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A half-ton pickup advertises 13,200 pounds of towing on the showroom sticker, but its real payload often leaves barely 1,500 pounds before the hitch even loads up

Pickup trucks advertise huge towing numbers, but payload limits and tongue weight often cap real capacity far below the ...
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A free quantum computer account hands new users 10 minutes of real hardware time a month, but the next step up costs $96 for every single minute

IBM's free quantum computing plan gives 10 minutes a month, but the paid tier jumps to $96 per minute, a steep hidden cost ...
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A Virginia rate filing pegs a $5.52 monthly discount for every household using 1,000 kilowatt-hours, so regulators want the largest power users covering that cost thems…

Virginia regulators found shifting grid costs to a new data center rate class could cut average household electric bills by ...
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Canada auto tariff deadline nears with no US trade deal in sight

A 50% US tariff on Canadian autos looms January 1 as trade talks stall, with no deal expected before midterms.
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Barcelona supercomputer opens AI tools to Spanish startups

Barcelona Supercomputing Center's AI Factory Accelerator exits its pilot, giving startups sovereign compute and NVIDIA ...
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A tablet at checkout flashes 20, 25 and 30 percent instead of 15, and a 13 million ride taxi study found tips rose but far more riders left nothing at all

A 13 million ride taxi study reveals how tip screen defaults raise average tips but also push more customers to leave nothing at all.
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Illinois cuts Nicor Gas rate hike request by 63 percent

Illinois regulators approved a settlement slashing Nicor Gas's rate hike request by 63%, cutting the fixed monthly charge from $21.30 to $15.
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A backyard geothermal loop sunk feet from the next one, and shared boreholes slowly chill the ground so output fades for decades, engineers find

Ground source heat pumps promise endless free heat, but dense borehole fields can chill the surrounding earth and cut output ...
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A strip mall lot built for 200 cars sits nearly empty most of the day, and economists find America’s surplus parking now costs over a trillion dollars yearly

Transportation researchers find the US carries roughly five parking spaces per vehicle, a hidden cost topping a trillion ...
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A phone flashes a weekly report showing 4 hours and 12 minutes of use, but new research finds checking that number rarely shrinks how much people scroll

Screen time tracking apps are sold as the fix for phone overuse, but research finds the awareness they create rarely cuts ...
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A Lucid Air recall touched 27,185 cars for a wiring fire risk, but a wireless update alone had already fixed 20,719 of them before a single owner saw a dealer

A Lucid Air recall over an exterior lighting fire risk shows how wireless software updates are quietly reshaping how car ...
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An AI lab’s code merges jumped from 2,500 a day last spring to more than 30,000 by September, and the surge forced engineers to replace Git across its entire codebase

An AI company's daily code merges hit 30,000, a record pace that forced engineers to build a replacement for Git in just five ...