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55% of Americans cook at home more often as the “Brown Bag Economy” takes hold in 2026

A Ramsey Solutions Q2 study of 1,004 US adults finds 55% are cooking at home more and Americans are reshaping everyday ...
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NREL-led study puts five-state distribution grid upgrade cost for EV charging at up to $2.3 billion; managed charging can cut that by more than half

A DOE-backed NREL study estimates the US needs up to $127 billion to build 28 million EV chargers by 2030, as managed ...
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A 205-kilowatt-hour battery in a full-size electric pickup pushed its range to 1,059 miles on one charge over seven Michigan days, and the figure more than doubles t…

A GM engineering team drove a stock 2026 Silverado EV Max Range Work Truck 1,059.2 miles on one charge, shattering the ...
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A full-size electric pickup covered 1,059 miles across metro Detroit on one charge last summer, and the world record it claimed beat the previous holder by more than 30…

A 2026 Chevrolet Silverado EV Max Range Work Truck drove 1,059.2 miles on a single charge near Detroit, shattering the ...
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With nearly 7 million electric cars on US roads, Rivian and General Motors upgraded their grid integration this June, and managed charging can cut expected distributio…

Two US automakers moved in June 2026 to make their EV fleets dispatchable grid assets, and managed charging programs cut ...
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Bosch begins silicon carbide chip sample production at California plant backed by $225 million CHIPS Act agreement

Bosch has started SiC semiconductor sample production at its Roseville, California fab, backed by $225M in federal CHIPS ...
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The Pixel smartphone line drops its 128GB floor and reaches 1TB across every Pro model simultaneously for the first time in its ten-year history, powered by a chip bui…

The Pixel 11 Pro hits 1TB of on-device storage for the first time in the line's history, announced August 12, powered by the ...
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Workers who shade simple shapes while listening recall 29 percent more of what was said, and the science behind the scribble is more surprising than most managers rea…

Scribbling shapes in a meeting boosts information recall by 29%, a study in Applied Cognitive Psychology found. Here's the ...
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Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash with stronger agentic coding at $0.75 per million tokens

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, its third Flash model in six weeks, targeting agentic coding workflows at $0 ...
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A hands-free driving feature installed in roughly 1.2 million vehicles worldwide only works on 130,000 pre-mapped highway miles, and a $495-a-year subscription bill ar…

Ford BlueCruise is marketed as hands-free highway freedom, but it only operates on 130,000 mapped miles and charges $495 a ...
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Ford BlueCruise operates on 97 percent of controlled-access highways in the US and Canada, and federal investigators found its eye-tracking camera registered neither o…

Federal investigators found Ford's BlueCruise eye-tracking missed two distracted drivers before fatal crashes, and the system ...
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Apple’s first foldable iPhone joins the iPhone 18 Pro at a confirmed September 9 event that skips the standard model

Apple is set to unveil the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and its first foldable iPhone this September, while the standard ...