The Best OTC Hearing Aids (2025), Tested and Reviewed

If you’re spending hundreds or thousands of dollars buying an OTC hearing aid, make sure you’re getting a product that offers a sustainable long-term solution to your hearing loss needs. Aside from the obvious things like sound quality, take a few minutes to look into these specs. What size and style works best for you?… Continue reading The Best OTC Hearing Aids (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too

They’ve been pushed out of the workforce, now we’re training robots to do the few jobs teens have left. They’ve been pushed out of the workforce, now we’re training robots to do the few jobs teens have left. by Terrence O’Brien Oct 25, 2025, 6:00 PM UTC Terrence O’Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He… Continue reading Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest

Every few weekends, 21-year-old student Lavanya Jain opens the BlaBlaCar app to find a lift from Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi to his home in Kandhla, a small town in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh state. The 120-kilometer journey costs him about ₹500, the equivalent of about $6. That’s a fraction of the ₹1,500–₹2,000,… Continue reading India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest

Amazon Reveals Smart Glasses That Effectively Turn Its Delivery Drivers Into Cyborg Drones

Amazon is spending copious amounts of money looking for ways to automate labor currently done by human workers. The company is hoping to replace more than half a million jobs with robots by 2033, as the New York Times reported this week (the company is currently the United States’ second-largest employer after Walmart.) And in… Continue reading Amazon Reveals Smart Glasses That Effectively Turn Its Delivery Drivers Into Cyborg Drones

Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard

@mattxiv via X San Francisco is plastered with billboards advertising AI tech, all in varying degrees of in-your-face dystopic. Even so, a new crop of them has managed to stand out from the pack by being shockingly upfront about the industry’s attitude toward regular humans. “Our AI does your daughter’s homework. Reads her bedtime stories.… Continue reading Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard

Law School Tests Trial With Jury Made Up of ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude

Eric Muller The University of North Carolina School of Law held an unusual mock trial on Friday. Looming over the proceedings even more prominently than the judge running the show were three tall digital displays, sticking out with their glossy finishes amid the courtroom’s sea of wood paneling. Each screen represented a different AI chatbot:… Continue reading Law School Tests Trial With Jury Made Up of ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude

Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers

Reflect Orbital These days, orbital real estate is growing increasingly cluttered with all manner of communication, observation, research, and navigation satellites. It’s a market worth $286 billion in 2022, projected to grow precipitously in the coming years as mass production takes off. One bold new startup is looking to cash in on the frenzy with… Continue reading Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers

Is Waymo ready for winter?

Transportation Autonomous Cars Snow and ice pose unique challenges for driverless cars. And Waymo’s expansion depends on its ability to tackle them head on. Snow and ice pose unique challenges for driverless cars. And Waymo’s expansion depends on its ability to tackle them head on. by Andrew J. Hawkins Oct 25, 2025, 12:00 PM UTC… Continue reading Is Waymo ready for winter?

Clean Technica: AI Bubbles & Robot Armies004222

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. It seems that AI and robots are all the rage these days. The future is all about AI and robots. I keep getting fed stories about these, some extremely optimistic, some extremely pessimistic. The following are a few big stories and comments from recent weeks.… Continue reading Clean Technica: AI Bubbles & Robot Armies004222

Clean Technica: “We Don’t Need No Stinking New Models!” —Tesla004221

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Riffing on a unique story or two by Zachary Shahan yesterday, Reuters this morning has a report with this cheery headline: “Tesla gambles that introducing new models no longer matters.” CleanTechnica readers, being unusually astute, are well aware that Tesla has not introduced a new… Continue reading Clean Technica: “We Don’t Need No Stinking New Models!” —Tesla004221