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Electric car buyers got an 11.4 percent sales share last September when a $7,500 tax credit expired, but the market has since settled at barely half that level

A year after the $7,500 federal EV credit expired, electric car sales settled near 5-6% of the market as hybrids and tariff costs reshape pricing.
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Silent book clubs grow to 2,000 chapters across 62 countries

Silent book clubs have expanded to more than 2,000 chapters in 62 countries, offering quiet, no-homework reading meetups ...
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A chatbot’s reply taps only 41 billion of its 675 billion parameters per word, and that gap is how free AI models stay fast and cheap to run

Inside the mixture of experts system that lets huge AI models like Mistral Large 3 answer instantly by activating a fraction ...
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A pair of worn Forever 21 shorts from the early 2000s resold for nearly $200 on an app, and old mall clothes are now priced and sold as vintage treasure

A $198 resale of old Forever 21 shorts shows how Gen Z is turning mall-era clothing into a priced vintage market.
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An Ohio factory melts 150 tons of glass a day for solar panels, and it is the first plant in the country that makes this hidden layer at all

An Ohio factory is now the first US plant producing solar panel glass at scale, melting 150 tons daily to cut import reliance ...
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Microsoft report documents first fully autonomous ransomware attack

Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report documents JADEPUFFER, the first fully autonomous ransomware attack, and warns AI is ...
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A sticker inside the driver’s door frame on 135 trucks and SUVs listed the wrong weight limit, and federal rules say that paperwork error alone can trigger a recall

Toyota is recalling thousands of trucks and SUVs over inaccurate payload stickers, revealing how the door jamb weight label ...
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Kinsey Institute survey finds singles redefining relationship milestones in 2026

Kinsey Institute's 15th annual Singles in America survey finds singles loosening old relationship milestones and splitting on AI's role in dating.
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A quantum chip needed 288 physical qubits to hold twelve error free ones, and that ratio undercuts the industry’s old assumption by a factor of ten

IBM's new chip design cuts the physical qubits needed per logical qubit from thousands to 144, slashing the hardware bill for fault tolerant quantum computing.
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Massachusetts funds 80 MWh iron-sodium battery at ski resort

Massachusetts awards $4.5 million for an 80 MWh iron-sodium battery at Berkshire East ski resort to manage snowmaking power ...
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Checkout splits a $200 purchase into four payments of $50 each, and federal data shows 63 percent of buy now pay later users end up juggling several loans at once

Buy now pay later promises four easy payments, but a new survey finds most users end up stacking multiple loans and falling behind.
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Google expands Gemini student hub to K-12 classrooms of all ages

Google has rolled its Gemini student hub out to Education accounts of all ages, widening AI study tools inside Google ...