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The lack of cheap EVs and the reliance on combustion engines is putting Europe’s plan to ban new petrol cars by 2035 at risk.

More of the wild ideas and clever innovations we’re seeing this week at tech’s big show in Las Vegas.

Treatments for rare diseases are hard to create and expensive to deliver, but there is new hope for editing the software of the genome.

Two eyes in the sky are now trained on Earth, locating the worst offenders for releasing methane, wherever they may be.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the new family of foundational AI models was trained on 20 million hours of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also announced new AI tools for creating autonomous agents during a keynote address at CES.

This year's crop of robot vacuums can climb stairs and pick up dirty socks that are in their way. Soon they will be able to play with your cat. Good luck to us all.

We take a first look inside the Flow electric travel trailer, which the company says will ship in the first half of 2025. And yes, you can tow it with your Cybertruck.

Get live reports and photos of all the products, trends, and quirky stuff we're seeing this week at CES in Las Vegas.

The market for absurdist cryptocurrencies mutated into a hundred-billion-dollar phenomenon in 2024. Yes, things can get even more deranged.

Tech's big show isn't fully underway yet, but the odd and wonderful gadgets are already here. These are the coolest things we saw at the event preview.

By grappling with the messy and unpredictable side of existence, machine learning can have impact beyond the digital.

The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well.

This week at CES, companies of all sizes will show off all their new AI-enabled gadgets. Here’s hoping they don’t all just do stuff your phone already excels at.

Harassment, hate, and other social harms feel like an online inevitability, but developers are finally addressing their impact in a meaningful way.

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence in the Trump administration.