Day: November 6, 2019

On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a case with the agency. It alleges that the company lied to customers about its “unlimited” data plans because it throttled their data if they ever went over a certain threshold. from https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/5/20949850/att-fine-unlimited-data-plan-fake-throttlinghttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/65629375/att1_2040.0.0.jpg

Sports car enthusiasts will sometimes balk at electric cars due to their usual lack of manual transmissions (there’s no need for a gearbox, after all), but Ford has hinted that stick shifting might not be completely dead. from https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/05/ford-mustang-lithium-project-ev/https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?quality=85&image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fimages%2Fdims%3Fcrop%3D1600%252C1067%252C0%252C0%26quality%3D85%26format%3Djpg%26resize%3D1600%252C1067%26image_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fs.yimg.com%252Fos%252Fcreatr-uploaded-images%252F2019-11%252F095d14b0-0020-11ea-9bf9-fc2dcf65d7f4%26client%3Da1acac3e1b3290917d92%26signature%3Dd3da70a2aa40c1b3eb1083d820685927ead09c7c&client=amp-blogside-v2&signature=db5a1d2c198a1343f21fbfc16a804f17830d65fe

The pillars on either side of your car windshield have become thicker over time, in order to stop your car from collapsing in case it rolls over, but the wider pillars have created pretty significant blind spots. Alaina Gassler, 14, came up with a possible fix for that (via Gizmodo). from https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/5/20949952/car-blind-spots-pillar-windshield-fix-webcam-kia-hyundai-gasslerhttp://img.youtube.com/vi/HxlNkIwqGb4/0.jpg