Walk around a big city like New York or Amsterdam long enough and you’re bound to notice something: tiny four-wheeled cargo carriers zipping down bike lanes.
These battery-assisted vehicles, often called e-quads, are distinct from cargo e-bikes, which tend to be geared toward households. E-quads are larger and sport enclosed cargo holds, making them a darling of delivery companies, including Amazon and UPS, allowing them to sidestep congestion that bogs down regular box trucks.
Now, Honda is offering its own take on vehicle type, the Fastport eQuad.
The eQuad comes in two sizes built on at the same basic platform, small and large. Both are smaller than the smallest Mini Cooper, but can carry between 320 to 650 pounds. They have pedals, and their top speed is limited to 12 mph (20 kph), both requirements to keep them bike lane legal.
To keep the eQuad trucking, Honda is using its Mobile Power Pack batteries. The 22-pound batteries can be swapped for a fresh pack much like Gogoro or Zeno. By grabbing the build-in handle, drivers (or riders?) can drop them into a caddy located just behind and below cockpit.
Inside the cockpit, drivers have the usual bike seat, pedals, and windscreen. A display helps the driver stay on route. Based on the number of mentions in the press release, Honda really wants this to be considered a software-defined vehicle, which it says will over “continues value and improvements over the vehicles lifetime,” though it doesn’t specify what those are.
U.S.-bound eQuads will be built at the Honda Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio. For the craftspeople who work there, the trundling eQuad will be a very different assignment. Previously, they were best known for hand assembling the second-generation Acura NSX, a 500-plus horsepower supercar capable of 191 mph.
Meta seems to have finally taken a small step to address the epidemic of over-sharing happening in the public feed of its AI app. The company has added a short disclaimer that warns users to “avoid sharing personal or sensitive information” to the “post to feed” button in the Meta AI app.
The change was first by Business Insider, which the app “one of the most depressing places online” due to the sheer volume of intimate, embarrassing and sometimes personally-identifying information Meta AI users were — apparently unwittingly — publicly sharing to the app’s built-in “discover” feed. Though Meta AI doesn’t share users’ chat histories by default, it seems that many of the app’s users were choosing to “share” their interactions without realizing it would make the voice and text chats visible to the public.
Last week, I found posts where users asked for advice on “improving bowel movements” and inquiring whether a relative could be liable for their employer’s unpaid taxes. Another user “keep this private” to his public posts in an apparent attempt to hide his embarrassing chats after the fact. These types of strange public interactions have been happening since the Meta AI app rolled out in April, but received renewed attention last week after social media users began posting about all of the weird conversations that were visible in the app’s “discover” feed.
Privacy experts criticized Meta, noting that most other mainstream AI chatbots don’t include a social, publicly-visible feed. “If a user’s expectations about how a tool functions don’t match reality, you’ve got yourself a huge user experience and security problem,” Rachel Tobac, a security expert who has previously partnered with Meta, last week. “Humans have built a schema around AI chat bots and do not expect their AI chat bot prompts to show up in a social media style Discover feed — it’s not how other tools function.” The Mozilla Foundation Meta to change the app’s design. “Meta AI’s app doesn’t make it obvious that what you share goes fully public,” it wrote in last week There’s no clear iconography, no familiar cues about sharing like in other Meta apps.”
Now, the company has apparently taken note. With the change, choosing to share a Meta AI interaction publicly prompts the warning seen above, though it only seems to appear on the first share. “Prompts you post are public and visible to everyone,” it states. “Your prompts may be suggested by Meta on other Meta apps. Avoid sharing personal or sensitive information.”
As Business Insider notes, the app’s public feed also seems to no longer feature text exchanges other users have shared with the app, only AI-generated images and video. It’s unclear if that’s a permanent change, or the result of the recent negative attention the app’s received. We’ve reached out to Meta for more information and will update if we hear back.
In the meantime, if you’ve found yourself the victim of unintended public posts in the app, you can remove them by tapping on your profile in the top right corner of the app, heading to Data & Privacy -> Manage your information -> Make all public prompts visible only to you and selecting “apply to all.”
The Galaxy Watch 4’s days are numbered, as Samsung has just signaled the end of support for the 2021 release.
Samsung’s software commitment for smartwatches is far from what it provides for smartphones. After 3 years, the company’s support is all but complete. With that in mind, we recently pointed out that the Galaxy Watch 4 series would either be seeing its final major Wear OS update this year, or perhaps not see it at all.
In a footnote regarding the beta’s release, Samsung says that the One UI 8 Watch release requires “Galaxy Watch 5 or newer.” While it doesn’t officially confirm that Watch 4 owners won’t get the One UI 8 Watch release (based on Wear OS 6), it certainly seems that way. It’s not a shock, as we realized recently that the new update may not arrive in time for Samsung’s 3-year cutoff date in August of this year.
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Users based in Korea and the United States with Galaxy Watch models (Galaxy Watch5 series or later released Galaxy Watch series) are eligible to join the beta program.
Does this mean that Samsung is abandoning the Watch 4 series altogether?
Not necessarily.
Security updates could certainly continue, but that doesn’t seem especially likely. Notably, the Galaxy Watch 3, released in 2020, hasn’t been updated since late-2023. If that pattern remains true for Galaxy Watch 4, which was last updated in May 2025, then these smartwatches are already running on borrowed time. That is, if Samsung’s official position on Galaxy Watch updates is still limited to three years. The 2021 statement regarding that timeline was technically for Tizen-based products, and it was an “at least” promise, leaving the door wide open to further updates.
The estimated Powerball jackpot is $90 million. The lump sum payment before taxes would be about $40.7 million.
The Double Play is a feature that gives players in select locations another chance to match their Powerball numbers in a separate drawing. The Double Play drawing is held following the regular drawing and has a top cash prize of $10 million.
Powerball is held in 45 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Double Play add-on feature is available for purchase in 13 lottery jurisdictions, including Pennsylvania and Michigan.
A $2 ticket gives you a one in 292.2 million chance at joining the hall of Powerball jackpot champions.
The drawings are held at 10:59 p.m. Eastern, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The deadline to purchase tickets is 9:45 p.m.
OpenAI and Microsoft may be reaching an inflection point in their relationship, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
The report, citing anonymous sources, says OpenAI executives have considered publicly accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior throughout their partnership. OpenAI executives also mulled whether to seek a federal regulatory review of their contract with Microsoft.
OpenAI is trying to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its intellectual property and computing resources, but the startup also needs the tech giant’s approval to complete its for-profit conversion.
The two companies are in a standoff over OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup, Windsurf. OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to get Windsurf’s intellectual property — which could enhance the cloud provider’s own AI coding tool, GitHub Copilot — according to the report.
While Microsoft was once a major accelerant to OpenAI’s growth, the companies’ relationship has grown tense. In recent months, OpenAI has reportedly tried to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for cloud services.
Obsidian Entertainment has been an incredibly versatile game developer over the years, even venturing outside its RPG comfort zone with the original Grounded. As a survival adventure game where you’re shrunken down and explore the hidden, vast world of a backyard, it became a well-loved hit, and it evolved even further throughout its early access period. But now, the developers have big plans for Grounded 2, which has new features and a larger scope that was too big for the original to contain.
Shortly after the reveal during the recent Xbox Games Showcase alongside Summer Game Fest 2025, I got to play the opening of the sequel, which sees the familiar crew of teenage scavengers, now a little older and wiser, shrunken down once again to survive a new small world hidden in the town’s park. Even as a new iteration of a familiar premise, which is essentially the survival gameplay of Rust by way of the whimsical Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Grounded 2 is already showing some promise as the bigger and better sequel.
Grounded 2, which will also launch in early access, already feels like a bigger game, even from the confines of the tutorial zone. For starters, there’s a larger focus on building up the experience of the four teenage scavengers and how they fit into the larger story. It’s not quite Yellowjackets when it comes to teen drama, but the crew exploring the small world of the park have colorful language and quips at their disposal. There’s a generally stronger sense of personality in Grounded 2, which is bolstered by some more character-driven writing and opportunities to take in the lore of the company responsible for the experiments in town.
The experience of playing Grounded 2, much like the original and other survival games, is all about gathering resources from the land and acquiring knowledge to stay alive. Along with collecting materials to build weapons, armor and structures, you’ll also have to keep your characters fed and hydrated. You’ll also need to defend yourself against the various critters roaming about, such as the ants and the spiders. Also returning is the arachnophobia accessibility option to make them appear less disturbing for players. Thankfully, you can now use a dodge to avoid attacks – a first for the series – and combat is generally more responsive and fair.
Grounded 2 feels like a more well-rounded and refined take on the original, which is a solid game in its own right. One great addition that I got to play with was the new ant mount, or buggy, as the devs call it. You’ll be able to ride on top of a friendly ant that can attack enemies, move faster throughout the world, and even collect material far more quickly than the human scavengers.
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Shortly after my hands-on experience, I sat in on a roundtable discussion with game director Chris Parker and producer Miles Winzeler from Obsidian Entertainment, who explained how early access feedback from players helped bring the game to its current state. In order to fully implement their vision for Grounded, though, they would need a new game.
“Almost everything in Grounded 2 comes from feedback from the community that we had gathered from the first game,” Parker said. “We had to look at what was important to work on with the sequel. People always want more stuff to do. They wanted to have the buggies, which was a huge one and our number one most requested feature from out the gate on Grounded 1. We then had to work on new creatures, armor and weapons, among other things. How can we further develop our progression systems? So those were all the things that we took on from the beginning for Grounded 2.”
Grounded 2 felt like a more fully realized game, which leveraged years of work on the original. Along with a more developed story campaign focusing on helping the kids survive the portion of Brookhollow Park they have to explore – which is more than three times the size of the original’s map – The game will also launch with creative mode, which was a popular feature that let players focus on exploring and building up structures at their leisure.
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“We’re always trying to challenge scale and how we can create a sense of awe and mystery by having something that’s supposed to be normal but is now this gigantic thing,” Parker said. “That’s always the fun when making this game.”
I really took to the added scope of Grounded 2. Not just as a shrunken person trapped on the grounds of a park but also for the new features and ideas at work for the sequel. With the game coming out in July for early access, Grounded 2 has already got me invested in making a return visit to this small world with big ambitions.
Grounded 2 will release in early access on July 29 for Xbox Series X|S and PC, and will be available for Game Pass subscribers.
As previewed in March, the Google Play Store is adding a “Slide to buy” gesture to confirm Android app, book, movie, and TV show payments.
Previously, the Google Play payment sheet had a blue “1-tap buy” button at the very bottom. This has now been replaced by a “Slide to buy” pill that’s slightly taller than before.
The circular handle features two arrows to guide users, while there’s an animation prompting you the first time it’s available and an additional bounce.
Officially, Google “now requires you to slide instead of a tap on the buy button” to “prevent accidental purchases.” Purchasing already required two button taps at opposite ends of the screen, but it’s now a tap and a slide to add a little bit more friction that ultimately benefits the user.
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We’re seeing this widely rolled out with version 46.5.19-31 of the Play Store. Slide to buy is live in all instances of the “Google Play” sheet, including in the Google TV app.
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The issue pertains to the 2024-2025 Ninja ZX-6R motorcycles that were produced from April 3, 2023 to April 28. Specifically, the MY24 NINJA ZX-6R 40th Anniversary Edition ABS, MY24 -25 Ninja ZX-6R ABS/KRT Edition ABS and the Ninja ZX-6R/KRT Edition are being recalled.
The 17,792 affected motorcycles are at risk of losing engine power during operation due to seizure of a metal crankshaft bushing, the NHTSA said.
“The bolts holding the crankshaft together in the crank case were over-torqued…” the statement reads. “… as a result the #5 metal crankshaft bushing can be damaged by improper oil clearance between the crankshaft and the bushing.”
Risk for losing engine power during operation can result in a crash, fire, death or injury, the administration explained.
Owners are urged to not ride their motorcycles until repairs are completed. A remedy is under development.
Food distribution giant United Natural Foods (UNFI) said it is making “significant progress” in recovering from a cyberattack that occurred almost two weeks ago, as grocery stores across North America reliant on the distributor continue to report food shortages.
UNFI said in an update on Sunday that it was restoring its electronic ordering systems, which its customers use to place orders for their grocery stores and supermarkets.
The company, which provides more than 30,000 stores across the United States and Canada with fresh produce and other products, was hit by a cyberattack on June 5, which the company disclosed several days later.
One of the largest grocers affected is Whole Foods, which relies on UNFI as its “primary distributor.” Several Whole Foods stores, including one visited by TechCrunch last week and others in the New York area, are experiencing shelf shortages amid the UNFI outages. One employee at a Whole Foods in California told TechCrunch described supply issues at their store, saying they had not seen some products for days.
Whole Foods previously told TechCrunch that it was working to restore its shelves “as quickly as possible,” but did not say when shipments would return to normal.
People working at local grocery stores and big-chain supermarkets alike have told TechCrunch that they continue to experience disruption of varying degrees. Some said that other distributors are providing some supplies, while others are still reporting issues with ordering products from UNFI.
UNFI has not yet provided a timeline for recovery.
Do you know more about the cyberattack at UNFI? Are you a corporate customer affected by the disruption? You can securely contact this reporter via encrypted message at zackwhittaker.1337 on Signal
