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  • Rare Iranian police videos protesting low wages spark public reaction

    Rare Iranian police videos protesting low wages spark public reaction

    The Grand Bazaar, one of Tehran’s most important commercial and historic areas, is facing a crisis that has developed below ground rather than at street level.

    Iranian media reported the discovery of excavations beneath the Azadi (Dastmalchi),…

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  • Dec. 27th: A 25-year-old Quirks & Quarks time capsule with science predictions for 2025

    Dec. 27th: A 25-year-old Quirks & Quarks time capsule with science predictions for 2025

    Quirks and Quarks

    Twenty-five years ago, Quirks & Quarks celebrated its anniversary by travelling forward in time — to 2025 — to find out how science had changed in the years since.

    Encore presentation of Quirks & Quarks’ 25th Annivesary Show…

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  • Top Holiday Deals on Essential Photography Accessories

    Top Holiday Deals on Essential Photography Accessories

    Accessories may not get the same attention as cameras and lenses, but they are often the tools that keep photographers shooting smoothly. From memory card protection to power solutions and lens accessories, small upgrades can make a…

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  • Surviving crises through humor in the award-winning book ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible’

    Surviving crises through humor in the award-winning book ‘The True True Story of Raja the Gullible’

    SOMOS CONNECTICUT is an initiative from Connecticut Public, the state’s local NPR and PBS station, to elevate Latino stories and expand programming that uplifts and informs our Latino communities. Visit CTPublic.org/latino for more stories…

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  • NHTSA investigating Tesla Model 3 door releases following complaints

    NHTSA investigating Tesla Model 3 door releases following complaints

    Door handles on a Tesla Model 3 in front of the company’s store in Colma, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. Tesla Inc. is working on a redesign of its door handles, which have drawn scrutiny over safety incidents that trapped passengers insid

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a defect investigation into Tesla’s Model 3 vehicles over the car door’s release and concerns the controls may not be easy to find in an emergency – the same concerns of Piedmont families whose college-age children died in a Cybertruck with the same type of door release.

    Tesla Model 3 door handles

    NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation opened the investigation on Dec. 23 after getting a complaint from a man in Georgia that called the mechanical door release “hidden, unlabeled, and not intuitive to locate during an emergency,” according to the filing. The filing references one incident involving a crash or fire, with one injury.

    The agency said the probe covers nearly 180,000 model year 2022 Tesla Model 3 vehicles, where the chief complaint is that the “emergency egress controls are not readily accessible and clearly identifiable.”

    Tesla Model Y door handles

    This investigation follows another NHTSA inquiry stemming from nine examples of Tesla’s 2021 Model Y cars, where the agency reported parents not being able to get their children out of the back of the car, and they ended up breaking a window to get back in.

    Based on NHTSA’s preliminary review, this condition appears to occur when the electronic door locks receive insufficient voltage from the vehicle.

    Tesla response

    Tesla did not immediately respond Friday to the latest NHTSA investigation.

    But in September, Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen told Bloomberg’s Hot Pursuit! podcast that the company was looking to combine the manual and electronic release mechanisms in the doors, which are now separate, in order to make escaping the car easier and quicker in a “panic situation.”

    “The idea of combining the electronic one and the manual one together into one button, I think, makes a lot of sense,” he said on the podcast. “That’s something that we’re working on.”

    A closer look at Tesla Cybertruck’s design following death of 3 Piedmont students

    Nearly a month after three college students died in a fiery Tesla Cybertruck crash in Piedmont, many questions still remain. We took a closer look at the car’s design and talked to experts about the car’s unique features.

    Piedmont deaths in Cybertruck

    (L-R) Soren Dixon, Krysta Tsukahara and Jack Nelson, all 2023 Piedmont High graduates, were killed in a crash in Piedmont on Nov. 27, 2024. Photo: City of Piedmont 

    The door handles are the subject of lawsuits filed by the parents of two college students who died in a fiery crash while they were passengers in a Tesla Cybertruck in Piedmont last year, just before Thanksgiving. The lawsuits allege the tricky design of the Cybertruck’s doors left the college students to die inside.

    The families of Krysta Tsukahara, 19, and Jack Nelson, 20, have each filed separate lawsuits against Tesla.

    Shortly after that fatal crash, KTVU took a closer look at the Cybertruck design, especially the issues with its electric doors and hard-to-break windows, exposing some of the same issues that the federal government is now investigating.

    In a Cybertruck, the manual release for the door locks is a latch on the door in the front of the car by the window switches, and under a plastic well in the back “map pocket” of the car.

    “It was clear to us that the door failed to operate because it lost power,” Roger Dreyer, the attorney for Krista’s parents, Noelle and Carl Tsukahara, said in a previous interview in October.

    Nelson also survived the initial impact of the crash, his parents’ attorney, Matthew Davis, said at the time.

    “His injuries were relatively minor,” Davis said. “What killed him was that he couldn’t get out of the car.”

    A Bloomberg investigation this month found that 15 people have died over the last decade after being unable to open Tesla vehicle doors following a crash.

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  • BP1/2 100 Count Premium Plugs 1/2 or .5 Plug for use in PDR

    The Box Man






    Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2025


    The design of these gives me much more confidence in them staying in place compared to flat top style body plugs. I ran out of the other style for a project and when these arrived, swapped out the others to be confident nothing will come loose. Application was the floorboard of a project vehicle for filling in unneeded holes.

    Customer






    Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2024


    Fit perfect , looks as if it was done professionally. Pleased

    Francis Préville






    Reviewed in Canada on December 30, 2024


    Répond à mes besoin et est exactement ce qui est décrit

    Suzanne Dallaire






    Reviewed in Canada on November 1, 2024


    C’est parfait pour les antirouilles

    Guy F.






    Reviewed in Canada on January 7, 2024


    Fit great and removable. Reusable too.

    VALMOND GALLANT






    Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2023


    I like that it’s plastic, because I use it for rust proofing liquid,s that can detariate rubber plugs

    Gus






    Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2023


    Worked great.

    Bricoleur






    Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2023


    good

    Stephane Lebreux






    Reviewed in Canada on October 26, 2023


    Un poile cher mais la qualité du plastique est très bonne.

    denis






    Reviewed in Canada on December 8, 2022


    Great

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  • You may soon be able to change your Gmail address

    You may soon be able to change your Gmail address

    A Google support page in Hindi says the ability to change your Gmail address is on the way. The feature would allow you to replace your current @gmail.com address with another. Your old address would remain active as an alias on the account, and…

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  • Trabuco Canyon Post Office Resumes Operations – California newsroom

    Trabuco Canyon, CA– Effective December 26, the Trabuco Canyon Post Office located at 30595 Trabuco Canyon Rd, Trabuco Canyon, CA 92678 is resuming all operations.

    The Post Office was temporarily closed due to inclement weather and limited road access.

    The Trabuco Canyon Post Office is open at its regular retail schedule Monday- Friday 9:00 a.m. -1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

    The safety of our customers and employees is our top priority. We appreciate our customers’ patience during this temporary closure.

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  • The Future of Everything’s Best of 2025 – The Wall Street Journal

    1. The Future of Everything’s Best of 2025  The Wall Street Journal
    2. From robot ‘girlfriends to AI lipstick’: The weirdest tech of 2025  Euronews.com
    3. 5 Innovative Technologies Of 2025 That Can Deliver Real-World Impact  Forbes
    4. Time Magazine Reveals the Top 5 Inventions of 2025: Robots and AI Transforming Daily Life  عالم تسعة
    5. 2025 emerges as landmark year for innovation from insect-tracking cameras to water-from-air coffee makers  samaa tv

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  • Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red

    Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red

    JABO, Sokoto — Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house with his wife to see the sky…

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