• How to use a VPN

    December 31, 2025

    Chances are that if a VPN is marketed to everyday users, it more or less runs itself. As long as you go with one of the best VPNs instead of setting up your own manual connection, the interface is likely built so you have to engage with it as little as possible. Generally, if you find yourself constantly thinking about your VPN while using it — as happened to me with Norton VPN — that's a bad thing and you should change providers. That said, it's still useful to get a high-level view of how to use a VPN, especially…

  • Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

    December 31, 2025

    Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! — to an increasingly tangible and tantalizing technology that has drawn investors off the sidelines. The technology may be challenging to master and expensive to build today, but fusion promises to harness the nuclear reaction that powers the sun to generate nearly limitless energy here on Earth. If startups are able to complete commercially viable fusion power plants, then they have the potential to upend trillion-dollar markets. The bullish wave buoying the fusion industry has been driven by three advances: more…

  • I slept without my phone for a week, and now I want a new alarm clock

    December 31, 2025

    Having trouble sleeping? Hit Snooze is Mashable’s deep dive into the many ways to achieve a more peaceful slumber. Recently, I’ve had to adjust to sleeping alone. I’ve slept with the same companion for as long as I can remember, but lately I’ve been thinking that some time apart might be healthy. After years of sleeping no more than two feet away from this companion every night, I took the terrifying initiative to put some physical space between us. It wasn’t easy, but it turned out to be a valuable learning experience. To be clear, I’m not talking about distancing…

  • Tencent Released Tencent HY-Motion 1.0: A Billion-Parameter Text-to-Motion Model Built on the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) Architecture and Flow Matching

    December 31, 2025

    Tencent Hunyuan’s 3D Digital Human team has released HY-Motion 1.0, an open weight text-to-3D human motion generation family that scales Diffusion Transformer based Flow Matching to 1B parameters in the motion domain. The models turn natural language prompts plus an expected duration into 3D human motion clips on a unified SMPL-H skeleton and are available on GitHub and Hugging Face with code, checkpoints and a Gradio interface for local use. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.23464 What HY-Motion 1.0 provides for developers? HY-Motion 1.0 is a series of text-to-3D human motion generation models built on a Diffusion Transformer, DiT, trained with a Flow Matching objective.…

  • From ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ to ‘Nashville’s Big Bash,’ here’s how to watch this year’s biggest New Year’s Eve TV specials

    December 31, 2025

    This year, it seems like there are more ways than ever to celebrate New Year’s Eve… from the comfort of your couch, that is. Whether you want to catch the enduring Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve hosted by Ryan Seacrest and filmed live out of Times Square in New York City, or check out of one the many other live specials filled with music performances, comedy and celebrity guests, you’ve got options. Thursday night’s TV schedule also includes New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash, a star-studded celebration of country music featuring five hours of performances from some of…

  • What to do when you can’t sleep

    December 31, 2025

    Having trouble sleeping? Hit Snooze is Mashable’s deep dive into how we cope with our collective insomnia and the many ways we can achieve a more peaceful slumber. You’re exhausted. All you need is sweet, precious, lovely sleep. But the very thing you need right now just won’t happen. You toss, you turn, you tear your hair out, but you don’t drift off. So, what do you do when you can’t fall asleep? It’s a question I’ve asked myself many a time when slumber has escaped me. Sleeping doesn’t always come easily or as quickly as we’d like it to.…

  • BYD, Geely crack global top 10 as Chinese new-car sales overtake Japan – report

    December 31, 2025

    China will take the top spot as the world’s best-selling automotive producer in 2025, outselling Japan for the first time, as analysts forecast Geely will join BYD in the top 10 best-selling global automotive brands. A Nikkei China report says Chinese auto brands will sell 27 million new vehicles globally in 2025, overtaking Japan’s projected 25 million sales. Despite controversial automotive import tariffs in both Europe and the United States, China’s automotive industry is set to break Japan’s decades-long stranglehold on the top spot for the first time. Domestic Chinese sales will account for around 70 per cent of Chinese…

  • How to watch the Hisense CES 2026 presentation live

    December 31, 2025

    Hisense is perhaps best known for its budget-friendly electronics and appliances, like TVs and refrigerators. But at CES 2025, the China-based company showed its high-end chops with a massive which recently became available for a whopping . So what’s on deck for this year’s show? New leadership, for starters. The company has two new hires, including Chief Marketing Officer Sarah Larsen and Chief Commercial Officer James Fishler. In a , Hisense said Fishler’s experience in home entertainment, appliances and HVAC is important as the company “builds toward a milestone 2026 and its presence at CES.” We’ll give you a rundown…

  • The phone is dead. Long live . . . what exactly?

    December 31, 2025

    True Ventures co-founder Jon Callaghan doesn’t think we’ll be using smartphones the way we do now in five years — and maybe not at all in 10. For a venture capitalist whose firm has had some big winners over its two decades – from consumer brands like Fitbit, Ring, and Peloton, to enterprise software makers HashiCorp and Duo Security – that’s more than armchair theorizing; it’s a thesis on which True Ventures is actively betting. True hasn’t gotten this far by following the crowd. The Bay Area firm has largely operated under the radar despite managing roughly $6 billion across…

  • How to sleep in a bed that’s not your own

    December 31, 2025

    Having trouble sleeping? Hit Snooze is Mashable’s deep dive into the many ways to achieve a more peaceful slumber. Nothing makes me more appreciative of my own bed than when I can’t sleep in it. Whether I’m staying with family or traveling, when my head hits that not-molded-to-my-head pillow, it’s never the same. We’re at a moment in time where people may be sleeping in a less-familiar bed indefinitely. While the small comfort of one’s own is needed most, it may not be a reality for some. First, know that it’s normal to have trouble sleeping in a different bed…