Meredith's Training Diary: How to Choose a Marathon Training Program

Meredith's Training Diary: How to Choose a Marathon Training Program

Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers?

August was an eventful month for driverless taxis in San Francisco. On August 10, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow Google's Waymo and GM's Cruise to begin charging customers f...

Acura unveils its first GM-based electric vehicle, the new ZDX

Today in California, Acura took the wraps off its first electric vehicle. It's called the ZDX, and it's the product of a partnership between Honda (which owns Acura) and General Motors, using the latt...

Chinese luxury EV brand Zeekr continues global push into Kazakhstan

Zeekr, the luxury electric vehicle brand under China's Geely Automobile Holdings, says it will launch its Zeekr 001 shooting brake and Zeekr X SUV in Kazakhstan by the fourth quarter of 2023.Kazakhsta...

Across the Spider-Verse's greatest feat is the way it takes Spider-Man's fandom to task

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse throws more than a few eye-catching supervillains at Miles Morales as he races around a kaleidoscopic multiverse trying to outrun a fleet of other Spider-People. Bu...

Wine snobs all over California cry into their Cab Sav as Apple launches new OS

Apple released its new Mac OS operating system, naming it Sonoma, after the well-known wine region just north of Apple's home in Silicon Valley - Sonoma.Apple debuts macOS 14 Sonoma"When it came to na...

Across the Spider-Verse is an animated masterpiece that upends Marvel's Spider-canon

The concepts of multiverses and people traveling from one reality to another existed long before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. But the 2018 animated feature did such a tremendous job of using tho...

Ford tries zagging in the EV arms race

Ford CEO Jim Farley called it a "personal bullet train." Doug Field, the automaker's chief advanced product development and technology officer, described it as "groundbreaking."Ford's next-generation ...

AI touches everything, everywhere all at once at Disrupt

Like it or not, AI is part of our lives from here on out -- for better or worse. In the past six months alone, TechCrunch has written nearly 600 articles focused on the impact of AI technology in our ...

Vietnam's first export EV, Vinfast VF8, makes shaky but promising US debut

ENCINITAS, CALIF.--Starting a new car company isn't especially easy. Tesla struggled for years to become self-sustainable, and newer startups like Rivian and Lucid have run into plenty of their own ro...

Self-Driving Cars Are Being Put on a Data Diet

[photo1]Paresh DaveFor self-driving-car developers, like many iPhone and Google Photos users, the growing cost of storing files on the cloud has become a nagging headache.Early on, robocar companies p...

The 2023 Kia Niro EV is incredibly efficient and a great all-around car

Last month, we reviewed a great little hybrid, the 2023 Kia Niro. In fact, Kia offers this little hatchback with three different efficient powertrains, and today we're looking at the entirely electric...

Here's a look at Lucid's next luxury EV, the Gravity SUV

The luxurious Lucid Air might be expensive, but it is rather good. But one model alone is not enough to sustain a car company, particularly when that model is a sedan, a form factor now rather less in...

Whether to Turn on the A/C or Roll Down the Windows, According to Science

Rolling down the windows seems like the most eco-friendly and economical way to cool off when you're driving. You don't have to turn on the air conditioning, because you get a nice breeze from nature ...

You Can Get Spirit Gold Status As a Member of These Other Loyalty Programs

Spirit Airlines is holding a limited-time "status match" for members of certain hotel or airline rewards programs. Those who qualify will be eligible to get entry-level for Silver status or top-tier G...

Miles Morales must make a sacrifice in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse trailer

We loved the 2018 computer-animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and we weren't alone. The film racked up $375.5 million at the global box office against a $90 million production budget and...

Niu's latest scooter falls short on built-for-the-city promise

The Niu Technologies KQi3 Max has the kind of specs that should make it the ideal scooter for urban dwellers -- especially those who live in hilly terrain. The 46.5-pound scooter has enough power to w...

The Mining Industry's Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea

[photo1]Vince BeiserIn October of last year, an enormous new creature appeared on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean, about 1,400 miles southwest of San Diego. It was a remote-controlled, 90-ton machine ...

The Best American Cities for Remote Workers Right Now

[photo1]Within the span of only a few years, remote office work went from being considered a perk--or something that wasn't feasible for most people--to a necessity during the early days of the COVID-...

Review: Ride1Up Cafe Cruiser

[photo1]Adrienne So7/10If someone tells me that they're scared of electric bikes, but have ridden bikes before, I assume that the type of bike they've tried looks something like Ride1Up's Cafe Cruiser...