TECHNOLOGY

Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

Be careful what you say while you are driving your vehicle, because you are being watched.  Today, we live in a giant surveillance prison in which virtually everything that we do is being monitored, tracked, recorded and analyzed.  In this day and age, you should just assume that nothing that you do is ever private.  When I was much younger, if I really wanted to have a private conversation with someone I thought (more…)

It could be just us, but Honda's new electric vehicle, called "Saloon," unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, seems to mirror the designs of the Lamborghini Countach from the mid-1980s. 

With that aside, Honda's new EV will feature "new advancements in design, automated driving, connected technologies, performance, and battery efficiency," according to a Honda press release. 

The Japanese company expects the Saloon to be released in North America in 2026. Autoblog Autocar quoted the designer Toshinobu Minami as saying the new EV would keep "90% of this appearance," including gullwing doors, for the production model. (more…)

US mortgage lender loanDepot confirmed in an 8k filing on Monday that it is the latest victim of a cyberattack that has brought critical systems offline. 

California-based loanDepot, which is the second-largest non-bank mortgage lender behind Rocket Mortgage, wrote in a filing that it "recently identified a cybersecurity incident affecting certain of the Company's systems." 

Shares of loanDepot are down 5% in premarket trading in New York. 

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