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Ford on Monday will halt production of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup after poor sales of the vehicle, and will re-introduce it as a plug-in hybrid that uses an unusual technology to deliver more than 700 miles of range.
The company also sharply cut plans to make batteries in the U.S. and, in a move likely to spark controversy in Washington, will expand its use of Chinese technology in the batteries it does produce. Ford said it will use that Chinese technology to produce stationary storage batteries.
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If you want to understand how the US government works today, you should study President Donald Trumpâs attempt to pardon a woman named Tina Peters last week. Peters is a former Colorado election clerk and a die-hard believer in the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. In 2021, Peters committed a series of [âŠ] Read more âș
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iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotics. Investors âwill experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investmentâ if the deal is approved, iRobot said. The company didnât discuss how the move might affect its employees in the US or elsewhere. Amazon dropped... Read more âș
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The Stephen King adaptation wrapped up its first season Sunday night on HBO with a little slice of fan service. Read more âș
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Qualcomm has agreed to acquire Ventana Micro Systems, a RISC-V CPU specialist whose engineers have spent several years pushing the open instruction set toward high-performance server and edge designs. Read more âș
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Jimmy Kimmel has responded to Trump's Truth Social post about the death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. Read more âș
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Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are worth a combined $511 billion after jointly adding $185 billion to their fortunes this year. Read more âș
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Apple and Samsung are best equipped to handle rising memory chip costs that could drive down global smartphone shipments by 2.1% in 2026, according to new data from Counterpoint Research. Image credit: iFixit In its latest projection for the smartphone market next year, the firm has downgraded its forecast from a previously expected 0.45% growth, citing a memory shortage that has pushed component costs up 10% to 25%. Chinese brands... Read more âș
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One of 2025's splashiest games, Hollow Knight: Silksong, is getting its first major DLC expansion, developer Team Cherry announced in a blog post. The nautically-themed Sea of Sorrow update will come to the moody Metroidvania some time in 2026, and better still, it will be free for all players. The DLC will include "new areas, bosses, tools and more," the developer wrote. There aren't a lot of clues to the... Read more âș
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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between [âŠ] Read more âș
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Intel has tightened its ties with the current US administration, appointing an economic advisor to President Trump as its new head of government affairs. Read more âș
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Amidst the economic uncertainty ushered in by this AI boom, some folks still have conviction and are offering hope to the community. Edward Crisler, the PR manager for GPU maker Sapphire, has just said that he believes DRAM prices will start to plateau in the next few months, so don't panic buy right now. Read more âș
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Roomba maker iRobot goes bankrupt; now owned by former supplier Picea Read more âș
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Archer, Beta, and Joby are developing autonomous, gas-electric hybrid air taxis in hopes of clinching defense contracts. Read more âș
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Android and iOS aren't the only game in town, and polled readers like this alternative platform. Read more âș
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Connections: Sports Edition is a New York Times word game about finding common sports threads between words. How to solve the day's puzzle. Read more âș
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Itâs been a good year for books. Iâve been glutting myself on them for months: reissued forgotten classics with sentences so crisp you can hear them ringing out through the decades, sprawling new novels that made me laugh and sigh and weep, philosophical nonfiction that has me reaching for my pencil to scrawl thoughts and [âŠ] Read more âș
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Regardless of the experiences and material things that money can offer, at the end of the day, kids "just want your time," Chris Hemsworth said. Read more âș
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Tallinn-based shipping logistics platform MyDello has raised âŹ3.1 million in new funding to accelerate international expansion, starting with the UK, where customers can use the platform from December onwards. Icelandic VC Frumtak Ventures led the investment round, with participation from existing investor Finnish early stage VC Superhero Capital. Joining the board are Frumtak Ventures general ... Read more âș
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The defamation lawsuit's allegations focus on the footage of President Donald Trump's January 6, 2021, speech. Read more âș
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Is AI hurting American jobs? A bit, according to Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell, whose comments Wednesday gave the AI fearmongers a good amount of material to work with.In a press conference, Powell said AI was âpart of the storyâ behind the worsening unemployment that prompted the Fed to lower interest rates for the second time in two months. But he was quick to also say it was ânot a... Read more âș
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Nvidia has developed a new software feature with a location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, Reuters reported. The feature, which hasnât been released yet, could make it possible for Nvidia to crack down on the smuggling of its artificial ... Read more âș
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Lately, Maura Kellerâa Democrat running in Georgiaâs 3rd Congressional district in next yearâs midterm electionsâhas been going to community meetings where one topic comes up again and again âalmost on a weekly basisâ: data centers. Itâs not hard to understand why the subject has surged to the fore. Keller has seen the state transform over the past few years into a hub for data centers, as AI companies buy up... Read more âș
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Over the past week, a handful of accounts on Polymarket, the predictions site, bet OpenAI would release a new large language model by December 13. On Thursday December 11, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, and four of these accounts together made over $13,000, according to the trades displayed on their accounts. The payout is adding fuel to suspicions that a handful of accounts on prediction sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi arenât... Read more âș
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China on Wednesday gathered its biggest tech giants to discuss whether to allow them to buy Nvidiaâs advanced H200 chips, as President Donald Trumpâs recent decision to allow the export of the powerful hardware to the country suddenly complicated Beijingâs goal to become technologically self-sufficient. Officials convened a series of emergency meetings with representatives from companies including Alibaba Group, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings, and asked them to assess their demand... Read more âș
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A spike of investor interest in the data center sector has prompted one major data center developer, Rowan Digital Infrastructure, to consider whether this is a good time to raise fresh capital or possibly even sell, say people familiar with the companyâs thinking. If it were to raise money or sell, it would likely be valued at more than $10 billion, including its debt, the people said. Potential buyers include... Read more âș
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Weâre heading into our last full working week of the year, so the news flow is likely to start quieting down. (Be on the lookout for ServiceNowâs next big acquisition, however). One story thatâs likely to chug along through the holidays is the battle between Netflix and the Ellison familyâs Paramount Skydance for Warner Bros. Discovery. Thereâs sure to be fireworks this week, if for no other reason than the... Read more âș
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MGX, a United Arab Emiratesâbacked fund, is only a year old but has already become one of the biggest data center financiers in the world, leading the largest data center sale negotiated so far and quietly scooping up a stake in another provider with ties to OpenAI. MGX will be the biggest shareholder in Aligned Data Centers, one of the largest data center operators in the U.S., following its $40... Read more âș
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OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information from medical journals and other trusted sources, is raising $250 million in equity financing that will value the three-year-old startup at $12 billion after the investment, doubling its last private valuation from a financing announced just two months ago, according to a person involved in the deal. If the deal closes, the Cambridge, Mass.-based company will become one... Read more âș
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For AI agents to work properly in automating white-collar tasks, the companies developing the agents and the companies running the enterprise apps those agents use will need to agree on technical standards for how these technologies connect to each other.Some leading companies are preparing to do just that. As soon as this week, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and a slate of other tech companies are set to announce a new... Read more âș
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