Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 2

The Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 2 is a 2-in-1 Windows tablet with a detachable keyboard featuring Lenovo’s TrackPoint system with a touchpad and a pointing stick as well as a built-in kickstand for the tablet and optional support for a pr…

The Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable Gen 2 is a 2-in-1 Windows tablet with a detachable keyboard featuring Lenovo’s TrackPoint system with a touchpad and a pointing stick as well as a built-in kickstand for the tablet and optional support for a pressure-sensitive pen that attaches to the side of the tablet magnetically when it’s not in use. […]

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Avenir’s Energizer HardCase P28K is a rugged smartphone with a 28,000 mAh battery

The Energizer brand is best known for batteries, so it probably shouldn’t be surprising that the company with the rights to use the Energizer name on its smartphones has a habit of making models where the battery is the stand-out feature. A few …

The Energizer brand is best known for batteries, so it probably shouldn’t be surprising that the company with the rights to use the Energizer name on its smartphones has a habit of making models where the battery is the stand-out feature. A few years ago Avenir Telecom launched a crowdfunding campaign for the Energizer P18K […]

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Ford’s wacky electric Supervan 4.2 sets a new lap record at Bathurst

With Romain Dumas behind the wheel, it lapped Mt Panorama in under 2 minutes.

Ford SuperVan 4.2 at 2024 Thrifty Bathurst 500, Event 01 of the Repco Supercars Championship, Mount Panorama, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia on Feb. 22, 2024.

Enlarge / The Ford Performance Supervan 4.2 has spent a couple of weeks at Mount Panorama in Bathurst, Australia. (credit: Ford)

Ford's series of Supervan demonstrators now have a long pedigree of going faster at racetracks than vans are supposed to go. The current example is Supervan 4.2, which was built to celebrate—and draw attention to—the fact that there's a fully electric version of the commercial vehicle. And its latest feat is a new unofficial lap record at Mount Panorama in Australia.

Supervan wasn't racing there—few competition events other than the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb have rules loose enough to let it enter. But the van was sent Down Under on a promotional tour that started with some demo laps before the Bathurst 12-hour sports car race, which was held a couple of weekends ago at the Mount Panorama circuit in New South Wales.

Instead of just showing up, doing some demo laps, and leaving, the Ford Performance team and Supervan decided to hang around and put on more demo laps this past weekend, when the circuit played host to a round of the Supercars championship—think Australian NASCAR.

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Lenovo’s 2024 Thinkpad T14 and T16 laptops have user-replaceable parts (including batteries)

As laptops have gotten thinner and lighter, PC makers have moved away from including user-replaceable parts. The first to go were user-replaceable batteries, but a growing number of notebooks also have memory, and sometimes even storage, soldered to t…

As laptops have gotten thinner and lighter, PC makers have moved away from including user-replaceable parts. The first to go were user-replaceable batteries, but a growing number of notebooks also have memory, and sometimes even storage, soldered to the motherboard. But a key selling point for Lenovo’s new ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 and ThinkPad T16 Gen […]

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Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter

This new data should help us understand Ingenuity’s final moments on Mars.

An image of <em>Ingenuity</em> captured by <em>Perseverance</em>'s SuperCam RMI instrument.

Enlarge / An image of Ingenuity captured by Perseverance's SuperCam RMI instrument. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/Simeon Schmauß)

It has now been several weeks since NASA's tenacious helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, made its final flight above the red planet.

This happened last month. On January 6, Ingenuity flew 40 feet (12 meters) skyward but then made an unplanned early landing after just 35 seconds. Twelve days later operators intended to troubleshoot the vehicle with a quick up-and-down test. Data from the vehicle indicated that it ascended to 40 feet again during this test, but then communications were ominously lost at the end of the flight.

On January 20 NASA reestablished communications with the helicopter, but the space agency declared an end to its flying days after an image of the vehicle's shadow showed that at least one of its blades had sustained minor damage. This capped an end to a remarkable mission during which Ingenuity exceeded all expectations.

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