Sign In
By signing in or creating an account, you agree with Associated Broadcasting Company's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
By signing in or creating an account, you agree with Associated Broadcasting Company's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
German car fans already know this story very well. You buy the car, you fall in love with it, and then one day your regular neighbourhood mechanic looks at the engine bay and quietly shakes his head. German brands love special tools, special bolts, special shapes, and parts that refuse to cooperate with normal spanners. Now BMW seems ready to push that experience to an even sharper level. A new patent spotted by CarBuzz shows BMW working on a screw that is literally shaped like the BMW logo. Sounds funny at first, but this screw is not meant to be friendly. It is designed so that standard tools cannot remove it. That means only people with BMW’s special equipment or authorised access will be able to open it. BMW’s very BMW decision German cars have always had complicated fittings. Anyone who has owned a VAG cars, Mercedes, or BMW already knows the drill. Triple-square bolts, giant Torx bits, unusual E-Torx fittings, and even big socket tools just to open something as basic as an...
New Delhi: TikTok has moved one big step closer to securing its future in the United States, and it almost feels like the end of a very long drama. As someone who has followed this story since the early days when the app first came under fire, it honestly feels strange to see it finally reaching a clearer stage after so much confusion, legal pressure and political noise. More than 170 million Americans use the platform daily, and many had been wondering whether the app would be banned or saved. Now, TikTok is moving forward with a new structure that shifts control of its U.S. operations into American hands. This comes after years of debates, courtroom battles and diplomatic negotiations involving Washington, Beijing and global investors. The company has even told employees that binding agreements are now signed and the path is laid out. A new U.S. joint venture to take control of TikTok operations According to an internal memo seen by Axios, TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S....
Honda, one of the biggest names in global mobility, is again feeling the heat of the auto-chip shortage, and this time the impact looks serious for Asia. We have seen supply chain chaos before, but the fact that such a huge brand still cannot get enough “simple” car chips shows how unpredictable the auto industry has become. As per reports by Digitimes , the company is now preparing to pause production both in Japan and China right at the beginning of the new year. I honestly find it wild how a tiny chip that controls basic car functions like wipers and power windows can bring giant factories to a halt. It also reminds me of chats with industry executives earlier this year who warned that older automotive chips are harder to replace than fancy new tech parts, and now we are watching that fear turn real. Honda’s Japan and China plants to hit pause as chip supply stumbles Honda will stop vehicle production at several plants in Japan on January 5 and 6, with reduced output...
New Delhi: Formula 1 is getting ready for one of its biggest rule resets in decades, and the first official renders of the 2026 cars are now out. The FIA has laid out how the next generation of F1 machines will look and work, and the changes are not small. From how the cars slice through air to how drivers deploy electric power, almost everything is being rethought. For fans who follow both racing and road cars, this matters more than it sounds. Formula 1 often acts like a testing ground for tech that later reaches regular cars. The 2026 rules aim to make racing closer, cars lighter, and engines more relevant to the real world. Teams like Ferrari and Mercedes will not be alone anymore. Audi joins in 2026, Red Bull builds its own engines with Ford, and Honda is back. Smaller, lighter cars are finally coming back One of the biggest complaints in recent years was how large and heavy F1 cars had become. The FIA has addressed that directly. From 2026, the cars will be shorter, narrower,...
New Delhi: After nearly three decades shaping how Mercedes-Benz cars look and feel, Gorden Wagener is set to step down from his role as chief design officer on January 31, 2026. The company says the decision was taken by mutual agreement, marking the end of an era for one of the most influential designers in the modern auto industry. His successor, Bastian Baudy, currently the lead designer at Mercedes-AMG, will take charge from February 1. For car enthusiasts, this is not just a routine executive exit. Wagener’s fingerprints are on some of the most talked-about Mercedes models of the past 20 years. From sleek sedans to dramatic sports cars, his work helped pull the brand out of a conservative design shell and into something far more emotional and expressive. From engineer-led looks to emotion-led design Wagener joined Mercedes-Benz in 1997 and rose quickly through the ranks. By 2008, at just 39, he became the youngest global design head in the industry. At that time, Mercedes cars...
New Delhi: In a secure lab in Shenzhen, China is testing a prototype machine that could one day let it make the most advanced chips on its own, according to a Reuters report. The machine is meant to mimic ASML’s extreme ultraviolet lithography system, the gold-standard tool that sits at the centre of the US-led export push to keep Beijing away from top-end chipmaking. Reuters says the prototype was completed in early 2025 and now occupies almost an entire factory floor. Sources told the agency it was built by former ASML engineers and is already generating extreme ultraviolet light, even if it has not produced working chips yet. China’s “Manhattan Project” claim, and what’s really happening People familiar with the effort described it as China’s version of the Manhattan Project, the US wartime programme to build the atomic bomb. One source framed the end goal in blunt terms: “The aim is for China to eventually be able to make advanced chips on machines that are entirely...
New Delhi: Meta has added a new chapter to its Segment Anything story, this time focused on sound. The company has introduced SAM Audio , a new artificial intelligence model designed to separate and isolate sounds from complex audio. The announcement positions audio as the next frontier after images and video, an area that has long remained messy and tool-heavy for creators and researchers. For anyone who has struggled to clean background noise from a video or podcast, the idea feels familiar. Audio editing often means jumping between tools, filters, and guesswork. Meta says SAM Audio aims to simplify that process by letting people interact with sound in ways that feel natural, using text, visuals, or time markers, according to details shared in its official blog post. What Meta’s SAM Audio actually does Meta describes SAM Audio as “a first-of-its-kind model for segmenting sound.” In its words, “We’re introducing SAM Audio, a state-of-the-art unified model that transforms...
New Delhi: OpenAI may be preparing for another major shift in how it raises money and runs its massive AI systems. The company behind ChatGPT is in early talks with Amazon about a large investment and the possible use of Amazon-made AI chips. The discussions are still private and fluid, but the numbers involved are already drawing attention across the tech world. According to people familiar with the matter, OpenAI is exploring a deal that could bring in at least $10 billion from Amazon and push its valuation beyond $500 billion. If this moves ahead, it would deepen OpenAI’s ties beyond Microsoft and place Amazon more firmly in the fast-moving AI infrastructure race. OpenAI and Amazon enter early talks A person with knowledge of the discussions said the deal under discussion could value OpenAI north of $500 billion and see the company adopt Amazon’s Trainium chip. The person asked to remain anonymous since the negotiations are private and still at an early stage. The source also...
New Delhi: Google is quietly switching off one of its newer privacy tools, and many users may not even notice until it is gone. The company has confirmed that its Dark web report feature will be discontinued in early 2026, barely two years after it first appeared as a way to warn people if their personal data showed up in shady corners of the internet. I remember when this tool launched in 2023. Back then, dark web monitoring felt like something only banks or hardcore security pros talked about. Suddenly, Google was telling regular users, even my uncle who still forgets his Gmail password, that they could track leaked emails and phone numbers. That experiment is now coming to an end. Google is shutting down dark web report in 2026 Google says scans for new dark web breaches will stop on January 15, 2026. The feature itself will be fully retired on February 16, 2026. In a support document explaining the decision, Google said, “While the report offered general information, feedback...
New Delhi: Disney is drawing a hard line in the fast-moving world of generative AI, and the timing matters. On one side, the entertainment giant has accused Google of large-scale copyright infringement tied to AI image and video generation. On the other, Disney has signed a sweeping licensing and investment deal with OpenAI, one that openly allows its characters to be used inside generative AI systems under defined rules. For anyone watching how Hollywood and Big Tech collide, this contrast tells a bigger story. Disney is not rejecting AI outright. It is pushing for control, consent, and commercial terms, especially when its characters and worlds are involved. Disney sends cease-and-desist letter to Google over AI use According to Variety, Disney has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google, accusing the company of “massive” copyright infringement linked to its AI models and services. The letter from Disney’s lawyers to Google’s general counsel claims that Google copied a...
No posts found.
