Enshittification is a work coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. It seems to perfectly capture the mood of the United States today. The post Greenlash And The Enshittification Of America appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Montana Renewables is planning to expand their sustainable aviation fuel footprint with an assist from the US Department of Energy. The post Your Questions About Montana Renewables, (Partly) Answered appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
The building electrification movement is getting another shot of adrenaline from new energy-efficient heat pump water heater technology. The post More Headaches For Natural Gas: Next-Gen Heat Pump Water Heaters Are Here appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
My brother Tom came to me, and he and I to Mr. Turner the Draper's, and paid 15l. to him for cloth owing to him by my father for his mourning for my uncle, and so to his house, and there invited all the Honiwood's to dinner on Monday next. So to the... | Continue reading
Die Wintersaison ist gut angelaufen, der Schneesport in Österreich ein Milliardengeschäft. Wir müssen trotzdem (ernsthaft) reden. Derzeit führen wir zu oft Scheindebatten, was der volkswirtschaftlichen und sozialen Bedeutung des Skilaufs nicht gerecht wird. Wir müssen auch als To … | Continue reading
Asus has launched a new NUC which is unique in that it comes with an always-on E Ink display on top. Asus is also claiming the NUC 14 Pro AI+ is the world’s first Copilot+ Mini PC that comes powered by Intel Core Ultra processors (Series 2) having multiple CPU, GPU, and NPU archi … | Continue reading
Good piece and great headline by Charlie Warzel at The Atlantic: The social-media hall monitors have been so restrictive on “topics of immigration and gender that they’re out of touch with mainstream discourse,” Zuckerberg said with the zeal of an activist. He spoke about “a cult … | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:The problem with college students these days is [insert any topic you wish to talk about]Today's News: | Continue reading
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge ‘We view what we are doing as a public service,’ says the cofounder of the nonprofit that millions of people are relying on to stay safe. If you live in Los Angeles, you are probably already intimately familiar with Watch Duty, the free app that s … | Continue reading
There were several interesting announcements made at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote at CES 2025, including a new RTX 50 generation of gaming GPUs and an upcoming $3,000 Mac-Mini-sized “personal AI supercomputer” called Project Digits. But most interesting to me was the scale o … | Continue reading
A Google Travel app would act as a central hub for the company's various services and products, making it easy for travelers to take stock. | Continue reading
Something out of the way is happening at the Amazon camp as far as Kindle books are concerned. Many have reported being unable to download e-books they purchased earlier from Amazon. Download and transferring to Kindle happens to be one of the ways of adding content to the Kindle … | Continue reading
While Southern California experienced a historically dry rainy season, Pacific Palisades’ emergency water supply was bare. | Continue reading
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon will be winding down its Prime Try Before You Buy program, which let Prime members try on clothes before paying for them, reports The Information. It will shutter on January 31st, according to a banner at the top of the service’s lan … | Continue reading
Anker’s latest GaN offering sports four USB ports on the bottom, which isn’t where they’re typically relocated. | Image: Anker The inventive gadgets and gizmos at CES can often define the year, but most everything that appears on the showroom floor isn’t going to be available unt … | Continue reading
"Landing our booster offshore is ambitious—but we’re going for it." | Continue reading
South Africa is one of the largest markets for sales of brand new vehicles in Africa. Just over half a million new vehicles are sold in South Africa each year. South Africa is the biggest economy on the continent. However, what really makes a big difference is the country’s well … | Continue reading
The disaster can teach California how to rebuild, if the state will listen. | Continue reading
Tesla seemed as if it was on a smooth road trip looking ahead to the next four years. CEO Elon Musk single-handedly rallied voters in November’s win for the right-wing entourage of Donald J. Trump. Sure, the allegiance came at a cost of $238 million from a fundraising arm that .. … | Continue reading
Get lost in a tiny detail. Memorize. Find the one flaw. Here’s how to truly enjoy every experience. | Continue reading
A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say. | Continue reading
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Leaks and rumors supported by multiple third-party manufactures make up the bulk of info out there about the new Switch. Nintendo’s announcement of the Switch successor is imminent. Just how imminent is anyone’s guess with the company … | Continue reading
Archaeologists have discovered 321 silver coins still wrapped in a cloth and lead pouch from a time in English history marked by upheaval due to the coronation of a new Anglo-Saxon king. | Continue reading
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New renders of the Samsung Galaxy S25 series have appeared in a leak from Android Headlines ahead of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event later this month. The most obvious change here is that Samsung has tweaked the design of the S25 Ultra, rou … | Continue reading
Meanwhile, some of the president-elect’s most controversial Cabinet picks are set to appear before the Senate. | Continue reading
Image: Blue Origin Blue Origin is preparing for one of its biggest launches yet. On Monday, the Jeff Bezos-owned commercial space company will attempt to send its 320-foot-tall New Glenn rocket into space for the first time. The launch comes after almost a decade of development, … | Continue reading
This is my experience dual-yielding a midrange NAS and a cheap Google One subscription to achieve perfect harmony between backups and convenience. | Continue reading
I have a laundry list of favorite Android icon packs, but these are the packs I'd happy pay for all over again (along with a free option). | Continue reading
Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders agree on how to reform the suddenly controversial immigration program. But the real conflict here is within the parties, not between them. | Continue reading
I recently lost my Apple TV remote (the latest model) and despite apparently being somewhere in the couch according to Find My, my wife and I can not find it. We were using our phones as remotes for a couple days, which was annoying, but got the job done. But | Continue reading
A couple weeks ago, news broke that Shell Recharge is getting out of the software market. Normally, getting out of software means not sending out installation files to customers anymore, allowing competing software companies to take care of people’s needs. But, in the case of EV … | Continue reading
Recently, when I saw a video about pulling a travel trailer that brings its own power to the game. And, after seeing too many memes about making undesired modifications to rifles, I immediately thought to myself, “You know what? Screw you! *Turns your truck into a hybrid*” Why wo … | Continue reading
Los Angeles has a long way to go before city and state officials can start looking for lessons to take away from these fires. Likely topics of discussion will include building resilient structures, vegetation management, and community preparedness. But there are also some more ou … | Continue reading
Everyday decisions accumulate into a life. | Continue reading
Photo by PHILIP FONG / AFP via Getty Images Honda’s potential merger with Nissan would represent one of the largest shake-ups to the industry since the creation of Stellantis in 2021. But there are huge risks involved, too. On Tuesday in Las Vegas, during a roundtable discussion … | Continue reading
A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens. | Continue reading
What it means to go from smog to smoke | Continue reading
OnePlus's Live Alerts are a better version of Apple's Dynamic Island, and it's all because they disappear when I'm done. | Continue reading
Cool screens are still undefeated at CES. Twelve years ago, I could have told you exactly what happened at my first CES and what happened at my third. Each was a chapter with a beginning, middle, and end; the lines between them drawn clearly. But now, 15 years since I attended my … | Continue reading
The pain of one of the last middle-class towns in Los Angeles | Continue reading
Turkey vultures feed on dead carcasses, helping to lower greenhouse gas emissions. | Continue reading
Android is belatedly getting a Bluetooth tracker feature which doesn't rely on proprietary apps. Long-time readers will know that back in 2016 I reviewed both the Chipolo and the TinTag. Both of those were adequate at finding things which were in range of your phone, but hopeless … | Continue reading
Some quietly good things made an appearance at CES 2025, amidst the AI slush. | Continue reading
Butler's "Darwin among the machines" warned of a future mechanical race that could subjugate humanity. | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is changing its moderation policy. The announcement was posted on Threads in 6 points and struck me as unusual. I went over these points several times and used ChatGPT to additionally separate the meaning from the PR. Came up to the conclusion … | Continue reading
December saw plugin EVs take 23.4% share in Germany, down from 30.0% share YoY. BEV volume was sharply down YoY in a hold-back ahead of tighter 2025 emissions regulations. Overall auto volume was 224,721 units, down 7% YoY. The bestselling BEV in December was the Tesla Model Y. T … | Continue reading
At CES 2025, LG Electronics continued to push the boundaries of television technology with the announcement of the wireless QNED evo lineup. | Continue reading