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Mark Poynting,Climate and science reporterand Jonah Fisher,Environment correspondent PA Media The number of monitored bathing sites in England meeting minimum standards for water quality has risen slightly since last year, according to new figures from the Environment Agency. Out of the 449 sites regularly tested this summer, 93% met minimum standards for levels of bacteria…
The EcoFlow Black Friday sale is in full swing, knocking thousands of dollars off portable power stations and their accessories. One of the best discounts at the moment is on the Delta Pro 3, which is 43 percent off and down to $2,099. That’s the lowest we’ve seen it and, considering it typically costs $3,699,…
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The Trump administration has disbanded the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a controversial team of federal cost-cutters previously led by Elon Musk, despite months left of the unit’s mandate. Reuters first reported this weekend that DOGE had broken up, ending the months-long effort by Musk and his associates — many recruited from his various…
Pocket Casts, the podcast app owned by Tumblr’s parent company Automattic, launched a new feature that lets you create podcast playlists, allowing you to organize your favorite episodes in just the order you like. You can either create a playlist manually, or Pocket Casts can automatically create one for you. Playlists are designed to better…
AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human well-being or just maximize for engagement.A new benchmark dubbed HumaneBench seeks to fill that gap by evaluating whether chatbots prioritize user well-being and how easily those protections fail under pressure….
The US Consumer Protection Safety Commission issued a stark warning about some of Rad Power Bikes’ e-bike batteries Monday, linking them to dozens of fires and saying they “pose a risk of serious injury and death.” The batteries can “unexpectedly ignite and explode,” especially when water or debris leaks in to cells or the harness,…
The AI labs never sleep — especially the week before Thanksgiving, it seems. Days after Google’s buzzworthy Gemini 3, and OpenAI’s updated agentic coding model, Anthropic has announced Claude Opus 4.5, which it bills as “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use,” claiming it has leapfrogged even Gemini 3 in…
Revolut has raised new funding in a share sale that values it at $75 billion, positioning the British neobank as one of Europe’s most valuable private tech companies. The company said on Monday the deal was led by Coatue, Greenoaks, Dragoneer, and Fidelity. Investors including Nvidia’s NVentures, Andreessen Horowitz, Franklin Templeton, and other backers advised…
There’s only one fusion device on earth that has been able to meet a key scientific threshold, but Maritime Fusion CEO Justin Cohen is already preparing to put a fusion reactor on a boat. Stay with me —it’s not entirely far-fetched. Thanks to advances in AI, computing, and superconducting magnets, fusion power is closer than…
