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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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Meta’s subscription push lifts Instagram in-app purchase revenue 475 percent

New data shows Meta One subscriptions driving a 475 percent jump in Instagram's daily in-app revenue since launch.
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GM heads into Q3 earnings after two 2026 guidance raises

GM reported Q3 2026 results Tuesday after raising full-year profit guidance twice, even as US vehicle sales fell 6 percent.
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A Kentucky plant built a compact hybrid SUV so fast it sold 27,774 units in a single June, and that pushed one automaker’s electrified mix to a record 61 percent

Toyota's RAV4 Hybrid posted an all-time best-ever June, pushing Toyota division's electrified sales mix to a record 61.4 ...
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A new Kindle Colorsoft reads text at 300 pixels per inch but drops to 150 for any color on the exact same screen, and the redesign hides that gap

Amazon's new Kindle Colorsoft reads at 300ppi in black and white but halves to 150ppi for color, a tradeoff baked into its ...
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Holiday flight prices climb 15 percent as travelers rebook strategy

Expedia data shows holiday flight prices up 15 percent domestically this year, pushing travelers toward earlier booking and ...
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A silicon wafer 28 millimeters wider than the old standard is now spreading across solar factory floors, but plants that bet on the square format are stuck retooling lines

A rectangular silicon wafer called G12R is reshaping solar panel manufacturing, squeezing more power from the same rooftop ...
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A Dongguan factory packages 70 percent of one chipmaker’s output, so a single customs dispute idled a Japanese automaker’s assembly lines within weeks

Cheap transistors from one dominant supplier halted car production worldwide, exposing how fragile the supply chain behind ...
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A Minnesota battery deal locked in 30 gigawatt hours of iron and air storage, and the pairing became the largest energy storage project by capacity ever announced worl…

A 300 MW, 30 GWh iron-air battery deal in Minnesota is now the largest energy storage project by capacity ever announced.
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A seven year old electric sedan once risked a repair bill bigger than the car, but today’s popular electric models now show battery swaps starting near 4,000 dollars

Out of warranty EV battery replacement costs now span $4,000 to $50,000 by model, as cheaper cell chemistry reshapes the used ...
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A folder of free code sitting inside nearly every website costs $4 billion to rebuild, but researchers found companies would otherwise spend $8.8 trillion recreating it them…

A Harvard study puts a $4.15 billion price tag on rebuilding open source code, but values its economic worth to companies at ...
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73 percent of parents say they text a grown child weekly, but fathers text barely half as often daily as mothers do

Pew Research data shows texting has become the main way parents stay close to adult children, with a wide gap between mothers ...