The best smartwatches for 2025

Smartwatches do more than just track your steps and deliver phone alerts to your wrist. The best smartwatches go even further, giving you the ability to pay for a cup of coffee, take calls and connect [...]

‘Electrotech’ can cut Europe’s reliance on fossil fuel imports, report finds

Europe can dramatically cut its dependence on imported fossil fuels by adopting electricity-based technologies, according to a new report. Electric vehicles, heat pumps, and renewables could cut glob [...]

In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

AI Is Helping to Keep Fossil Fuels Alive

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the fastest-growing industries, requiring a lot of power to run. Server hosting, training and storing information, among other essential tasks, contribute to thi [...]

The companies burning the most electricity are buying carbon credits from genetically engineered trees

Octopus Energy Generation has committed $500 million to Living Carbon, a San Francisco biotech company that plants trees on degraded land to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The deal, announ [...]

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]

World’s biggest sand battery to heat Finnish town without fossil fuels

A small town in Finland is about to ditch fossil fuels in its heating network thanks to a sand-filled energy storage tank the size of a house. Finnish startup Polar Night Energy recently turned on the [...]

Control Resonant steps into a larger world that's inspired by Neon Genesis Evangelion

Remedy Entertainment's Control is a bizarre yet totally captivating action game that feels like Die Hard by way of David Lynch. InControl: Resonant, players step into the role of the original gam [...]

The nine-armed octopus and the oddities of the cephalopod nervous system

A mix of autonomous and top-down control manage the octopus's limbs. [...]