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Nissan is ending engine development, except for US-bound vehicles

A composite photo showing a V6 under the hood of a Nissan truck

Enlarge / America loves pickup trucks too much to give up burning gasoline, Nissan thinks. (credit: Nissan)

Nissan is the latest automaker to pull the plug on its internal combustion engine development. Well, mostly.

According to Nikkei Asia, the Japanese automaker has looked at the likely next set of European emissions rules and has decided it would be too expensive to design a new generation of engines that comply. Nissan is also not planning on any new internal combustion engines for Japan or China, although it will apparently keep refining existing engines and continue to work on hybrid powertrains.

However, this new policy isn’t a global one—it doesn’t apply to the US. That’s because here, the automaker expects continuing demand for internal combustion engines, particularly in pickup trucks.

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Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU

Meta may be forced to shutter Facebook, Instagram in EU

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Meta says it may have to abandon the European Union.

The note was buried in the company’s annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Meta said that if officials on both sides of the Atlantic can’t reach an agreement on data transfers and warehousing, the company may have to pull its Facebook and Instagram platforms from Europe.

“If a new transatlantic data transfer framework is not adopted… we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe,” Meta said in its 10-K filing.

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How to Use Optional Chaining in JavaScript

Optional chaining is a safe and concise way to perform access checks for nested object properties. The optional chaining operator ?. takes the reference to its left and checks if it is undefined or null. If the reference is either of these nullish values, the checks will stop and return
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Python Parse JSON – How to Read a JSON File

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a popular way to structure data. It’s used to exchange information between a web application and the server. But how do you read a JSON file in Python? In this article, I will show you how to use the json.loads() and json.load() methods to
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CSS Button Style – Hover, Color, and Background

In this article you’ll see how to style a button using CSS. My goal here is mostly to showcase how different CSS rules and styles are applied and used. We won’t see much design inspiration nor will we discuss ideas for styling. Instead, this will be more of an overview
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For Loop in Java + forEach Loop Syntax Example

A loop in programming is a sequence of instructions that run continuously until a certain condition is met. In this article, we will learn about the for and forEach loops in Java. Syntax for a for loop in Java Here is the syntax for creating a for loop: for (initialization;
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How to Use CSS Overview in Chrome Dev Tools

If you’re a web developer, you probably appreciate a well-designed and attractive website. And you might see a color scheme or font on a specific website that you want to incorporate into your blog or web app. But you’ll need a browser extension to see the website’s color scheme
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What Can Money Heist Teach Us About Cybersecurity?

I was watching the TV series, La Casa De Papel (Money Heist), on Netflix a few weeks ago. I realized that the story of the gang can reveal some best practices we should use while dealing with the security of the products we build. Beware – this text contains spoilers.
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