Does your car need a rear windshield?

You recognize these people who say they’d donate a significant organ to personal a elaborate automotive? Ask them in the event that they’d really feel as . Polestar’s latest trip has made its North American debut on the NY Auto Present and notably lacks a rear windshield. The rationale is rear passengers get higher headroom and a extra snug trip than in different vehicles. Drivers, in the meantime, get a high-res show the place the rear-view mirror was, linked to a reside feed from a rear-mounted digicam. Given how usually folks’s heads or baggage obscure the backward view, it’s a commerce I’m readily ready to simply accept.

— Dan Cooper

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Twenty years of the client being the product.

Gmail wasn’t the primary service that turned its customers into the product, . In any case, whereas Fb and its kin have been perpetually slammed for privateness points, who actually will get mad at Gmail? Our anniversary bundle has a deep dive into the final 20 years of Google’s flagship mail product.

… Oh, and talking of Google and privateness.

The search large has settled a current class-action lawsuit regarding Chrome’s monitoring of Incognito customers. . (All the time a very good signal when an organization pledges to cease doing one thing it’s been informed off for doing, however just for a brief interval.)

They may name it the Waffle Tough-Home.

For the uninitiated, Waffle Home is a waffle-centric chain of 24/7 American diners with a status for random outbursts of violence. It’s apparently so well-known that Tekken gamers have been . Sadly, it in all probability gained’t occur as a result of Waffle Home stands accused of underpaying its staff and, given the above context, exposing them to an unsafe working setting.