Morning Overview – Empowering Your Morning with Tomorrow’s Technology

Electric Vehicles

8 electric SUVs and what they cost to start in 2026

Sticker prices for electric SUVs have spread out enough that shoppers can now choose between a budget crossover and a three-row family hauler without leaving the EV aisle. Starting prices swing from the low thirties to the mid seventies depending on range, badge and cargo space, and a name-brand no longer guarantees the cheapest sticker. […]

By Kade Winslow

Energy & Climate

Earth just logged its hottest August on record, and September is running warmer still

By Everett Sloane

Archeology

A new Spinosaurus species turned up in an ancient river system, a first for the giant predator

By BeckhamLangford

A carnivorous sponge nicknamed the ‘death ball’ was found 12,000 feet down near Antarctica

By BeckhamLangford

9 vehicles that traded a V8 for a smaller turbocharged engine

By Kade Winslow

A brand of utility lighters was recalled for failing federal child-safety rules

By Cassian Holt

An experimental compound kept Alzheimer’s protein clumps from forming and extended lifespan in mice

By BeckhamLangford

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Science

A carnivorous sponge nicknamed the ‘death ball’ was found 12,000 feet down near Antarctica

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Organic moringa powder was flagged for salmonella and taken off shelves

By BeckhamLangford

Science

A giant deep-sea isopod nicknamed ‘Darth Vader’ is a new species

By BeckhamLangford

Science

A second Maya city hidden for 2,500 years has surfaced from the forests of Campeche

By BeckhamLangford

Technology

Microsoft admits its September Windows 11 update is breaking backups and blocking some PCs from booting

By Cassian Holt

Technology

The FCC just cut 14 phone companies off the U.S. network for funneling illegal robocalls

By Cassian Holt

Technology

Rowenta recalled its cordless vacuums after the battery in the handle overheated and ignited

By Cassian Holt

Military

Nobody can currently prove whether a nuclear weapon is hidden in orbit

By Rowan Calder

Military

A 60-year ban on nuclear weapons in space has never been enforceable

By Rowan Calder

Military

The Vela Incident still splits analysts who think a satellite caught a secret nuclear test

By Rowan Calder

AI

A federal bill to stop AI firms from training on kids’ chatbot conversations just cleared its first Senate committee

By Dorian Maddox

AI

OpenAI’s new teen version of ChatGPT can alert a parent, and child-safety experts say it may be more PR than protection

By Dorian Maddox

AI

People are unknowingly publishing their private Meta AI chats to a public feed

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Google switched Gemini on inside Gmail by default, letting it read your emails unless you turn it off

By Dorian Maddox

Transportation

Zoox recalled robotaxi software after one vehicle became confused by heavy smoke

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Federal regulators ordered autonomous-vehicle companies to stop interfering with first responders

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Uber and Waymo quietly ended their robotaxi partnership in Phoenix

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Drone-delivery startup Manna plans a Tulsa factory expected to employ 1,000 people

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Waymo’s driverless taxis are rolling into four more cities, including Las Vegas and Denver

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Tesla is now running robotaxis with nobody in the driver’s seat in four US cities

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Zoox pulled the wraps off a robotaxi with no steering wheel after half a million test rides

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Ohio evacuated a town after a train derailed and threatened a hydrochloric-acid leak

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

A second town was told to shelter in place after a freight train jumped the tracks

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Urgent ‘do not drive’ recalls have jumped 65% since 2024

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Waymo is bringing driverless rides to Denver, its first snow-and-ice city

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Tesla switched on driverless robotaxis in Miami with no safety driver as hurricane season peaks

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Regulators demanded a fix after robotaxis kept driving into fire and flood scenes

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Regulators gave robotaxi makers one month to fix a dangerous emergency-scene blind spot

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Waymo robotaxis stalled, blocked streets, and one drove over fireworks in San Francisco

By Rowan Calder

Transportation

Honda recalled about 99,000 vehicles over a sensor that could fire the airbags without warning

By BeckhamLangford

Energy & Climate

Earth just logged its hottest August on record, and September is running warmer still

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Big Tech is signing its first direct deals to buy nuclear power, reshaping how AI gets its electricity

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Four U.S. startups have fired up their first small nuclear reactors, aiming them straight at power-hungry AI data centers

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

New research says a Cascadia quake could drop the Pacific Northwest coast by up to 6.5 feet and flood thousands of homes at once

By Everett Sloane