Getty Images / Noel Hendrickson Microsoft is hellbent on stuffing Windows 11 with AI — and many feel that this is coming at the expense of the operating system’s usability. That aggrieved sentiment now seems more vindicated than ever, after Microsoft rolled out a new update that prevented users from shutting down their PCs —… Continue reading As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs
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Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall
Getty Images / Donald Iain Smith Is the AI industry racing towards a point where the tech’s progress stalls out or slows to a crawl? Many experts, including one of the field’s foundational figures, seem to think it’s possible. “There is a clear possibility that we will hit a wall, that there’s some difficulty that… Continue reading Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall
How BYD beat Tesla
On The Vergecast: The new king of EVs, AI is coming for your health records, and the many faces of screen time. On The Vergecast: The new king of EVs, AI is coming for your health records, and the many faces of screen time. by David Pierce Jan 20, 2026, 1:40 PM UTC David Pierce… Continue reading How BYD beat Tesla
Wawa now has its own self-branded Tesla Superchargers
Image: Tesla Wawa, the biggest Tesla Supercharger host, has joined Tesla’s Supercharger for Business program and launched its first self-branded site. Wawa and Tesla began working together over a decade ago, and the popular convenience store chain already has 223 sites with Tesla Superchargers, featuring a whopping 2,115 stalls. And now, its first site with… Continue reading Wawa now has its own self-branded Tesla Superchargers
Clean Technica: Addressing the Scale-Up Challenge for Clean Energy Process Technologies004330
Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. By Dhruv Soni, Senior Technical Program Manager at Tesla Battery Minerals and Metals, CELI 2025 Fellow In the clean energy boom of the 2020s, the United States has continued to lead the world in early-stage innovation, especially across next-generation chemical process industries such as carbon… Continue reading Clean Technica: Addressing the Scale-Up Challenge for Clean Energy Process Technologies004330
Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth
Getty Images / Oscar Wong The future moguls of corporate America aren’t living like the new money princes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Instead, today’s aspiring tycoons are pursuing a different kind of luxury: a monastic purity through abstinence. For Mahir Laul, founder of HR software startup Velric, the typically youthful whirlwind of… Continue reading Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth
Toyota is launching its first EV in India tomorrow, and it’s a new midsize electric SUV
The Urban Cruiser EV is arriving as Toyota’s first all-electric vehicle in India. With prices expected to start at around Rs 19 lakh ($21,000), the entry-level EV will compete in the heart of India’s booming electric SUV market. The Urban Cruiser SUV is Toyota’s first EV in India After launching the Urban Cruiser EV in… Continue reading Toyota is launching its first EV in India tomorrow, and it’s a new midsize electric SUV
How much can a city take?
Civil rights As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts. by Scott Meslow Jan 19, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb… Continue reading How much can a city take?
Cybertruck Sales Show Stomach-Churning Drop
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Tesla’s “apocalypse-proof” Cybertruck is continuing to experience a near-cataclysmic plunge in sales that seems impossible to recover from. According to a new analysis of Cox Automotive data by InsideEVs, the unorthodox electric pickup truck suffered the steepest drop in sales by volume of any EV sold in the US… Continue reading Cybertruck Sales Show Stomach-Churning Drop
Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Grand Hindsley / AFP via Getty Images An Amazon fulfillment center in Texas became a murder scene after a dispute between co-workers spiraled into a shooting that left one man dead and two others implicated in his murder. The incident unfolded just after 10 p.m. on January 10… Continue reading Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility