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The 34 best gift ideas for mom this holiday season

Verge Shopping Mothers deserve anything they want, and we’ve got a couple dozen gift ideas that should make most moms happy. by Cameron Faulkner Nov 11, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge… Continue reading The 34 best gift ideas for mom this holiday season

Dark Clouds Suddenly Gathering Over AI Industry

Getty / Futurism A major tech selloff is shaking up Wall Street as the enormous gulf between AI company valuations and their lagging revenues continues to grow. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the stock market has been showing marked signs of “fragility,” with Nvidia slipping seven percent last week. Despite signs of an end… Continue reading Dark Clouds Suddenly Gathering Over AI Industry

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI chatbots have conquered the world, so it was only a matter of time before companies started stuffing them into toys for children, even as questions swirled over the tech’s safety and the alarming effects they can have on users’ mental health.   Now, new research shows… Continue reading AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

Harbinger Raises $160M in Series C Funding

Harbinger, a Garden Grove, CA-based American-made medium-duty electric and hybrid vehicle manufacturer, raised $160M in Series C funding. The round was led by FedEx, Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund, and THOR Industries, with participation from Ridgeline, Tiger Global, Leitmotif, Maniv Mobility, Schematic Ventures, Overture Climate, Ironspring Ventures, ArcTern Ventures, Litquidity Ventures, and The Coca-Cola System Sustainability… Continue reading Harbinger Raises $160M in Series C Funding

DJI’s Neo 2 selfie drone launches globally, but not in the US

The drone has new obstacle avoidance features, gesture controls, and a longer flight time, but no US availability. The drone has new obstacle avoidance features, gesture controls, and a longer flight time, but no US availability. by Andrew Liszewski Nov 13, 2025, 12:00 PM UTC Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and… Continue reading DJI’s Neo 2 selfie drone launches globally, but not in the US

Clean Technica: More Tesla FSD Expansion, & More “Interesting” Comments on Robots & AI004249

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Last night I wrote the article “Tesla’s Hail Mary — Signs of Progress vs. Recent Sales Concerns,” but I wasn’t really happy with how I wrote it and the core points I wanted to make. Well, there’s a bit more news from Tesla on FSD… Continue reading Clean Technica: More Tesla FSD Expansion, & More “Interesting” Comments on Robots & AI004249

Clean Technica: Tesla’s Hail Mary — Signs of Progress vs. Recent Sales Concerns004248

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Earlier today, under an article by Steve Hanley on Tesla’s sales crashing even further in Germany and China, in response to another commenter, I wrote that there were “a lot of potential building blocks toward good news,” but the actual real, hard news of the… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla’s Hail Mary — Signs of Progress vs. Recent Sales Concerns004248

Billboard’s Top Country Song Is Currently AI Slop

Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard‘s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The song, titled “Walk My Walk,” by a fictional group called Breaking Rust, tells an incredibly generic story about a man who has “been beat… Continue reading Billboard’s Top Country Song Is Currently AI Slop

DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules

On November 21, 2023, field intelligence officers within the Department of Homeland Security quietly deleted a trove of Chicago Police Department records. It was not a routine purge. For seven months, the data—records that had been requested on roughly 900 Chicagoland residents—sat on a federal server in violation of a deletion order issued by an… Continue reading DHS Kept Chicago Police Records for Months in Violation of Domestic Espionage Rules