Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories: E-vehicles group welcomes e-trike ban, wants ‘clearer implementation’ The Electric Vehicles Association of the Philippines welcomes the Land Transportation Office’s ban on electric tricycles (e-trikes) on major roads in Metro Manila but calls for “clearer implementation” of the rule…Continue Reading
CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from the likes of Nvidia, Sony, and AMD and previews from Sunday’s Unveiled event. …Continue Reading
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman provides an update on the International Space Station and its crew on Jan. 8, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) NASA is bringing some of the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) back to Earth early due to medical concerns withContinue Reading
Venus and Mars meet near the Beehive star cluster in this time-lapse composite image. (Image credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Instituto de Física de Opava)) Skywatchers in the Southern Hemisphere were in for a rare treat as two planets formed a recent conjunction in the night sky. Mars (seen in the upper track) and Venus (lower track)Continue Reading
Trixie plus a carefully configured MATE setup, and absolutely nothing else The Desktop Classic System is a rather unusual hand-built flavor of Debian featuring a meticulously configured spatial desktop layout and a pleasingly 20th-century look and feel.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
No naming that tune and no album covers Microsoft is celebrating the resurgence of interest in physical media in the only way it knows how… by halting the Windows Media Player metadata service.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Copilot – your cuddly companion for nighttime introspection Microsoft analyzed 37.5 million de-identified Copilot conversations from January to September 2025, excluding commercial and educational accounts. The findings reveal distinct usage patterns based on device, time, and day.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
A new hardware enablement (HWE) will roll out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS this month, ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS point release due on February 12. Deeper dive Linux 6.17’s Key New Features Ubuntu’s engineers periodically backport the Linux kernel and graphics drivers included in interim releases toContinue Reading
Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should have serious consequences. That’s what we told a federal court in Channel 781 News v. Waltham Community Access Corporation, our case fighting copyright abuse on behalfContinue Reading
The company previously announced a deal with another nuclear firm, Constellation Energy, in June. , The company previously announced a deal with another nuclear firm, Constellation Energy, in June. , from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Three Democratic senators sent a letter to Apple and Google on Friday asking them to remove X and Grok, arguing the apps directly violate the two tech companies’ “terms of service.”, Three Democratic senators sent a letter to Apple and Google on Friday asking them to remove X and Grok,Continue Reading
Anyone who expected Nvidia to announce new graphics cards at CES 2026 left disappointed. The company unveiled some interesting stuff—like DLSS 4.5 and G-Sync Pulsar, thoughts on an AI gaming GPU, and possible plans to revive old chips to fight rising costs—but nothing as far as the next series of RTX cards…Continue Reading
Turntide Technologies has announced that its Sierra Echo-S, an EV powered by Turntide axial-flux motor technology, will compete in King of the Hammers 2026 off-road race. The entry is intended to prove out off-road electrification in a race that combines high-speed desert sections with slow, technical rock crawling. The SierraContinue Reading