đź’Ą Explore this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Exit Interview âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Owning the United States Selling electric cars has been a wild ride in the 2020s.Since Polestar Short Hills opened in northern New Jersey in 2021, it has seen a COVID-era surge in demand and a shortage of EVs, leaving some used EVs with higher valuations than new ones; A new federal tax credit of up to $7,500 brought a new wave of drivers in the door; Decreased sales volumes following rollback of the federal tax credit and elimination of…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Health,Less Bad 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: On June 30, The FDA has allowed 20 ZYN nicotine pod products to carry a specific “modified risk” claim. This means that in the United States, ZYN can now confirm that “using ZYN instead of cigarettes reduces the risk of oral cancer, heart disease, lung cancer, stroke, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.”The decision does not mean that nicotine pouches are safe or approved as smoking cessation products. It simply allows Swedish Match, which makes ZYN, to market certain products as a less harmful…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Business,Business / Big Tech,Business / Artificial Intelligence,Failure To Launch đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Negotiations between Google DeepMind and its London-based employees stumbled over the possibility of unionizing this week, after initial talks left union representatives feeling they wasted their time, WIRED has learned.In May, DeepMind employees asked Google to recognize the Communications Workers Union and Unite the Union as joint representatives. The company later rejected this request, but agreed to participate in negotiations arbitrated by an external body.The initial meeting on Wednesday was attended by union officials, DeepMind employees…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Science,Science / Environment,The Nuclear Option 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Three startups are: Providing fireworks for the Department of Energy's Fourth of July celebrations by achieving a major nuclear milestone. They have commissioned new reactors as part of a pilot program aimed at launching what Energy Secretary Chris Wright calls an “American nuclear renaissance” to develop and deploy the next generation of atomic energy.Other companies in the pilot program have indicated they may reach criticality — a term used to describe a nuclear reactor that maintains a chain reaction, a…
đź’Ą Discover this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,artificial intelligence,evergreens,Glossary 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or panel these days, and you’ll hear people toss around LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world feel a little insecure. This glossary is our attempt to fix that: pain-English definitions of the AI terms you’re most likely to actually run into, whether you’re building with…
đź’Ą Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Climate,Transportation,Chevrolet,chevrolet silverado,electric vehicles,review âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Even though I grew up hauling my dad's Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck from the passenger seat, I'm not exactly Chevy's target market. I prefer hatchbacks to cargo beds. But after cruising around Detroit for a day in a Silverado EV, I realized that Chevy might yet make a truck guy out of me. The Silverado EV drives almost as good as a car. However, the bed is huge, wooden, and cavernous. The back seat has enough room for me to fit my…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Apps,Startups,Browser,evergreens,search engines,web browser 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The browser wars entered a new phase this year: The fight is no longer just about search results, but about which company can act on your behalf within the browser itself. Google Chrome and Apple's Safari still dominate the overall market, with Chrome's advantage coming largely from how strongly it integrates generative AI into search. But 2026 has brought a wave of new entrants — from well-funded startups to big tech companies themselves — all betting that the browser is about to become…
đź’Ą Explore this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gadgets,Claude,custom keyboards,gadget,Project mirage âś… **What You’ll Learn**: My biggest pet peeve with meeting apps is that each one has a different shortcut to mute your microphone or turn off your webcam. It's hard to remember which keys do what when you're in the middle of a meeting and trying to make a point or ask a question. I've always wanted a universal physical button to control volume and camera mute — something I could press without thinking. Project Mirage's Dune, a small three-key aluminum keyboard — about the size of…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Buying Guides,Gear / Products / Phones,Overseas Call âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Other Good International PhonesThese phones are worth considering if you have yet to see something you like.Photograph: Simon HillOppo Find N6 for $1,959: Touting a creaseless 8.12-inch display, the Find N6 is a beautifully engineered folding phone that’s impossibly slim and light. Despite the promise, the crease is still discernible, but you’ll hardly notice it when the screen is on, though you’ll feel it if you use the optional stylus. Performance is impressively slick, with enough stamina…
đź’Ą Read this insightful post from WIRED đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gear,Gear / Gear News and Events,Gear / Products,Price Hike âś… **What You’ll Learn**: If you are in In the market for anything with a memory stick, this might be a good time to disable it.It looks like another round of consumer electronics price increases is underway. In June, Apple announced price increases for MacBooks and iPads. Xbox consoles also became more expensive starting in August. This comes on the heels of already high prices for products like Sony's PlayStation 5 Pro and, you know, oil, pushing up gas prices and…
