The first electric GTI is finally here. Volkswagen unveiled the ID. Polo GTI, a sporty 222-horsepower EV hot hatch that will start at around $45,000.
Volkswagen ID. Polo GTI debuts as first electric hot hatch
50 years after launching the first Golf GTI in 1976, Volkswagen is taking the iconic badge into a new era with the ID. Polo GTI.
The ID. Polo is “100% electric and 100% GTI,” Volkswagen…
Tesla has quietly unredacted all 17 of its autonomous driving crash narratives filed with NHTSA, revealing for the first time what actually happened in each incident. The automaker had been the only ADS operator to fully redact its crash reports, marking every single…
Uber is publicly trashing its robotaxi partner Waymo while simultaneously investing more than $10 billion to build its own autonomous vehicle fleet with Rivian, Lucid, and Nuro.
The ride-hailing giant’s executives have spent the last few months taking direct shots at…
LAOAG, Philippines — At one point during Exercise Balikatan 2026 in the Philippines, one regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps had personnel strewn across 17 locations in the archipelago, giving forces a chance to flex their muscle in dispersed, expeditionary operations.
Held from Apr. 20 to May 8, Balikatan was a good testing ground for the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, or 3rd MLR.
This agile…
House lawmakers and government watchdogs expressed skepticism Wednesday about the Defense Department’s ability to produce a clean financial audit by a Dec. 31, 2028, statutory deadline.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on the DoD…
RIGA, Latvia — Exercising in Latvia’s dense pine and birch forests this week, local troops found themselves in an unfair fight against a new enemy: unmanned ground vehicles.
As NATO tries to keep pace with fast-changing drone warfare, the alliance used Latvia’s Crystal…
You might be inclined to blame insufficient graphics performance for a Windows system’s failure to hit its limit during gaming. But often it’s memory and file access that slow things down. This is precisely where a so-called “dev drive” can help. This refers to a volume introduced by Microsoft based on ReFS (Resilient File System).
A dev drive is optimized for many simultaneous accesses to…
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls developer Arc System Works recently revealed that the fighting game will have an Episode Mode — a story mode aimed at casual players — told in an interactive comic book style. Various outlets originally reported that this Episode Mode…
GTA 6 Fans Go Into Overdrive Once Again Amid Potential Leaked Pre-Order Date and More Trailer 3 Rumors
May 15, 2026
GTA 6 fans have gone into overdrive — as they have done so many times recently amid the wait for Trailer 3 — after reports emerged online that Best Buy had potentially leaked the game’s pre-order date.
We’ve been here before, many times. Some fans actually believe in…
Marathon Season 2 Detailed
May 15, 2026
Marathon developer Bungie has unveiled what, exactly, will change as Season 2 begins, teasing “liberated chaos” as players “know a fresh start is just around the corner” when update 1.0.9 drops next Tuesday (May 19).
“Runners continue to pillage what isn’t theirs across Tau Ceti, and the UESC is growing tired of their criminal activities,” Bungie teased. “As Season 1 comes to a…
