AI & RoboticsNews

The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

January 1, 2026
True Ventures co-founder Jon Callaghan doesn’t think we’ll be using smartphones the way we do now in five years – and maybe not at all in 10. For a venture capitalist whose firm has had some big winners over its two decades – from consumer brands like Fitbit, Ring, and Peloton, to enterprise software makers HashiCorp and Duo Security – that’s more than armchair…
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NewsPhotography

Astrophotography in January 2026: what to shoot in the night sky this month

January 1, 2026
January brings long, cold nights rich with astrophotography targets. The month opens with a full Wolf Moon, followed quickly by the Quadrantid meteor shower peaking, albeit under bright moonlight. Jupiter reaches opposition on 10 January, dominating the night sky and offering planetary imagers their best views of the gas giant this year, before a valuable dark-sky window for deep-sky imagers…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

This $7,000 mini EV 'mibot' is already a hit in Japan as deliveries kick off

January 1, 2026
Meet mibot, the $7,000 tiny EV that’s about take Japan by storm. It may be small, but the mini EV is already seeing strong interest with the first models now being delivered. The $7,000 mibot mini EV is out for delivery It’s no secret that Japan isn’t really known for its appreciation of electric vehicles, with Toyota, Honda, and Nissan among the biggest laggards in the transition to…
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DefenseNews

A year of strikes: US military operations surge under Trump

January 1, 2026
President Donald Trump has presided over a rapid surge of U.S. military activity abroad since returning to the Oval Office. In the first year of his second term, he has authorized a series of strikes ranging from the unprecedented use of bunker-buster bombs against Iran’s…
DefenseNews

Europe’s 2025 defense winners include Saab, Rheinmetall; FCAS falters

January 1, 2026
PARIS — With Europe spending record amounts on defense in 2025 on everything from ammunition to battle tanks, air defenses and naval ships, local industry winners included Germany’s Rheinmetall, Sweden’s Saab and the United Kingdom’s BAE Systems. France’s Naval Group had a less successful year, missing out on several contracts in 2025, while a joint effort by France, Germany and Spain to…
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