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The 1963 Ford Cardinal—too radical for America at the time

Enlarge / This was supposed to be Ford’s answer to the VW Beetle, a small, light, efficient, front-wheel drive car called Cardinal. (credit: Ford) Between 100 percent tariffs and now an impending ban on software, it’s clear that America’s auto…

The war of words between SpaceX and the FAA keeps escalating

Enlarge / Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, has called for the resignation of the FAA administrator. (credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The clash between SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration escalated this week, with Elon Musk calling for…

RTS classics StarCraft, StarCraft II make their way to PC Game Pass

Phil Spencer’s Tokyo Game Show update. Beloved real-time strategy classics StarCraft and StarCraft II will soon be available in Microsoft’s Game Pass subscription for PC, the company announced during the Tokyo Game Show. It’s already free to play both StarCraft…

Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

Enlarge (credit: Михаил Руденко | iStock / Getty Images Plus) On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn’t be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called “one of the…

EV sales remain healthy despite online doom and gloom

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Battery-electric vehicles accounted for 8 percent of new vehicle sales in June and July of this year and should be above 8 percent for September, according to estimates from S&P Global Mobility. While…