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If you already have a perfectly functional cable that supports Android Auto, upgrading to a 5Gbps cable isn’t going to make Spotify sound like you rebuilt the stereo. Yes, a broken or poorly built cable can lead to dropouts, disconnects and other frustrations, but additional bandwidth won’t improve an intact digital audio stream.

The leak contains beta builds and finished games from Valve and third-party developers.

They’re pretty great out of the box, but there are tweaks you might want to know about.

Cars in European cities are smaller than ever. But as Europe’s appetite for microcars has grown, the cute Italian ‘yoghurt pots’ have largely given way to small Chinese EVs. Even Smart, the the iconic ultracompact car brand, has moved manufacturing to China.

Nintendo’s worst-ever console was awkward to use and didn’t even sell a million units.

YouTube should show you more of what you like. If it doesn’t, you can nudge it back to relevancy.

Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself.

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4K is a catchier marketing term than 2160p, but the resolution also has this name for a reason.

Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations. Industrial heavyweight Caterpillar has spent decades dealing with a version of that problem in the physical world, and now it’s using its experience to deploy AI.