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Toyota’s new EVs catch on as registrations jump 225% in April

Toyota’s new EVs catch on as registrations jump 225% in April

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With three fully electric SUVs now on sale, Toyota’s EV registrations surged 225% in April. Toyota EV registrations rise 225% in April to over 3,500 Toyota is finally selling electric vehicles. With the heavily updated bZ, which is still sold as the bZ4X overseas, plus the new C-HR and bZ Woodland, Toyota offers an electric SUV for nearly everyone. In the first quarter, the Toyota bZ outsold the Hyundai IONIQ 5, Chevy Equinox EV, and Ford Mustang Mach-E, ranking as the third-most-popular EV in the US behind the Tesla Model Y and Model 3. Toyota outsold Ford with just the bZ alone, selling over 10,000 units in Q1. Now, the company has three EVs on sale, and so far it’s paying off. Advertisement – scroll for more content According to the latest data from S&P Global Mobility (via Automotive News), Toyota’s EV registrations jumped another 225% in April to 3,524. Toyota sold more EVs during the month than BMW, Kia, Honda, Nissan, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, and Volvo. From left to right: Toyota C-HR, bZ, and …

Your iPhone is getting enhanced Bluetooth tracking with iOS 27 – but there’s a catch

Your iPhone is getting enhanced Bluetooth tracking with iOS 27 – but there’s a catch

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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways iPhones will support Bluetooth Channel Sounding in iOS 27. Channel Sounding promises secure, fine-ranging Find My device capabilities. Although exciting, adoption will be slow — per usual. This year’s WWDC is over, and now it’s time for developers to fine-tune their apps and for early adopters to test them ahead of this fall’s public launch of iOS 27. AI dominated the conversation, serving as the foundation for upgrades to Siri, Search, Photos, and more, while some upgrades didn’t make it to the keynote. Also: Everything announced at Apple WWDC 2026 – including Siri, iOS 27 dev beta, and more One less-discussed iOS 27 feature is support for Channel Sounding, an innovative Bluetooth feature first announced in Bluetooth 6.0, which was released in the fall of 2024. Channel Sounding enables a Bluetooth-enabled device to perform precise localization, enhancing its spatial awareness of distance and direction. Thanks to Bluetooth’s ubiquity and Apple’s support for Channel Sounding, some of the world’s most popular smartphones will support …

Woman used social media to catch man who killed her mom

Woman used social media to catch man who killed her mom

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Kiany DeJesus was just 11 years old when her mother was killed by her ex-boyfriend in Greenbelt, Maryland. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In court Tuesday, the daughter watched him get sentenced to decades in prison for the 2014 killing — after she used social media to track him down in Mexico, where he had started a new family. Emilia Ignacio was killed in April 2014 at the hands of Juan Miguel Roman-Balderas. Her daughter delivered a tearful victim impact statement describing all that she lost. “I knew that if I didn’t get it out, I would probably regret it, so I’m glad that I did this and I’m glad that he got to hear it from my words too. It makes me really happy to finally get to close all of this,” she told News4. Emilia Ignacio.Courtesy of family via NBC Washington Prosecutors say Roman-Balderas took Ignacio to Red Lobster for dinner, stabbed her 27 times and took off to Mexico using a one-way …

BYD outsold Ford, and now it thinks it can catch Toyota for No. 1

BYD outsold Ford, and now it thinks it can catch Toyota for No. 1

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BYD is already the world’s largest EV maker, but the company’s CEO is confident it will become the world’s leading global automaker within the next five years. Can BYD become the world’s largest automaker? After it stopped making cars powered solely by internal combustion engines (ICE) in 2022 to focus on battery electric (EV) and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles, BYD’s big bet has paid off so far. With over 4.6 million new energy vehicles (NEVs) sold last year, which includes EVs and PHEVs, BYD surpassed Ford for the first time, ranking as the sixth largest global automaker. According to BYD’s CEO, Wang Chuanfu, the Chinese EV giant is just getting started with new battery and charging tech set to drive growth over the next few years. Advertisement – scroll for more content While addressing shareholders at the company’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Wang said that “BYD will truly become the No. 1 automaker globally in terms of ​scale in five years.” BYD confirmed Wang’s comments to Reuters, but didn’t offer any additional context. Ford and …

To Catch a Cult Predator: Black Women Beware

To Catch a Cult Predator: Black Women Beware

Published by Sam Flores

In the beginning of the grooming process, there is sweetness and light. The groomer wants you, acts like you’re the only one in the room, showers you with adulation, folds you into the embrace of a gushingly warm 24/7 community and immerses you in the seductive quicksand of their budding nation/family/tribe, anchored by the benevolence of a shiny new “god” who becomes mother, father, lover, sister, brother, confessor, judge, jury and executioner all rolled up into one. The cult honeymoon phase is like the waystation before the Sunken Place. Lulling and dreamy as a Lorelei song. Lately, it’s been nearly impossible to watch any streaming platform without stumbling onto a new saga about a heretofore obscure cult. One of the most recent exposés spotlights the downward spiral of the Black-led “Carbon Nation” group, which joins a long line of religious regimes powered by misogynoir (or anti-Black misogyny) and toxic masculinity. As chronicled in a new Hulu series called “The Cult of Natureboy,” Carbon Nation was an Afrocentric back-to-the-land group founded in 2016 by a YouTube …

Norse Atlantic Airways Offers Dirt-Cheap Tickets. There’s a Catch

Norse Atlantic Airways Offers Dirt-Cheap Tickets. There’s a Catch

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On March 31, I received an email from Norse Atlantic Airways. The $940 flights for my upcoming round trip to Rome had been canceled, it said, and I had 14 days to request a refund. At first, I didn’t panic. That began to change when the company’s refund request page wouldn’t load on two browsers across three devices. After Norse didn’t respond to several emails, I looked for a phone number. There wasn’t one. On Reddit, I found dozens of posts about Norse’s allegedly haphazard customer service. The same day, I filed a public records request with the Federal Trade Commission, which I hoped would give me a better idea of how common this experience was. I eventually received around 75 detailed complaints from people who had bought or tried to buy tickets from the airline. Many described a customer service operation in which the inability to get in touch with a human created a vacuum that scammers appeared happy to step into. Of the 41 complaints that reported a dollar figure, 21 claimed they …

Black founders raise highest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a catch

Black founders raise highest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a catch

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According to Crunchbase’s latest data around black founders, $643 million has poured into US Black-founded startups since the beginning of the year — an amount not seen since 2022, when Black founders raised $653 million in funding. For context, Black founders raised $942 million of all venture dollars last year (that’s 0.32% of the $290 billion total, per Crunchbase estimates). That means in just a few months, Black founders have already raised almost 70% of what was they raised in all of last year.  Driving this funding are just a handful of deals (34, to be exact, per Crunchbase), most notably the $350 million Series E raised by AI hardware company SambaNova, followed by the sports prediction startup Noviq (which raised a $75 million Series B) and the YC-backed AI insurance platform Harper (which raised $47 million). Still, though the $643 million raised so far is a record sum compared to the past few years, Crunchbase makes note that it’s still quite small compared to the $252 billion U.S startups have raised overall in the …

Victorian home with riverside views hits market for £40k – but there’s a huge catch

Victorian home with riverside views hits market for £40k – but there’s a huge catch

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A crumbling Victorian riverside house with views of the River Severn has gone up for auction with a guide price of just £40,000.The three-bedroom Worcester property has been empty for more than a decade and needs major renovation, with every room damaged and part of the roof collapsed.Despite the bargain price, buyers are expected to face huge restoration costs to bring the late 1800s terrace back to life. Source link

Chris Hansen has cryptic response to Robert Pattinson playing him in To Catch A Predator movie

Chris Hansen has cryptic response to Robert Pattinson playing him in To Catch A Predator movie

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Chris Hansen, the former host of NBC Dateline’s true-crime series To Catch a Predator, has reacted to Robert Pattinson’s portrayal of him in A24’s new eerie drama Primetime. Set to arrive in theaters this September, the forthcoming movie tracks the origins of the hit investigative news program, which ran from 2004 to 2007 and followed Hansen’s operations to catch adult men arriving at a sting house to have sex with minors. Primetime also features Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher and Bokeem Woodbine, and marks director Lance Oppenheim’s narrative feature film debut. The film’s first trailer was released earlier this week, and teases Pattinson’s strikingly transformed voice as Hansen. “At the end of the day, man must be held accountable for the decisions that he makes. Do you agree?” he says in a voice-over. “Do you watch television? Well, there’s something …

Caught Flat-Footed, a City Races to Catch Up With Ebola

Caught Flat-Footed, a City Races to Catch Up With Ebola

Published by Sam Flores

Since an Ebola outbreak was declared in Bunia, a bustling city in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, global alarms have gone off. Borders have slammed shut, flights have been diverted as far as the United States and the Congolese World Cup team is currently in quarantine in Belgium. Yet here in Bunia, at the heart of the crisis, the usual signs of an organized response — large medical tents, medics in sealed white suits and goggles and patients lying in strict isolation — are not yet in place. Instead, the incipient aid effort is only getting set up. Outside Bunia’s main hospital on Saturday, workers hammered nails and pushed up tents a few yards from the main door, in a frantic scramble to erect a handful of isolation wards where patients can be triaged, isolated and treated. “The virus is far ahead of us,” said Ahmed Mahat, a manager with International Medical Corps, which is building two of the isolation wards. “And it’s spreading fast.” The world is playing catch-up in Congo. Caught flat-footed by …