yay!

The Aptera is an electric autocycle with a drag coefficient of 0.13, modern supercars are between 0.30 to 0.39. The carbon fiber body is made in Modena, Italy, at the facility of C.P.C. Group that makes parts for several brands, including Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Maserati. Assembly takes place in Carlsbad, CA. The Aptera has a 400 mile range. Solar panels add 40 miles of range per day to the vehicle, allowing free charging on days you drive less than 40 miles. The three wheeler is a two seater hatchback with plenty of cargo space for your needs. The launch edition target price is $40,000 and goes in to production early 2026

Valve enters the console wars

Valve is rebooting its failed Steam Machine initiative — and this time, it’s building the living room console itself

At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors

ahhh, endlich. es reinigt sich.

Meta is retiring Facebook's external Like and Share buttons for third-party websites on February 10, 2026, officially closing the book on a once-dominant traffic driver as usage declines and Facebook's role within Meta continues to shrink

Privacy activists say proposed changes to Europe's landmark privacy law, including making it easier for Big Tech to harvest Europeans' personal data for AI training, would flout EU case law and gut the legislation

Neom -- Saudi Arabia's hugely expensive, architecturally bizarre urban development project -- is floundering and close to collapse

Cocktails and checkmates: the young Britons giving chess a new lease of life

Laid-back clubs proving a hit in London, Birmingham and elsewhere as people look for new ways to socialise

A home where "technology is always in the background, working and listening, feels anxiety-producing" instead of restorative, architect Yan M. Wang tells Axios

Dungeons & Dragons Brings Purpose and Fulfillment - and Maybe Structure and Connection for Retirees

Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes — no wonder we’re addicted

In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented.

This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and detailed QA tests altogether.

double strike by captain obvious and captain karma

Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That's one trillion memories, moments, and movements -- preserved for the public and available to access

study reveals that foreign suspects are mentioned three times more in German media than their actual share in police statistics, influencing public perception of crime and migration

xD

Apple flavors and types, visualized

Legendary developer Tomonobu Itagaki, creator of Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden 2004, has died

Death to Spotify: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app