If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED it’s been a busy week for Apple. Following the announcement of a new M3-powered iPad Air and a new base model iPad (11th generation) with an A16 chip

The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The big aim of the EU’s flagship competition reform — which came into force last spring — was to level the digital playing field by forcing platform giants into fairer dealing with rivals and

Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt within constrained or dynamic environments. Andrew G. Barto, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Richard S. Sutton, a professor at

Fossil gas is largely supplied to the EU by foreign authoritarian regimes (Norway being an exception), and biomass use at the industrial scale destroys forests and undermines the EU’s land sink. Increasingly, however, super-efficient, domestic and decarbonised heat generation is coming online in Europe in the form of large heat pumps powering district heating networks.  

Indonesian CSO Pusaka offer insight into grassroots-level impacts to encourage the EU to use the EUDR and other trade instruments to help.  Despite the political upheaval surrounding the EU Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR), civil society in producer countries hope that such trade rules may encourage outside oversight and pressure, offering help in redressing fraught situations where

Key Takeaways Thor Industries blamed “continued macroeconomic headwinds” for worse-than-expected results and guidance. The RV maker posted a second-quarter fiscal 2025 loss, while analysts were looking for a profit. Sales of motorized vehicles in North America and RVs in Europe sank. Shares of Thor Industries (THO) tumbled 15% after the recreational vehicle (RV) manufacturer reported

KEY TAKEAWAYS Lawsuits and budget recommendations under President Donald Trump’s administration have made the future of federal student loans uncertain. The limbo that student loan borrowers are facing has paved the way for major changes to the federal student loan ecosystem. Investopedia asked three student loan experts what the ideal student loan system would look