AI & RoboticsNews

Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping

October 30, 2025
When Phia‘s founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni decided to build an AI startup, they targeted an area they understood well: online shopping. The founders, who met at Stanford when they were randomly paired up as roommates, understood e-commerce because they had spent hours upon hours trying to find the right items to expand their wardrobe. And AI, they realized, had the potential to help…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Kia's electric van breaks the Guinness World Record, driving 430+ miles carrying a full load

October 30, 2025
Kia’s electric van, the PV5, set a new Guinness World Record after driving over 430 miles on a single charge… with its max payload. Kia’s electric van sets a new Guinness World Record Who said electric vans couldn’t get the job done? Kia’s electric van just broke the Guinness World Record for the greatest distance travelled by a light-duty battery-powered electric van with maximum…
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DefenseNews

The US draws down some troops on NATO’s eastern flank

October 30, 2025
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States has informed its NATO allies that it will scale back its troop presence along Europe’s eastern border with Ukraine as it focuses on security priorities elsewhere in the world, Romania’s defense ministry said on Wednesday. The U.S. Army…
DefenseNews

Carrier’s move to South America leaves Mideast, Europe with none

October 30, 2025
President Donald Trump’s decision to shift the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America in his campaign against drug cartels is pulling the ship out of the Mediterranean Sea at a time when a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been threatened by new strikes in Gaza. The U.S. is set to be in the fairly unusual position of having only a single aircraft carrier deployed…
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ComputersNews

Your PC might not run Windows 11’s 26H1 update

October 30, 2025
A new rumor suggests that Microsoft will offer a new Windows 11 26H1 feature release early next year — but chances are you won’t be able to get it. According a to a rumor by noted tipster PhantomofEarth, Microsoft will treat the Windows 11 2026 releases in much the same way that it handled 2025: features will be rolled out in a Windows 11 26H1 release to PCs, but only “enabled” in the…
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