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A Korean automaker’s US arm moved 450,568 vehicles in the first half of 2026, setting the best opening six months in its American history while hybrid models hit all-time ...

A Korean automaker sold 450,568 vehicles in the US in the first half of 2026, an all-time first-half record powered by a 71% ...
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Hyundai’s hybrid lineup surged 71 percent in a single quarter this year, and its US first-half sales reached 450,000 units for the first time in company history

A Korean automaker sold 450,568 vehicles in the US in the first half of 2026, an all-time record, as hybrid sales surged 71% ...
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78% of Americans say children should learn a second language, but many schools struggle to deliver it

A Pew Research Center survey of 3,507 US adults finds 78% believe children should learn a language beyond English, yet only ...
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YouTube Eliminated Its View Threshold for Long-Form Videos on August 24, 2026, and Public View Counts Are Now Climbing Without Any Change in How Many Peopl…

YouTube changed how it counts a public view on August 24, 2026. One frame of playback now counts. Here's what that means for ...
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Trump’s Section 232 proclamation sets price floors on polysilicon supply chain and a 15% tariff on downstream solar derivatives

President Trump's August 6 proclamation imposes minimum import prices and a 15% tariff on polysilicon, wafers, cells and ...
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A Georgia solar factory hitting 16,700 panels a day makes its own ingots and wafers on the same floor, and the US cell supply gap it narrows sat at 3 gigawatts against n…

A Cartersville, Georgia solar factory began making cells, wafers and ingots under one roof in 2026, closing a critical gap in ...
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IBM Nighthawk r2 runs 100,000 quantum circuits per second, hitting a key 2026 roadmap target ahead of schedule

IBM's Nighthawk r2 processor executes over 100,000 quantum circuits per second — 25 times faster than Heron — and clears ...
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A seat belt in nearly 420,000 full-size SUVs is sold as the device that saves you in a crash, but summer heat silently fires it early and leaves the belt frozen solid

Nearly 420,000 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs are recalled because heat degrades the seat belt pretensioner propellant, locking the belt rigid before a crash occurs.
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Nearly two-thirds of US online shoppers now use AI tools to pick what they buy, Ryder study finds

A new Ryder benchmark study of 1,160 US shoppers finds 64% use AI-assisted tools to discover and evaluate products, reshaping ...
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Unused app subscriptions sitting on American phones carry a verified $15.5 billion annual drain, and nearly half of users have been charged after forgetting to cancel …

Americans waste $15.5 billion a year on forgotten app subscriptions, and a 2026 survey confirms 70% were locked in the moment ...
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DOE awards $500 million to seven battery supply chain projects to cut foreign mineral reliance

The DOE selected seven projects for $500 million in battery manufacturing, critical mineral processing and recycling to ...
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Phones buzzing more than 100 times a day steal 7 seconds of clear thinking per alert, and new research finds how often you check matters far more than total screen time

A study in Computers in Human Behavior finds each phone notification steals roughly 7 seconds of focused thinking, and ...