• 2026 Genesis GV70 price and specs

    January 11, 2026

    The Genesis GV70 enters 2026 with minor changes, including new tech and minor price increases. The model year 2026 (MY26) GV70 entered production in October, and is due in local showrooms this month. All variants of the mid-size luxury SUV are $600 more expensive for 2026, but gain Digital Key 2. Once you’ve registered your GV70 with a Genesis Connected Services account, you can save a digital key in your smartphone wallet that be shared with up to 15 compatible devices. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. This means if…

  • Google’s new commerce framework cranks up the heat on ‘agentic shopping’

    January 11, 2026

    To further push the limits of consumerism, Google has launched a new open standard for agentic commerce that’s called Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). In brief, it’s a framework that combines the power of AI agents and online shopping platforms to help customers buy more things. Thanks to the introduction of UCP, Google is offering three new online shopping features. To start, Google’s AI mode will have a new checkout feature that allows customers to buy eligible products from certain US retailers within Google Search. Currently, this feature works with Google Pay, but it will soon add PayPal compatibility and incorporate…

  • California’s governor plans to set aside $200 million for state EV tax credits

    January 11, 2026

    The loss of the federal EV tax credits may have been a huge blow to prospective buyers, but California wants to fill that gap for its residents. Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget for 2026-2027, which was released on Friday, includes a “light-duty zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) incentive program” that details a one-time infusion of $200 million. According to the budget summary, this incentive program is “a critical part of the Administration’s strategy to keep ZEVs affordable and accessible for all.” The proposed budget still has to make it through the state’s legislature later this year, but if passed, the new incentive…

  • Wing to expand drone delivery to another 150 Walmart stores

    January 11, 2026

    Wing, the Alphabet-owned company that delivers groceries, over-the-counter medicine, and hot lattes, is expanding its partnership with Walmart for the second time in less than a year. The two companies announced on Sunday plans to bring the on-demand drone delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores. The rollout, which builds off existing services at stores in Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta, will occur throughout this year and into 2027, Wing’s new chief business officer Heather Rivera told TechCrunch. The expansion suggests customers are using Wing’s drone delivery service enough to warrant growth. Rivera said its top 25% customers are using…

  • Hyundai Staria Electric: Large people mover gains EV variant

    January 11, 2026

    While the electric Hyundai range has a hatch, sedan, and too many SUVs to count, the new Staria Electric is the automaker’s first EV people mover. Based on the facelifted Staria unveiled in late 2025 that’s due in Australia some time this year, there’s little visual differentiation between the electric, and petrol, diesel and hybrid siblings. Only the most dedicated of car spotters will notice the Electric badge on the tailgate, and the off-centre charging port located just above the front number plate. CarExpert can save you thousands on a new car. Click here to get a great deal. The Staria Electric…

  • Wing’s drone deliveries are coming to 150 more Walmarts

    January 11, 2026

    Don’t be surprised if you see even more drones delivering groceries across the US since the Alphabet-owned Wing announced another service expansion with Walmart over the next year. The partnership said that drone delivery services will be available at 150 more Walmart locations in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Miami and more metros that have yet to be announced. According to Wing, its top 25 percent of customers have ordered its delivery drones up to three times a week. To meet growing demand, Wing and Walmart said it will serve up to 40 million US customers and build up a…

  • Google removes AI Overviews for certain medical queries

    January 11, 2026

    Following an investigation by the Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to certain health-related queries, the company appears to have removed the AI Overviews for some of those queries. For example, the Guardian initially reported that when users asked “what is the normal range for liver blood tests,” they would be presented with numbers that did not account for factors such as nationality, sex, ethnicity, or age, potentially leading them to think their results were healthy when they were not. Now, the Guardian says AI Overviews have been removed from the results for “what is…

  • Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents

    January 11, 2026

    Google today announced a new open standard, called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference. The standard, developed with companies like Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, lets agents work across different parts of customer buying processes, including discovery and post-purchase support. The core idea is that the standard could facilitate these various parts of the process instead of requiring connections with different agents. Google said that it also works with other agentic protocols, such as Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) — which Google announced last year — Agent2Agent (A2A), and Model…

  • Meet SETA: Open Source Training Reinforcement Learning Environments for Terminal Agents with 400 Tasks and CAMEL Toolkit

    January 11, 2026

    What does an end to end stack for terminal agents look like when you combine structured toolkits, synthetic RL environments, and benchmark aligned evaluation? A team of researchers from CAMEL AI, Eigent AI and other collaborators have released SETA, a toolkit and environment stack that focuses on reinforcement learning for terminal agents. The project targets agents that operate inside a Unix style shell and must complete verifiable tasks under a benchmark harness such as Terminal Bench. Three main contributions: A state of the art terminal agent on Terminal Bench: They achieve state of the art performance with a Claude Sonnet…

  • Instagram says accounts ‘are secure’ after wave of suspicious password reset requests

    January 11, 2026

    If you received a bunch of password reset requests from Instagram recently, you’re not alone. Malwarebytes, an antivirus software company, initially reported that there was a data breach revealing the “sensitive information” of 17.5 million Instagram users. Malwarebytes added that the leak included Instagram usernames, physical addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and more. However, Instagram said there was no breach and that user accounts were “secure.” In Malwarebytes post, the company added that the “data is available for sale on the dark web and can be abused by cybercriminals.” Malwarebytes noted in an email to its customers that it discovered…