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[ad_1] These stats are especially striking at this moment, because a key tax credit for heat pumps just ended with the close of 2025. But you wouldn’t know it from looking at the data. Why are heat pumps still so hot? In case you need a quick refresher, heat pumps use electricity to essentially move heat from one spot to another. A refrigerant moves around a loop in the device, expanding and compressing, gathering and releasing heat at different points in the cycle. (For a more in-depth look at the thermodynamics, this explainer I wrote in 2023 still holds up.)…
[ad_1] The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Elon Musk discreetly bought a $1 billion gas turbine firm to power GrokHe acquired fossil fuel company APR Energy in May. (Electrek)+ The most likely application will be powering AI data centers. (Engadget)+ The deal was revealed through an FTC filing. (Gizmodo)+ What will power AI’s growth? (MIT Technology Review) 2 A hack shows the Suno AI music generator scraped YouTube, DeezerIt scraped decades’ worth of music to train its models. (404 Media)+ The hacked is a unique look into the black boxes powering GenAI. (CNET)+…
[ad_1] At the low end of the risk scale, an individual speculator manipulates a weather station for personal gain—that is the CDG Airport case. One step up: A group of traders could coordinate to bias forecasts of renewable energy output, moving wholesale electricity prices and leaving whoever is on the other side of the trade holding the loss. And at the far end, a state actor or saboteur could manipulate one or many stations to set off an early warning system or even keep one silent when it should sound. Step by step, the risk grows, from fraud to compromised…
[ad_1] Today, information about perimenopause is more prevalent and accessible than ever. If you’re a woman in your 40s and you’re not feeling 100%, chances are there’ll be someone online ready to tell you you’re in perimenopause. And that you might want to start spending your money on blood tests, apps, and supplements or demanding hormone replacement therapy. But as regular readers might have guessed by this point, it’s not that simple. Perimenopause tends to start around the age of 46 or 47. It’s during this time that many women start to experience some symptoms like hot flashes, irregular or…
[ad_1] Despite what some marketers will claim, there is no test for perimenopause. That doesn’t mean women should have to put up with symptoms, but treatment suggestions often lack scientific evidence. And not all the symptoms women experience in midlife can be blamed on hormones. Read the full story on the hype and misinformation surrounding perimenopause. —Jessica Hamzelou This article is from The Spark, our weekly climate tech newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 China’s AI gap with the…
[ad_1] The original lawsuit was filed in 2023 and claimed Twitter hosted thousands of cases of copyright infringement. Donny Hery/Shutterstock A three-years-long legal battle between X and major music publishers has quietly come to an end. In court documents filed by both X and a group of music publishers, both sides opted to dismiss their opposing lawsuits while not disclosing the terms of the settlement (via Reuters). The feud began in 2023 when a group of music publishers led by the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) sued the social media platform, which was still known as Twitter at the time. The $250 million…
[ad_1] Up to 32 employees were affected by the studio’s recent decision. Layoffs in the video game industry just keep coming. In a post on social media, ZA/UM Studio, the developer and publisher of Disco Elysium and more recently, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, announced that it “served redundancy or at-risk notices impacting up to 32 of our colleagues across all departments at ZA/UM Studio.” The news of the layoffs comes only a few months after the studio’s latest game was released in May. ZA/UM Studio attributed the layoffs to the weak “commercial performance” of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, which “has not…
[ad_1] Apple may try to focus ads in Apple Maps on local businesses and points of interest, based on new advertising guidelines the company published this week. The company announced plans to introduce ads to its maps app in March 2026, but hasn’t shared an exact timeline for the launch other than this summer in the US and Canada. The new rules could be a hint that when the business launches, ads in Apple Maps could be meaningfully different from the company’s competitors. The ad guidelines include several rules around prohibited content that are similar to Apple’s App Review guidelines.…
[ad_1] The app also offers workouts, which auto-adjust the speed to your pace via sensors under the belt. It felt awkward, since I couldn’t figure out how to slow the pace without the device totally stopping. You switch between modes within the app or on the display, and you can stop and start the machine using the app or remote. I like to use the machine in manual mode, and I tend to use the app more than the remote, because the remote connectivity is inconsistent.The machine feels like it will have a long lifespan. Its heft makes it harder…
[ad_1] The app also offers workouts, which auto-adjust the speed to your pace via sensors under the belt. It felt awkward, since I couldn’t figure out how to slow the pace without the device totally stopping. You switch between modes within the app or on the display, and you can stop and start the machine using the app or remote. I like to use the machine in manual mode, and I tend to use the app more than the remote, because the remote connectivity is inconsistent.The machine feels like it will have a long lifespan. Its heft makes it harder…