone lineup with the Honor 90 series. The lineup featured two devices — the Honor 90 and the Honor 90 Pro — both targeted at people seeking affordable, value-for-money smartphones. Fast-forward to June 2024, and Honor has just confirmed the launch of the Honor 200 series,
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On June 18, 2023, the OceanGate Titan submersible was lost on an expedition to explore the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, taking five lives with it, including Stockton Rush, OceanGate’s CEO. The Titan was reported to have imploded during its dive, killing the five-person crew nearly instantly. The initial loss of the
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sylv1rob1/Shutterstock While Harley-Davidson is regarded by many as America’s preeminent manufacturer of motorcycles, the legendary bike maker is technically not the oldest in the continental United States. In fact, George H. Hendee founded the company that would become Indian Motorcycles in 1897, six years before William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson started making motorcycles. Hendee’s
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Tada Images/Shutterstock Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard murmurs of Siri getting its biggest upgrade ever, thanks to AI, alongside some crucial upgrades destined for iOS. But it seems Apple will lock access to some of those next-gen capabilities behind expensive hardware limitations, and they might actually hurt smartphone users more than Mac loyalists.
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Before splurging on a pair of premium headphones or earbuds, people often have concerns over two key factors – noise isolation and transparency. Active Noise Cancellation essentially tries to block all external noise so that you only hear what the audio drivers are blasting inside your ear canal, while transparency allows limited passthrough of ambient
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Around four years ago, Spotify announced Car Thing, a very plainly-named device designed to extend some of your phone’s functionality, particularly Spotify playback, to older cars while keeping your phone tucked away. Car Thing didn’t see wide release until February 2022, though, and professional reviews were less than glowing. By and large, the takeaway was that
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