247,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, even after several hundred thousand miles. “They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable.” After five years on the road, the average EV will still be able to drive up Read more…
Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers. They’ve all become targets in wartime, and around the world now arguments “are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs.” In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies and municipal Read more…
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline “Group project, but make it 1776,” the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets Read more…
The Verge argues that researchers “have made genuine progress in quantum computing — it’s just been largely incremental and too esoteric to immediately capture the public’s imagination.” And there are predictions that quantum computers will finally do something useful as soon as 2028: The drama can overshadow the real progress Read more…
Researchers who tracked more than 90,000 people over a decade found that sitting or lying down while awake for more than 30 minutes in one period each day was associated with an increased risk of cancer death. The risk increases for every additional hour of continuous inactivity, the findings suggest. Read more…
The US age-adjusted death rate fell to a record low in 2025, likely pushing life expectancy to a record high as overdose deaths declined and mortality improved across all age groups. CNN reports: There were about 689 deaths for every 100,000 people in the US in 2025, according to a Read more…