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Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

We hope downforce doesn’t ruin the racing when it arrives in a couple of years.

LONDON, ENGLAND—Formula E’s 11th season came to a close in its now-traditional London home this past weekend. In its first two seasons, it tried to make a go of racing in Battersea Park, a race that local residents rejected as too disruptive. After a five-year gap, the sport found a more receptive home at Excel London in the city’s Docklands, racing around and then through the cavernous exhibition center—something that’s only really possible with electric racing cars (or very fume-tolerant authorities).

As a location for an ePrix, Excel London is nigh-perfect. It’s fed by a pair of light rail stations just minutes from the center of town and comes preinstalled with concessions and restrooms and much of the other infrastructure that normally has to be brought in for a temporary circuit, with hotels literally walking distance. But like with most Formula E races, the few thousand fans in attendance, while not exactly an afterthought, aren’t really why the series shows up—this is a sport for an audience watching behind a screen.

It’s going to be the speed of the cars, rather than the size of the crowds, that causes Formula E to outgrow the 20-turn, 1.3-mile (2.09 km) circuit. Next year will be the final visit, before a possible Silverstone ePrix in 2027, once Gen 4 gets going.

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The Epic Games Store is coming to Google Play, following Epic’s latest court victory

Epic Games CEO says the Epic Games Store is coming to the Google Play Store. The news comes in response to a ruling by a US federal appeals court that means Google cannot prohibit developers from using the Play Store to distribute third-party app store…

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Battlefield 6 angespielt: Wenn der Boden unter den Gegnern wegbricht

Zerstörung mit System, starke Klassen und neue Taktiken: Der Multiplayer von Battlefield 6 hat beim Anspielen einen klasse Eindruck gemacht. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Battlefield, Electronic Arts)

Blame the governor! Oklahoma’s “board meeting porn” scandal goes gonzo.

Also, a cybersecurity firm analyzes the smart TV in question.

Only a week has passed since two Oklahoma Board of Education members complained about seeing nude women appear on a TV set during an official board meeting. And yet we've already reached the "just asking questions" stage of the scandal lifecycle, with the state's hard-right education boss wondering aloud if Oklahoma's governor might not be behind the whole thing.

On the surface, this appears an odd reaction. One might have expected Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters to agree with his outraged board members. You know, a sort of "Together we will unmask the degenerates who are making a mockery of our meetings with their streaming retro pornography!"

But no. Walters first put out a press release, titled "Response to the Most Absurd, False, and Gutter Political Attack from a Desperate, Failing Establishment," in which he said that "any suggestion that a device of mine was used to stream inappropriate content on the television set is categorically false."

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Banana Pi BPI-R4 Lite is a cheaper router board with with 2.5 GbE and Gigabit LAN and optional WiFi 7, 4G, and 5G support

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Lite is a router board with a 2.5 Gigabit WAN port, a 2.5 Gigabit SFP connector, and four Gigabit LAN ports. There’s also an mPCIe slot for an optional WiFi 7 card and M.2 connector for 4G and/or 5G cards. But, as the name im…

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US moves to ban shady subscription auto-renewals after FTC court loss

Canceling subscriptions should be easy, lawmakers say, reviving FTC fight.

Canceling a subscription should be easy, Democratic lawmakers insisted Wednesday, introducing a bill to revive the Federal Trade Commission's so-called "Click-to-Cancel" rule.

The FTC hoped to enforce the rule due to "increasing reports of consumers losing time and money from intentionally difficult subscription cancellation processes," lawmakers said. But cable companies sued to block the FTC rule last year, arguing that the FTC failed to conduct an economic impact study before making it easier to cancel over a billion paid subscriptions in the US.

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court nullified the rule, agreeing with an administrative law judge that the FTC skipped a regulatory analysis required to pass the rule since compliance costs would exceed $100 million. That study would have included cost-benefit analyses of alternatives to the rule, in addition to gauging the rule's effectiveness in comparison to those alternatives.

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Trump suspends trade loophole for cheap online retailers globally

US spiking costs to import cheap goods from anywhere rattles e-commerce giants.

E-commerce giants everywhere felt the sting Wednesday when President Donald Trump announced that the US will be "suspending duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value shipments" worth $800 or less from anywhere in the world.

Americans will likely soon feel the crunch, with one recent study estimating that the cost of eliminating the trade loophole overall to US consumers could fall between $10.9 billion and $13 billion while "disproportionately" hurting "lower-income and minority consumers" who buy a higher percentage of cheap imports.

Price hikes will likely come this fall, as the trade loophole will be closed starting on August 29, with Amazon emerging as perhaps the biggest question mark for US consumers wondering how hard their wallets may be hit by the major trade policy change ahead of the holiday shopping season.

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