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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From a backyard hot tub to the warmest slippers, these picks will make your loved ones feel warm and fuzzy—inside and out.
Allan and Margaret Hirsch founded Hirsch’s Homestores with just R900.
The ANC has taken aim at DA minister Solly Malatsi’s policy directive on BEE, leaving Icasa caught in the crossfire.
Motorola phones may seem old-school, but their reasonable prices, colorful designs, and simple software make them good, wallet-friendly Android smartphones.
The ANC has slammed Communications Minister Solly Malatsi’s policy direction instructing Icasa to change equity ownership rules.
Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up—and which one might be right for you.
Bat-Fam, The Girlfriend, and The Mighty Nein are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Amazon Prime Video this week.
A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?
Plus: Travelers to the US may have to hand over five years of social media history, South Korean CEOs are resigning due to cyberattacks, and more.
This laid-back ride comes with an almost bewildering array of power modes and riding styles. Just make sure you obey the law.
Nkosana Makate will face his former backer, Errol Elsdon, in an arbitration hearing to oppose a claim against 40% of his settlement from Vodacom for his Please Call Me idea.
Plus: Apple Fitness+ expands to new markets, it’s even easier to add photos to Aura’s digital frames, and the new Nocs speakers go heavy metal.
I’ve been reviewing smart lighting for years. Here are tips on how to prep, what to choose, and the smart lights that work best in each room.
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...
Instagram is awash with Asian firms showing how they can remake old Broncos, Defenders, and other whole classic cars—better and much cheaper than in the US.