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GM Finally Admits Touchscreens in a Corvette Are Dumb'and Brings Back Real Buttons
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (922+ words) General Motors is about to do something wildly sensible: it's putting physical buttons back in the Corvette. Yes, that Corvette'the American sports car that can run with exotics'has been flirting with the same "everything lives in a screen" nonsense that's…...
Trump Posts AI Pic With Jesus After Storms'And Somehow the Image Becomes the Story
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (726+ words) Donald Trump says storm victims need "a lot of help." Fair enough. But he didn't just post a standard sympathy note on X'he paired it with an AI-generated image of himself standing alongside Jesus. In a country where politics and…...
NASA Thought It Was a Normal Solar Radio Burst'Then It Just Wouldn't Quit for 19 Days
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (632+ words) NASA solar watchers saw a radio burst coming off the Sun in August 2025 and did what they always do: logged it, watched it, moved on. Except this one didn't move on. Hours turned into days. Days turned into the kind…...
BYD Says Its Cars Can Limp on Three Wheels After a Blowout'Here's the Catch
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (772+ words) Picture this: you're on the shoulder, hazards blinking, staring at a shredded tire and a jack you haven't touched since the Obama administration. BYD'China's EV juggernaut'wants to sell you a different ending. The company is touting a new "driving mode…...
America's "Latchkey Kids" Grew Up Tough'And Sometimes Emotionally MIA
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (844+ words) You know the type: came home from school alone, key on a shoelace, poured a bowl of cereal for dinner, and called it "independence." America loves that story. It's tidy. It flatters us. But there's a darker footnote the nostalgia…...
UCSF spots a "blink-and-you-miss-it" pregnancy cell'and it may react to THC
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (880+ words) A team at UC San Francisco says it's found a human cell type nobody had clocked before'because it shows up for a hot minute, right at the start of pregnancy, then vanishes. The work, published in Nature, comes out of…...
Medieval Men Were Buried at a 5, 000-Year-Old Spanish Tomb'DNA Says They Weren't "Local
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (1009+ words) Picture this: a Stone Age mega-tomb in southern Spain'older than the pyramids'gets two new tenants in the Middle Ages. Not kings. Not priests. Just two adult men, quietly laid into simple pits right at the entrance of the Dolmen of…...
Medieval men buried at a 5, 000-year-old Spanish tomb had DNA from Europe, Africa, and the Levant
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (1055+ words) Two medieval guys got buried at the front door of a Stone Age mega-tomb in southern Spain. And thanks to ancient DNA, they're now telling a story that doesn't fit the neat little boxes people love. The place is the…...
France's Sopra Steria just bought a startup's AI "eyes'and Normandy didn't see it coming
1+ week, 4+ day ago (631+ words) Sopra Steria'the big French IT-services outfit most Americans have never heard of but plenty of governments and banks rely on'just snapped up the core AI video-analysis tech from a small startup in Normandy called Neuroo. Translation: the consultants are buying…...
France just made sub1, 000 MW offshore wind "auto-approved'and developers are cheering
1+ week, 5+ day ago (685+ words) France is tired of drowning offshore wind in paperwork. So it just rewired its energy code: offshore wind farms under 1 gigawatt'about 1, 000 megawatts'are now basically treated as already authorized. That's a big deal in a country that loves grand plans and…...