Most of us know that water and electricity don't mix, but some drivers were wrapping cool, damp towels around Tesla Supercharger handles to speed up charging. Surprise, that's a bad idea. Tesla owners have been officially warned off using the famed wet towel trick. It only took the automaker two months to make the announcement. The trick, in case you don't know, involves dampening a towel and then wrapping it around a Tesla Supercharger handle. This cools down ..read more

Grok is telling voters that presidential ballots are locked in eight states, but Democratic delegates haven't started voting and states haven't yet printed ballots for the general election. Elon Musk's Grok is at it again. This time, the AI chatbot has been caught erroneously telling voters that the US presidential ballot is finalized in eight states. As The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports, people are sharing screenshots of Grok telling them ..read more

Microsoft's latest Surface Laptop Studio 2 challenges Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro for the hearts of creative pros. Here's how their features and capabilities stack up. Surface Laptop Studio 2 vs. MacBook Pro 14-Inch: Pricing and Availability While plenty of specific features differentiate the Surface Laptop Studio 2 and the MacBook Pro, they're perfectly matched in one area: Both systems share a base price of roughly $2,000 (if you skip the stripped-down vanilla-M3 MacBook Pro for a ..read more

Intel says its patch to fix the crash bug in 13th and 14th Generation Core desktop chips might not fully repair the issue for PCs already experiencing the problem. Intel’s fix to stop 13th and 14th Generation Core desktop chips from crashing might not be enough to fully repair the problem. As the company prepares to release a patch next month, Intel is facing reports that the crash bug can permanently degrade the processors. In ..read more

A report from Sens. Markey and Wyden document how GM, Honda, and Hyundai used dark-pattern interfaces to collect data and market it to data brokers. The road to driver-privacy hell is paved—and paid for—in nickels, dimes and pennies, courtesy of driver data that car makers sell to data brokers without their customers' consent, according to new findings from two Democratic lawmakers. Sens. Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today ..read more

The best Android smartwatch for the price Samsung's $199.99 Galaxy Watch FE is a rare smartwatch running Google’s app-rich Wear OS platform to launch at a budget-friendly price. It only comes in one size, the screen has big bezels, and it’s missing Samsung's Galaxy AI holistic health insights, but it otherwise offers almost ..read more

A private messaging app that's almost too private Session is a highly secure, open-source private messaging app that you can use on every device you own. We like the anonymity that Session offers, as it requires absolutely no personal information in order to sign up. That said, slow texts, inconsistent call quality ..read more

Public tweets are being used to train Grok. Here's how to opt out of the data scraping. X—or as most of us still call it, Twitter—has made a change to its default settings that allows everything you post and do on the platform to be used to train Grok, a ChatGPT competitor from X owner Elon Musk's xAI startup. Musk ..read more

The revamped app was met with harsh criticism after many basic features were removed. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence this week apologized for the lackluster user experience on the company's redesigned app and promised to fix it. On May 7, Sonos released a new version of its app, which millions of customers use to ..read more

The messaging app is growing rapidly in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and Seattle. WhatsApp now has 100 million monthly users in the US. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke the news on his WhatsApp channel. In a follow-up blog post, he said "this milestone has been a long time coming and it ..read more