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BYD has delivered its 100,000th new energy vehicle in the UK market, achieving a 5% share of the overall UK automotive market in approximately three years. The company has also accelerated the deployment of charging infrastructure, with its first Super Charging Station in Uxbridge, West London, now operational. BYD aims to build 300 Super Charging Stations across the UK by the end of 2026, covering major cities and transportation corridors. The company's performance has placed it first [...]

Google has confirmed the discontinuation of its Nest Mini and Nest Audio smart speakers, citing the introduction of the Google Home speaker as the replacement. The Nest Mini, launched in 2019, offered a budget-friendly option for Google Assistant, while the Nest Audio, released in 2021, provided improved audio quality. Existing devices will continue to receive software updates and support, but new hardware production has ended. The move leaves Google's ecosystem without a cheaper entry point, with the [...]

The Mayor of Baltimore has joined the chorus of critics urging Apple to reconsider closing its Towson store, which is set to shut down on June 20. The store, the first unionized Apple Store, is located in a failing mall and has limited options for its approximately 100 employees. The mayor and others are demanding that Apple either allow employees to transfer to nearby stores, open a new store in the area, or keep the Towson store [...]

Neoen Australia has signed virtual battery agreements with energy retailers Nectr and SmartestEnergy for Stages 2 and 3 of the Western Downs Battery in Queensland. The agreements will provide up to 2-hour and 4-hour capacity services to Nectr and SmartestEnergy, respectively. This brings the total number of virtual battery customers at the Western Downs site to five, with Neoen retaining ownership and operations of the physical asset. The facility, located in the Western Downs region, is expanding [...]

Outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned that the company's products, including the iPhone, may become more expensive due to a global shortage of memory chips caused by AI's insatiable demand for hardware. Cook described the situation as "unsustainable" and stated that price increases are "unavoidable," despite efforts to absorb the fourfold increase in chip costs since last year. The company is expected to launch its next iPhone in September, potentially allowing it to announce increased prices.

PsiQuantum has begun constructing its utility-scale quantum computing facility at Moreton Bay, Australia, where it will deploy the world's first fault-tolerant quantum computer. The site will be developed in phases, incorporating major infrastructure, and is expected to support Australia's quantum ecosystem through workforce development, research collaboration, and high-skilled job creation. The project is a significant milestone in the country's quantum computing journey, with potential applications in medicine, materials science, energy, and other industries.

A Tesla Model Y equipped with Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised technology helped save the life of its driver, John Brandt, during a severe heart attack on November 15, 2025. Brandt, 55, was driving on Interstate 20 when he experienced chest pain and called his son, Jack, who remotely rerouted the vehicle to the nearest hospital using the Tesla app. The car responded immediately, navigating to the emergency room entrance. John received life-saving treatment and is now recovering

Loft Orbital's YAM-9 spacecraft successfully demonstrated the first publicly disclosed execution of a vision-language model in orbit. Aboard the spacecraft, Google DeepMind's Gemma 3 performed natural language queries, classified Earth imagery, and produced plain-English summaries without transmitting raw pixels to the ground. This achievement marks a significant shift in the value layer of Earth observation, moving from ground-based processing to onboard inference capabilities. The model, running on an Nvidia Jetson Orin AGX graphics processing unit, utilized a [...]