Month: January 2025

How One Vietnamese Community Depends on YouTube for News

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This article is copublished with The Oaklandside, a nonprofit newsroom that amplifies community voices, shares trustworthy information, and investigates systems, not symptoms for Oakland, Calif. Read on our collaborator’s site. Sonia Ohlala’s YouTube videos usually begin with a friendly greeting in Vietnamese. From the grandpas and grandmas out there, ông and bà, to the uncles … Read more

New ship, new year: SpaceX to deploy model Starlink satellites on next Starship launch

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SpaceX is significantly upping the ante of its Starship test flight program, with the next rocket launch expected to demonstrate payload deployment for the first time.  The payload in question will be 10 Starlink “simulators” that will be similar in size and weight to the next-gen satellites SpaceX plans to use Starship to deploy in … Read more

Dara Khosrowshahi resigns from self-driving truck startup Aurora’s board

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Dara Khosrowshahi is resigning from the board of autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation, citing a desire to focus on his ongoing responsibilities as CEO of Uber and reduce external board commitments, according to a Friday regulatory filing. Khosrowshahi’s resignation was effective as of Tuesday. Aurora says Khosrowshahi’s decision to leave the board was not … Read more

Inside the wild fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that imploded over the holidays

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Friday, December 27, was supposed to be the start of a relaxing holiday weekend. But it was chaos for thousands of small business owners who use Bench, an accounting and tax startup based in Canada that raised $113 million from investors like Bain Capital Ventures and Shopify. That morning, they found themselves unable to log … Read more

Scout Motors EVs will have satellite connectivity

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Volkswagen offshoot Scout Motors is getting a jump-start on CES 2025 next week, with some good news for people who plan to take the company’s EVs way, way outdoors: The forthcoming Traveler SUV and Terra pickup will have a built-in satellite connection. Scout Motors isn’t saying where it’s sourcing the satellite linkup hardware from, or … Read more

Adaptive Lighting – An Example of HACS

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In the previous post of this focus, we replaced Philips Hue automation with the one from Home Assistant. One significant gap we noticed was that Home Assistant doesn’t automatically adjust the brightness according to the time of the day, a feature Philips Hue offers. In this post, we are going to address this gap. The … Read more