Columbus, OH

SlashGear

In my 35-plus years of working on cars, I have encountered nearly every frustrating troubleshooting problem in the book. Part of the issue stems from my affinity for old Jeeps and classic cars, which tend to generate more problems due to the deterioration of decades-old rubber gaskets, seals, and hoses. While it's usually easy to locate an oil or coolant leak thanks to the drip, stream, or fountain of liquid coming from said leak, finding vacuum leaks can be a less straightforward process.

How To Check Your Vehicle Engine For Vacuum Leaks

The Yamaha YZF-R6 (or commonly known as the R6), is renowned for its razor-sharp handling and thrilling performance. Featuring a 599cc inline-four engine, the R6 delivers an impressive 116 horsepower at 14,500 rpm. This high-revving motorcycle engine, combined with the bike's lightweight design, ensures an exhilarating machine that demands to be pushed to its limits.

How Fast Is The Yamaha R6? A Look At Its Top Speed And Acceleration Times

Diesel trucks often will have two batteries hiding in their engine compartments. Those batteries can serve one of a few important purposes. Here's what we know.

Why Do Diesel Trucks Have Two Batteries?

The heat wave engulfing most of the country is taking a toll on the 24.5 million Americans who are expected to face “dangerous levels of heat,” per to The New York Times. Heat waves are not only detrimental to your health but can take a huge toll on wallets as well. Indeed, as USA Today reported, “the average cost of electricity bills in the summer has increased by 51% from $476 in 2014 to an estimated $719 in 2024.”

How To Save Money on Your Electricity Bills and More During a Heat Wave

When you slow down escaping water to 82,000 frames per second, it looks unreal — like magic pixie dust glittering in the light. Here’s an entire hour of that. I’m mesmerized. Just the latest example of a slow-mo camera unlocking the fourth dimension; in this case, it’s...

Here’s an hour of shimmering water droplets exploding from a balloon in ultra slow motion.

South Carolina State

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The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

Identifying why your window AC isn't blowing cold air is the first step in restoring comfort to your living space. Troubleshooting a window AC unit yourself can help you determine if it's a simple problem such as a clogged filter or a more complex issue like a control panel. Then, if you're unable to fix the AC unit yourself, you can at least decide whether it's best to call a professional for repair or replace the unit.

Why Is Your Window AC Not Blowing Cold Air? 5 Reasons Why and How to Fix It

You don’t realize how important it is to find oil in Once Human until you need to start making fuel for your vehicles. There’s nothing worse than being stranded and far away from the nearest teleportation tower. However, you can turn oil into Portable Mixed Fuel and get even further.

Once Human: Where to Farm Crude Oil

Strength-boosting exoskeleton suits can help make jobs with physical labor feel less strenuous, but Arc’teryx has partnered with Skip, a spinoff of Google’s X Labs, to bring the technology to leisure time. The powered MO/GO pants feature a lightweight electric motor at the knee that can boost a hiker’s leg strength when going uphill while also absorbing the impact of steps during a descent.

Arc’teryx’s new powered pants could make hikers feel 30 pounds lighter

Atlanta, GA

The US Sun

DRIVERS took their cars to a drive-thru oil change business for convenience - almost immediately, they faced severe engine damage. Even a police department blamed the business for $6,000 worth of damage to their cruisers. Take 5 is a popular oil change chain that advertises an oil change that is...

My car engine started smoking after I took it for an oil change – then it was out of commission for six months

The company claims its triple laser PX3-PRO is the world’s first UST projector to be “Designed for Xbox.” What that means isn’t entirely clear given the Xbox can’t take advantage of the projector’s 240Hz maximum refresh rate. More useful may be the $3,499.99 PX3-PRO’s...

Hisense’s ultra-short throw laser projector is now Xbox certified.

The text-to-image generator, which is trained on Getty’s stock pictures, now uses an upgraded version of Nvidia’s Edify AI model, making it faster and more accurate. It also comes with new features to control the “camera settings” used in an AI-generated image, such as depth of field or focal length.

Getty upgrades its AI image generator.

Meta has shut down its AI chatbots that let you have conversations with alter-ego versions of celebrities, as reported by The Information. The celebrity chatbots were a big part of Meta’s announcements at its Connect event last September, now, you can’t talk with them anymore. The shutdown follows...

Meta moves on from its celebrity lookalike AI chatbots

As any vehicle owner knows, routine engine maintenance is the best way to both ensure the long term health of the complex mechanism powering your car, truck, or SUV. However, even owners who choose to avoid bad habits that can damage an engine likely also know that maintaining an engine's health is no easy feat.

Hydrolocked Engines: What Are They And Can They Be Fixed?

It’s one of the most common low-stakes annoyances in modern life: you flop down on the couch at the end of the day, finally with a few minutes to watch one of the dozens of incredible shows or movies you have access to thanks to the peak TV era and the advent of streaming, and you start scrolling. Instead of actually watching anything, you spend an interminable evening opening apps, aimlessly scrolling through endless rows of same-looking tiles. You eventually give up and watch The Office again.

In search of the perfect movie recommendation

The Financial Times takes a look at the latest generation of shoes with carbon-fiber plates that have helped deliver an uptick in record-smashing long-distance performances ever since the Nike Vaporfly was released in 2017. Other brands are now catching up with their own shoe tech:. Nike and Adidas are not...

Super shoe race.

This viral photo of Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina’s mid-air celebration from the 2024 Paris Olympics was suspected by some to be AI or Photoshop. But it’s just an excellently timed pic by photographer Jérôme Brouillet, and The Guardian has some background on how he anticipated the moment and nabbed it.

Who needs AI when humans can be this cool?

Sam Westreich, PhD

It’s not humans. How a survivor of a super-extinction repopulated our planet. There are more than 8 billion humans alive at this moment on Earth (unless something has gone horribly wrong). But humans aren’t the only dominant mammals.

For Millions of Years, Earth Was Dominated by a Single Vertebrate Genus

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

You can buy the tablet from OnePlus.com for $549.99 and from Amazon this coming August. I’m still in the testing process, but so far I like it. It offers the same value as its predecessor but is faster and more powerful, with six stereo speakers that sound phenomenal. It’s still not the best for work, though. My full review is coming soon, so stay tuned.

The new OnePlus Pad 2 is now available.

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Lime tests two new e-bikes you don’t have to pedal

Lime is testing two new e-bikes designed to make bike-sharing accessible to a wider range of riders. Alongside throttles that mean you don’t have to pedal...

Lime tests two new e-bikes you don’t have to pedal

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