The fuel efficiency for 2021 model year vehicles in the U.S. remained flat with the previous year, according to a new annual report released Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Driving the news: According to the report, the real-world average attained by the new 2021 model year vehicles was 25.4 miles per gallon, the same as it was for new 2020 model year vehicles.
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle responded on Sunday to Twitter owner Elon Musk's call to prosecute National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci.
Driving the news: "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci," Musk tweeted early Sunday morning, prompting a barrage of replies from officials.
Unlockable armorin Assassin’s Creed Valhalla that appeared to be designed to resemble Marvel Comics’ Iron Man has been changed to look way less Iron Man-y, according to people scouring the game’s code.
Driving the news: Data-miners noticed last week that the still unreleased “Advanced Mechanicals” armor set is now gray, not red and copper.
Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham last week tweeted that automation is enabling founders to grow successful companies with fewer people, adding that "in the limit case you're left with just the founders."
This came in the wake of OpenAI, led by Graham protégé Sam Altman, releasing a generative AI tool that eventually could enable engineers to do more in less time.
A big question is if the venture capital market on the verge of a counterintuitive dichotomy, whereby the number of tech startups grows but the amount of required monies shrinks.
2022 saw an unprecedented rise in labor organizing in U.S. tech firms, with some workers pushing for collective rights just as a tanking economy changed the industry's dynamics.
Yes, but: So far, tech's labor activism has largely moved on the margins of the industry, with Amazon warehouse workers, Apple Store employees and video game QA testers leading organizing efforts, while engineers, product teams and other headquarters staff mostly shied away.
The Twitter Files, a set of internal documents shared by Elon Musk with two outside reporters, purports to share an objective history of how Twitter operated under prior management. But instead it's become a political Rorschach test.
Why it matters: Reaction to the Twitter Files has been more revelatory than the disclosures themselves, although that could be my own confirmation bias coming through.
