• Get 50 percent off plans for the holiday season

    December 29, 2025

    If cleaning up your digital life is on your New Year’s resolution list, we’ve got good news: 1Password is offering half off its subscription plans now through December 30. This includes the Individual and Families plans. That brings the price of the Individual plan down to $24 for a year and the Families plan down to $36 for a year. The plans are nearly identical, but the Families plan accommodates five additional people. These discounts are only available to new customers and the prices expire after the year, so set a reminder to cancel or reassess. 1Password This provider topped…

  • Why the electrical grid needs more software

    December 29, 2025

    One of the nicest comments people have made about the electrical grid was … nothing. The grid works best when it fades into the background.  That low-profile status has changed in recent years as fires in California and freezes in Texas raised awareness of the electrical grid. But it was in 2025, when the electrical grid — and concerns about demand, supply, pricing, and the strain on natural resources — moved into the spotlight. And a new batch of startups have emerged with a software-as-a-solution pitch. Electricity rates are up 13% in this U.S. this year driven by an AI…

  • Mother Slams EY’s Toxic Work Culture Over Daughter’s Death By Overwork: Internet Demand ‘Right To Disconnect’ In India

    December 29, 2025

    A 26-year-old employee at one of the Big Four’s Ernest & Young’s India’s Pune offices succumbed to stress from overwork. ‘The pressure became too much for her’: Mother blames ‘work stress’ for 26-year-old EY employee’s death#workpressure #WorkLifeBalance #EY https://t.co/KCt2vBQz7S By @ShDivyanshi pic.twitter.com/iihrq8EgvP — Business Insider India🇮🇳 (@BiIndia) September 18, 2024 The diseased employee’s mother wrote to the EY India boss, Rajiv Memani, a heart wrenching letter urging to take reformative measures to ensure the company follows its ethos and principles as stated in its human rights statement. Anita Augustine remarked in her emotional mail that her young daughter Anna Sebastian…

  • 2026 Toyota HiAce review | CarExpert

    December 29, 2025

    In the commercial van world, it seems like there’s nothing that can quite match the might of the Toyota HiAce. Even with the arrival of new competitors and the consistent turnover of updates for high-profile competitors in the past year, the HiAce continues to be Australia’s favourite van. Toyota has delivered more than 10,000 examples this year, dwarfing the 3500-odd sales posted by the more modern, runner-up Ford Transit Custom in the same time. Toyota has also updated the HiAce to better align it with the times. Headline changes include a new digital instrument cluster and adaptive cruise control, while…

  • Ford doesn’t want to be full-line manufacturer or purchase another automaker

    December 29, 2025

    Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, is doubling down on the company’s strategy of utes, vans and emotional vehicles, as well as its policy of partnerships over acquisitions. In an interview with La Nacion at the automaker’s plant in Pacheco in Argentina, Mr Farley was asked about his childhood in Buenos Aires, where he was born and lived until nine as his dad ran the local Citibank outpost. He also talked about his 17 years at Toyota, where he helped to launch the original Yaris in Europe. After joining Ford in 2007, he agitated for Ford to launch the European-developed Fiesta…

  • Rainbow Six Siege servers are back online after shutting down in response to Marketplace hacks

    December 29, 2025

    Ubisoft had to shut down Rainbow Six Siege‘s servers and roll back transactions, a situation that came from a widespread breach that left various players with billions of in-game credits, ultra-rare skins of weapons, and banned accounts. As of Sunday, December 28, the status page on Rainbow Six Siege‘s website still shows “unplanned outage” on all servers across PC, PlayStation and Xbox. Later that evening, though, the company confirmed that it was done testing on the update it pushed out and was opening the severs back up to players. It also said that the transaction rollback was complete, but that…

  • The 32 top enterprise tech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield 

    December 29, 2025

    Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage to become the winner, taking home the Startup Battlefield Cup and a cash prize of $100,000. But the remaining 180 startups all blew us away as well in their respective categories and compete in their own pitch competition. Here is the full list of the enterprise tech Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on why they landed in the competition AI Seer  What it does: Builds…

  • Every car discontinued in Australia in 2025

    December 29, 2025

    2025 saw the end of a handful of long-running nameplates, but you’ll still see some of them around… sort of. The Toyota Supra, for example, will still be seen on racetracks; the Hyundai i30 Hatch can still be bought in hot N guise; and the Mazda 6 is being replaced by a vehicle called the 6e, so just one letter off. A handful of premium models are shuffling off for good, though: the Audi S8 and Volvo S60 and V60 Cross Country. MORE: Every SUV, ute and van discontinued in Australia in 2025 Audi S8 Orders for the last surviving…

  • How Audi, BMW, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, and Suzuki started out in Australia, and where they are now

    December 29, 2025

    Cars like the BMW 3 Series, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, and Honda CR-V were instrumental in cementing the success of their respective makers, but a lot more models form the colourful histories of some of Australia’s favourite auto brands. Once again, we’re comparing the first models sold in Australia by several popular car manufacturers with their latest nameplates. This time, we’re taking a look at BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Suzuki, Audi, and Honda, as they make up the next batch of auto brands in our trundle down Australia’s sales charts, continuing on from parts one and two of this series. We’ve included only the newest nameplates released in…