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The World’s Electric Car Sales Have Spiked 21% So Far in 2025

Today at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Electrek reports:EV and battery supply chain research specialists Benchmark Mineral Intelligence reports that 2.0 million electric vehicles were sold globally in November 2025, bringing global EV sales to 18.5 million units year-to-date. That’s a 21% increase compared to the same period in 2024.Europe was the clear growth leader in November, while North America continued to lag following the...

How a 23-Year-Old in 1975 Built the World’s First Handheld Digital Camera

Today at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

In 1975, 23-year-old electrical engineer Steve Sasson joined Kodak. And in a new interview with the BBC, he remembers that he’d found the whole photographic process “really annoying…. I wanted to build a camera with no moving parts. Now that was just to annoy the mechanical engineers…””You take your picture, you have to wait a long time, you have to fiddle with these chemicals. Well, you know,...

More of America’s Coal-Fired Power Plants Cease Operations

Today at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

New England’s last coal-fired power plant “has ceased operations three years ahead of its planned retirement date,” reports the New Hampshire Bulletin. “The closure of the New Hampshire facility paves the way for its owner to press ahead with an initiative to transform the site into a clean energy complex including solar panels and battery storage systems.””The end of coal is real, and it is...

Psychedelic treatments show promise for OCD while cannabis doesn’t, review finds

Today at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Psychiatry professor theorizes that the difference is related to how the substances interact with areas of the brain

A recent review of alternative treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) indicates that psychedelic treatments show promise for the disorder while cannabis does not.

Dr Michael Van Ameringen, a psychiatry professor at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and lead...

Rust in Linux’s Kernel ‘is No Longer Experimental’

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols files this report from Tokyo:At the invitation-only LinuxKernel Maintainers Summit here, the top Linux maintainers decided, as Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, put it, “The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rustin the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core partof the kernel and is here to stay. So the ‘experimental’ tagwill be...

Wes Streeting calls for ‘cross-party consensus’ on gender identity ahead of puberty blocker trial

Today at 16:23 PM, via The Guardian

Health secretary wrote to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, urging her to ‘take heat and ideology’ out of debate

Health secretary Wes Streeting has called on the Conservatives to maintain the “cross party consensus” on gender identity services built before the last election in a letter to Kemi Badenoch.

Streeting wrote to opposition leader on Friday urging her to “take the heat and the...

Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables

Today at 12:00 PM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Clean Energy Wire: Renewable energy sources covered nearly 56 percent of Germany’s gross electricity consumption in 2025, according to preliminary figures by energy industry group BDEW and research institute ZSW. Despite a ‘historically weak’ first quarter of the year for wind power production and a significant drop in hydropower output, the...

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