EV prices aren't following the 'law of used cars,' analyst says — what it means for buyers and sellers

Tesla EVs recharge at a Tesla Supercharger station on July 2, 2026, in South Pasadena, California.

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Prices for used electric vehicles are doing something unusual — and the dynamic poses both good and bad news for consumers, according to automotive experts.

Falls in whale sightings, rare seabirds appearing—is something unusual happening in the Southern Ocean?

In late June, whale watchers in southwest Western Australia sounded the alarm. They had seen far fewer humpback whales at a time when they normally migrate up from the Southern Ocean to calve and feed. Numbers were 60% below normal.

Should Batman: Caped Crusader Morph Into Batman and Robin: Caped Crusaders?

This article contains spoilers for Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2, which is streaming Prime Video now.

Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader, the latest animated iteration of The Dark Knight, has been a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, you have the legendary Bruce Timm essentially revisiting one of his most famous co-creations — that would be Batman: The Animated Series — with fresh eyes, giving it the more mature and modern sheen he had hoped to infuse the show with back in the day. On the other hand, that take has led to some extremely odd choices in character adaptation, and a mostly deadly serious tone and slow pace that have done the stranger plot choices no favors. But there is one aspect of the series that was a standout in the first season, crops up again in Season 2’s best episode, and points to how Caped Crusader can ape The Animated Series’s own path and vastly improve its own going into a potential third season. That aspect? Robin.

Feebas and Milotic join Pokémon Pokopia in new limited-time event

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The 'Fetch Scales for Feebas' event will let Pokopia players collect new decorations

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Ancient stardust grains were seeds for the earliest solids in the solar system

How did the first solids that made up planets, moons and asteroids form from the "hot soup" that characterized our solar system's earliest years? New research from Caltech analyzing pieces of a meteorite has found that, just as snowflakes crystallize around grains of dust, ancient stardust grains left over from long-gone suns may have been the seeds of our solar system's earliest solids.

Tom Holland Explains Why 'Creepy' Body Horror Ideas for Spider-Man: Brand New Day Didn't Make It Into the Film

Tom Holland pitched some ideas for Spider-Man: Brand New Day that would've pushed the film into body horror.

In a new interview with Josh Horowitz, Holland noted that he was brought into the writer's room for Brand New Day and allowed to pitch ideas. Early on, the creative team explored the idea of Peter Parker reckoning with his powers evolving via organic webs, sharpened senses, and heightened strength and aggression. Holland initially wanted to take it a bit further, though.

Meloni Floats 'Extraordinary Measures’ As Spain’s Ceuta Overwhelmed With Migrants From Morocco

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Thousands of Moroccan migrants crossed a Spanish border into the tiny territory of Ceuta on Thursday, overwhelming local leaders who have asked Spain to declare a state of emergency—as videos of the migrants flood social media, outraging right-wing politicians and activists.

Gears of War: E-Day devs are embracing 'old-school' multiplayer in 2026: 'No battle pass, no tour of duty, no gimmicks, no bullsh*t'

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The Coalition is finally talking about the multiplayer half of Gears of War: E-Day, and its pitch is a bit different from other big-budget multiplayer shooters of the moment.

The RAM Crisis Is Getting So Bad, AMD Is Bringing Back 4GB Graphics Cards

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It's no secret that memory prices have exploded in the last year, and it's causing everything using the stuff to go up in price. But now, seemingly to combat the rising prices and give people an option they can actually afford, AMD has launched a new graphics card, the Radeon RX 9050.

LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’

LinkedIn is taking aim at the “AI slop” — low-quality, artificially generated content — filling its feed. On Thursday, the company announced that it’s adding a new feature to let users click a “seems like AI slop” button when someone’s post appears to have been written with AI.