• Video: Off-road battle for Beer O’Clock Hill has automakers scrambling

    December 30, 2025

    Australia’s best-selling utes have been pitted against each other in one of the toughest industry tests for off-road vehicles. However, not all of those tested made it up the first time. The video, published on the CarExpert YouTube channel, was filmed on-site at The Springs 4×4 Park – located at The Glen in the Granite Belt of Queensland, south of Warwick. Within the park is Beer O’Clock Hill, considered one of the toughest off-road hill climbs in the country – allowing for consistent testing back-to-back within the confines of a private property. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new…

  • LG to unveil a canvas-style TV at CES 2026

    December 30, 2025

    LG will unveil a canvas-style art TV, dubbed the LG Gallery TV, at CES 2026. The new model will be offered in 55-inch and 65-inch variants, and sports a flush-mount design along with customizable magnetic frames. The Gallery TV uses a Mini LED display and the company’s AI processor and offers 4K resolution. The new model will also leverage the LG Gallery+ service, a paid subscription with a library of over 4,500 works that users can display on the TV. Users will also be able to create custom images using generative AI or display images from personal photo libraries. LG…

  • How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others

    December 30, 2025

    OpenAI offers app integrations in ChatGPT to allow you to connect your accounts directly to ChatGPT and ask the assistant to do things for you. For instance, with a Spotify integration, you can tell it to create personalized playlists that will show up right in your Spotify app. To get started, make sure you’re logged into ChatGPT. Then type the name of the app you want to use at the start of your prompt, and ChatGPT will guide you through signing in and connecting your account. If you want to set everything up at once, head over to the Settings…

  • Bill Gates Believed Sleeping Is ‘Laziness And Unnecessary’ Until This…

    December 30, 2025

    The wheels of the money churning machine need endless sleepless nights of slogging on, fueled by caffeine. Most billionaires and hustling entrepreneurs would vouch for it. Pulling in all-nighters and occasionally staying awake for two nights in a row to deliver projects on tight deadlines is not what just a high schooler does. Makes you wonder if billionaires are all just a bunch of high schoolers with tons of money. Well, Bill Gates was definitely one. In his recent podcast, ‘Unconfuse Me With Bill Gates’ with guests Seth Rogen and his wife, Lauren Miller Rogen, the billionaire talked about all…

  • Chinese vacuum cleaner maker teases 1000hp electric supercar

    December 30, 2025

    A vacuum cleaner maker from China has teased the first image of a new supercar it will reveal in the metal at the January 2026 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, United States (US). Dreame Automotive, known for high-performance vacuum cleaners, announced plans last August to build its first vehicle, an electric supercar it says will target the Bugatti Veyron, which was the world’s fastest car when it launched in 2004, capable of more than 400km/h. The images show the sleek two-seat Dreame supercar’s svelte lines, with a low stance capped by large alloy wheels housing cross-drilled brakes, as…

  • China introduces “no fire, no explosion” EV battery standards

    December 30, 2025

    New laws introduced in China aim to improve the safety of electric vehicle (EV) battery packs, including a “no fire, no explosion” requirement focusing on eliminating battery fires and subsequent hazards. The regulations will bring global benefits given the dominance of China in the EV battery supply chains and their proliferation across auto brands, including Tesla, BYD and Toyota. According to CarNewsChina, the new rules come into effect on January 1, 2026, and they “will require automakers to optimise battery structures and thermal management systems to improve the overall safety of new energy vehicles”. ‘New energy vehicles’ is a term…

  • How to watch the LG CES 2026 press conference

    December 30, 2025

    For years, LG has kicked off CES press day with the first event of the morning — and 2026 will be no different. The Korea-based corporation is theming its presentation as “Innovation in Tune with You,” and — if it follows the template of past presentations — it will highlight both the consumer electronics and large appliance sides of its mammoth global businesses. Like nearly all tech-centric events these days, expect AI to be the binding theme of the LG presentation at CES 2026. Just be aware that, like Apple, LG has its own customized abbreviation for AI: “Affectionate Intelligence.”…

  • 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check

    December 30, 2025

    Money was no object for the AI industry in early 2025. A vibe check crept in the second half of the year.  OpenAI raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Safe Superintelligence and Thinking Machine Labs raised individual $2 billion seed rounds before shipping a single product. Even first-time founders were raising at a scale that once belonged only to Big Tech.  Such astronomical investments were followed by equally incredible spends. Meta shelled out nearly $15 billion to lock up Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and spent countless more millions to poach talent from other AI labs. Meanwhile, AI’s…

  • CarExpert’s top five large SUV reviews of 2025

    December 29, 2025

    The CarExpert road test team has cycled through plenty of large SUVs this year, including segment stalwarts, updated favourites, and fresh arrivals. We spent extended periods with the new Toyota Prado and came to view it as a flawed family wagon, while the similarly positioned new Ford Everest continued to earn praise for its better rounded set of attributes. Newcomers were plentiful. Chinese brands such as BYD, MG and Chery kept us on our toes by introducing several new large SUVs to the market, as did the Japanese and Europeans. But which large SUV did you, our readers, take the…