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Sold across 421,078 SUVs and pickups as a collision-stopper, a forward collision-avoidance system under federal recall fires the brakes prematurely in normal traffic …

A federal recall covers 421,078 Hyundai Tucson and Santa Cruz vehicles whose collision-avoidance software brakes on a clear ...
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Hundreds of millions of iPhones shipped with satellite messaging already built in, and a two-year free trial buried in the fine print has now been extended three times with…

Apple's iPhone satellite messaging launched as a free two-year trial. It's been extended three times and Apple has never ...
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Suburban Americans lead in community engagement while urban residents dominate online group life, Pew finds

A Pew-Knight Initiative analysis finds suburban, urban and rural Americans participate at similar overall rates but differ ...
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Arizona desert households face $20 more a month after a utility asked regulators for a residential rate hike while also seeking more than 45 percent more from data cent…

Arizona's dominant electric utility proposed a 45%+ rate hike for data centers and a $579M revenue increase, adding $20/month ...
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Hands-free driving hardware sits in hundreds of thousands of vehicles on US roads, and when the three-year trial ends, as many as 7 in 10 owners let the subscription lapse

GM and Ford sell hands-free driving as a premium feature, but data from GM's own earnings reveals 60–70% of owners stop paying once the free trial expires.
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US utilities filed a record $9.2 billion in rate increase requests in Q2 2026, with more than 56 million customers facing higher bills

US utilities filed a record $9.2 billion in rate increase requests in Q2 2026, pushing the first-half total to $18.6 billion and putting 56 million customers at risk of higher bills.
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Around 35 percent of adults’ social media contacts are strangers they have never met in person, and a nationally representative study of more than 1,500 adults finds those ...

A nationally representative study of 1,500+ US adults finds that social media contacts who are strangers increase loneliness, while real-life friends online offer no relief at all.
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A 2nm chip arrives in the iPhone

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, announced September 9 and shipping September 18, debut the 2nm A20 Pro chip and Apple's own C2 cellular modem, dropping Qualcomm.
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Legacy automakers saw drops of 60 percent or more in US electric vehicle sales in a single quarter, and two brands doubled their volume while the market shrank aroun…

US EV sales fell 27% year-over-year in Q1 2026 after federal tax credits expired, and legacy automakers lost 60–70% of sales ...
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Fervo Energy’s Cape Station delivers first power from a utility-scale enhanced geothermal plant

Fervo Energy's Cape Station in Utah became the world's first utility-scale enhanced geothermal system to deliver power to the ...
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77% of US adults now back in-school cellphone bans, a nine-point climb since 2024, Pew finds

A Pew Research Center survey of 9,750 US adults finds 77% support in-class school cellphone bans, up from 68% in 2024, with ...
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A Japanese automaker’s US electric vehicle sales jumped 136 percent in six months, and it has overtaken Ford, Rivian, Kia and seven other brands in the EV rankings

A Japanese automaker's US EV sales surged 136% in the first half of this year, vaulting it past Ford, Rivian, Kia and eight ...