Ford is updating Sync with Waze and a driving assistant

Ford is updating its Sync infotainment software with a few new navigation options. Sygic is a name we haven’t heard in quite awhile, but the GPS company will bring its voice assistant to certain Ford vehicles. If your blue-oval-clad ride has Sync 3 and you’ve got Sygic’s nav app installed on your phone, you’ll be […]

Updating an Icon: We Ride Off-Road in the All-New 2019 Mercedes-Benz G-class

– Schöckl is a scenic, 4741-foot mountain peak that stands proud of the landscape surrounding Graz, Austria, not far from the Magna Steyr assembly plant where the Mercedes-Benz G-class SUV is still largely hand-built under contract for the three-pointed star. That will remain the case after the first all-new G-class in almost 40 years debuts […]

Apple’s macOS ‘root’ bug can be reopened by updating

After news broke of a devastating security flaw in its most recent version of macOS, Apple responded quickly by releasing a patch. Installing Security Update 2017-001 on either macOS 10.13 or 10.13.1 will resolve a problem that allowed anyone to login with admin access simply by typing the username “root” and leaving the password blank, […]

Updating macOS can bring back the nasty “root” security bug

Enlarge (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The serious and surprising root security bug in macOS High Sierra is back for some users, shortly after Apple declared it fixed. Users who had not installed macOS 10.13.1 and thus were running a prior version of the OS when they received the security update, found that installing 10.13.1 resurfaced the […]

Facebook Marketplace Finally Updating Car Search Tool

– Since launching about a year ago, Facebook Marketplace has grown to become a viable alternative to classified-ad stalwart Craigslist for car buying and selling (we’ve detailed the two platforms’ relative strengths and weaknesses in the past). But for those of us who are habitually shopping for cars or trucks, regardless of need or intent […]

Researchers now updating and expanding evolution’s list of 20 amino acids

(credit: Spencer Katz) Serine? So last century. Valine? Over it. Glycine? You’ve got to be kidding me. Those chemicals are part of the 20 amino acids that are typically incorporated into proteins. That means they have a dedicated place in what’s called the genetic code, which translates between the bases of DNA to the amino acids of […]

Google is done updating its Nik desktop photo-editing tools

Bad news if you’re a fan of the Nik Collection of free photo-editing apps: Google has announced it will stop supporting the software suite effective immediately. “We have no plans to update the Collection or add new features over time,” a banner atop the Nik Collection website and help center reads. Want in? Then download […]

California Town Given One Hour to Evacuate Before Dam Spillway Collapses [Updating]

Photo: AP “This [is] NOT A Drill. This [is] NOT A Drill. This [is] NOT A Drill,” the Butte County Sheriff’s Department wrote on Facebook Sunday afternoon, urging residents of Oroville, California to evacuate immediately. “Officials are anticipating a failure of the Auxiliary Spillway at Oroville Dam within the next 60 minutes,” wrote the California […]

The definition of “maximum employment” needs updating

“IT IS fair to say the economy is near maximum employment,” said Janet Yellen, chairman of the Federal Reserve, in recent comments preparing markets for rate rises to come. But “maximum employment”, like pornography, is in the eye of the beholder. American adults, of whom only about 69% have a job, seem less than maximally […]