The Amble One is a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy designed for luxury resorts. It seems to be the week for cheap EVs. Right after the production model of the Slate electric truck was revealed, complete with a bump in range, a new European entrant in electric mobility is launching…
Illinois passed a similar law, giving services more incentive to make ads less booming. On July 1, it will be illegal for streaming platforms to play ads louder than the content being watched in California. As The Hollywood Reporter highlighted this week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill…
Russian government lashes out at Apple’s “bizarre” decisions. According to Apple’s 2025 App Store Transparency Report, Russia is the runaway world leader in one category: Demanding that Apple remove apps from its App Store. In 2025, Russia asked that Apple remove 1,213 apps—many of these VPN apps were designed…
Update began June 15 and will no longer allow you to share your login info. Recently, my father called me in a panic. There were just a few minutes until Netflix would start streaming a live MMA event, and he couldn’t get into my account. For a while, he…
It’s “an exciting advance in efforts to restock the antibiotic arsenal.” Antibiotic resistance has loomed over humans since the moment we started using antibiotics. In the 20th century, the drugs downgraded potentially life-threatening bacterial infections to mere inconveniences—a miracle of modern medicine, it seemed. But the drugs aren’t really…
With falling sales in the US and especially China, VW Group wants to restructure. Volkswagen Group is considering what was previously unthinkable: closing up to four factories in Germany and instituting layoffs that would shrink the workforce by 15 percent. 2025 was a bad year for Europe’s largest automaker.…
Rock weathering may release or draw down carbon dioxide—it depends on the rock. Since the early 1980s, Earth scientists have understood that erosion and weathering of rock slowly removes CO2 from the atmosphere, regulating Earth’s climate on geological timescales. But recent studies have shown that erosion can also emit…
About a quarter of PCs are still running Microsoft’s previous operating system. Microsoft ended official support for Windows 10 in 2025, but the company may have a harder time than expected putting the operating system out to pasture. After promising a year of optional extended update support, Microsoft has…
Notion is “going all in on using agents to run your inbox.” In February 2024, Notion bought Skiff, an encrypted email and productivity software startup. Within a year, Notion shut down Skiff’s email service (taking @skiff.com email addresses with it). And in April 2025, the San Francisco-based company released…
At the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star’s chromosphere brightens. For most of human history, our view of “close to the Sun” was defined by the orbit of Mercury, with its 88-day orbit and barren, baking surface. But from the moment we started discovering exoplanets,…
