When we talk about newer features that started showing up in cars within the last couple of decades, Apple CarPlay is always a popular one, but personally, I still marvel at surround-view camera systems. The idea is so simple, and yet, they feel a little like magic. Sure, I'd rather have smaller cars that are easy to see out of, but the technology is great. Especially if an errant pebble takes out the windshield of the Honda Prelude you were scheduled to receive, and the press car you get as a replacement ends up being a Honda Pilot that's almost 60 inches longer than the Fiat 500e you drive daily.
Disney+ enters August with an exciting slate of new releases, old favorites and live sports tournaments.
August starts off with classic franchises like “Jurassic Park” and “Men in Black” hitting Disney+ and Hulu, and the Jonas Brothers return with the premiere of “Camp Rock 3” mid-month.
He tramples things without intending to. He was created by us. He never permanently goes away. In recent years, metaphorical representations of Donald Trump as the Japanese kaiju Godzilla have become common. Now, a paper published in De Gruyter Brill's The Forum argues that the Showa period Godzilla films (1954–75) can be read as an allegory of Trump's political career from 2016–24.
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday in a divided vote, indicating growing pressure on the central bank to address heightened inflation.
The Fed’s federal open market committee voted 9-3 to maintain rates, with three dissenting members indicating a preference to raise the rate by a quarter-percentage point. It was the first time in a decade that three board members shared dissent over a policy decision.
The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged Wednesday, but the central bank's latest policy decision could still have significant implications for household budgets.
Reconstruction of the long-necked marine reptile Austronaga minuta. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto
Scientists from China, Europe and the U.S., including Dr. Stephan Spiekman, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the University of Hohenheim, have described a fossil of the long-necked marine reptile Austronaga minuta from China. Although this reptile descended from land-dwelling reptiles, it was already well adapted to life in the water around 245 million years ago.
For decades, scientists have largely relied on painstaking trial and error to coax proteins into crystalline forms. Crystallization enables scientists to determine the molecular structures of proteins, which can provide a blueprint for designing drugs, engineering enzymes and understanding disease.
The 2028 Mercedes-Benz GLA-class remains the brand's entry-level SUV, and it'll debut as an EV, with a gas-engine hybrid to follow.
The GLA250+ is the rear-drive EV, the GLA350 is the mightier AWD EV, and the GLA220 (FWD) and GLA250 (AWD) are the hybrid models; power figures TBD.
Mercedes hasn't yet announced pricing for any GLA, but those details will be shared before the SUV reaches dealers in the latter half of 2027.
As goes the Mercedes-Benz CLA, so goes its crossover sibling, the GLA. The baby Benz sedan just emerged from a redesign and is now offered in EV and hybrid form; the GLA is about to follow suit.
