Summary Kyte, a San Francisco car-rental startup founded in 2017 that built its brand on app-driven, door-to-door deliveries, has shut down after years of rapid expansion followed by mounting financial…
Electricity Prices Are Climbing More Than Twice as Fast as Inflation Summary Recent reporting summarised by Slashdot (sourcing NPR) shows US electricity prices have risen at more than twice the…
Small, affordable undergraduate research programmes changed my career and strengthen US science. Why cut them? Summary Dan Seaton recounts how a small, summer undergraduate research opportunity — part of a…
Why strong mentorship was essential for my career success in science Summary Professor JoAnn Trejo describes her journey from a third-generation Mexican American family of farm workers to a biomedical…
Battery prices are falling, so why are electric cars still so expensive? Summary This Nature Comment by economists from Harvard examines why electric-vehicle (EV) prices in the United States have…
China’s hydropower megaproject breaks ground Summary On 19 July, Chinese premier Li Qiang announced the start of construction on what is billed as the world’s largest hydropower station, to be…
Britain targets Kyrgyz crypto networks aiding Kremlin with sanctions Summary The UK has imposed a new tranche of sanctions targeting Kyrgyz financial institutions and cryptocurrency networks accused of helping Russia…
PinePhone Pro canned in pursuit of RISC-V business Summary Pine64 has confirmed it is discontinuing the PinePhone Pro — its higher-end open smartphone aimed at developers and FOSS enthusiasts —…
How low can colo go, asks JLL, as datacenter vacancy rates near zero Summary JLL’s North America Datacenter Report for H1 2025 finds colocation vacancy at a record-low 2.3% (down…
Summary The Python Software Foundation (PSF), with JetBrains, published its eighth Python Developer Survey using late-2024 data and roughly 29–30k responses. The results show continued growth in Python usage—many newcomers…
