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Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen for everyday coding tasks

Google launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a fast, low-cost AI model for everyday coding and agentic workflows, priced at $1.50 per ...
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A Michigan lab is building sodium batteries that will never power a car, and General Motors says the chemistry cuts grid storage costs by 20 percent instead

GM is developing sodium-ion battery cells in Michigan for grid storage, not EVs, citing lower cost over range as the deciding ...
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A flagship phone launched this winter with a one inch camera sensor behind its lens, and that makes it the largest true one inch sensor among mainstream smartphones …

A flagship phone's one inch main camera sensor is now the largest ever fitted to a mainstream smartphone, testers confirm.
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A worker badges in nearly four days a week, but new accounting puts a hidden $6,736 yearly tax on that routine, draining nearly a tenth of pay

A new analysis puts the real yearly cost of returning to the office at $6,736 per worker, about 9.3 percent of a typical ...
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Wellness influencers push products in 38 percent of posts, Pew finds

Pew Research finds health and wellness influencers promote products in 38% of posts, and most followers end up buying ...
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Fleet charging depots add 22 megawatts of grid load across four cities

Terawatt Infrastructure opened four fleet EV charging depots totaling 22 megawatts, testing utility coordination in four ...
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Fast chargers nationwide charge nearly 20 cents more per kilowatt hour at peak than off peak, and only a quarter of stations use that pricing yet

New fast-charging data show peak and off-peak EV prices splitting by nearly 20 cents per kWh, reshaping who profits at the ...
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A Massachusetts pilot started paying EV owners for power pulled back out of car batteries this summer, and the state already has well over 100,000 EVs that could ev…

Massachusetts utilities now pay EV owners to export power from parked cars during peak demand, a vehicle-to-grid shift aimed ...
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GitHub Agentic Workflows open source tool reaches general availability

GitHub Agentic Workflows, an open source tool for running AI coding agents in GitHub Actions, is now generally available.
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Federal regulators pulled 3.2 million Tesla cars with camera-only driver assist software into a final safety review, and the system can’t tell when its own cameras go blind ...

NHTSA's engineering analysis covers 3.2 million Tesla FSD vehicles, probing why the system fails to flag when cameras are ...
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A 200 gigabit laser link beamed from a tissue box sized satellite with zero steerable parts, and the craft itself aimed its whole body to hit that speed

A tissue box sized NASA payload skipped laser gimbals entirely, steering its whole satellite body to hit record 200 Gbps ...
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Midweek office peak expands to three days, new data shows

New workplace data shows the midweek office peak has grown from two days to three, straining desks and commutes Tuesday ...