How to spice up your Amazon Alexa device Feel like your smart home assistant needs a bit of an upgrade? Kurt “The CyberGuy” Knutsson shares steps on how you can change your Amazon Alexa’s name and accent. Ever felt that your smart home assistant’s voice doesn’t quite match your aesthetic or mood? Well, Alexa is…
Ola Cruiser Electric Motorcycle Ola Electric recently unveiled its future intentions for the Indian two-wheeler electric market at an event, where it made an important introduction of 4 distinct electric motorcycles. The four electric motorcycles from Ola Electric are all hailed as trailblazers in the Indian market for electric two-wheelers and were each designed with…
Hunter-gatherer societies on the Iberian Peninsula were making sophisticated baskets with decorative geometric patterns 9,500 years ago, more than 2,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers in Spain have reported. The researchers also said that sandals that were found in the same cave as the baskets represent the “earliest and most diverse set of plant-based…
To encourage the establishment of semiconductor manufacturing facilities in India, the government has implemented schemes like the production-linked incentive (PLI) and design-linked incentive (DLI). The worldwide semiconductor sector has witnessed growth driven by enhanced digitalisation and technology adoption across fields such as AI, IoT, healthcare, and communications. The revenue of the global semiconductor industry touched…
Which automaker accelerated efforts to go all-electric in Europe and the U.K.? Which EV’s tech will cost $2,500 a year so drivers can take eyes off the road and hands off the wheel—below 40 mph? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 29,…
Fisker Inc. announced its intention to offer $170,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of 0% senior unsecured convertible notes due 2025 (the “Notes”) to an existing institutional investor (the “Investor”), with such Notes having an original issue discount of approximately 12%, resulting in gross proceeds of $150,000,000 to Fisker. The Notes are being sold pursuant to…
Gabrielle Glaze felt scolded and shamed when she delivered her first son in a Birmingham, Ala., hospital, forced to observe strict rules about lying stationary through her contractions and enduring countless cervical checks from “total strangers” who seemed disappointed by her body’s progress. So when Ms. Glaze, 33, gave birth to a second son in…
In her basement on the South Side of Chicago, Crystal Vance beamed a flashlight onto the water source for her home: a rusted and leaking lead pipe. Ms. Vance, 35, knows well the dangers of lead contamination. Her 5-year-old son tested for elevated levels of lead as a baby, something that still weighs on her…
It has never been easy for Mary Cole to support herself and the 19-year-old grandson who lives with her in Bristol, Va., on her monthly $914 Supplemental Security Income check. But it’s getting harder. “I’ve been struggling a lot,” Ms. Cole said. Because benefits counselors at her local agency on aging have helped her apply…
According to a statement put out by the minister’s office, during his discussion with Aptiv, Patil invited the company to explore the possibility of setting up an R&D centre in Mysuru, and Hubballi-Dharward. Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development MB Patil has invited global semiconductor and automotive technology companies to…
