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Instacart ends AI-driven pricing tests that pushed up costs for some shoppers

A study earlier this month showed that Instacart's algorithmic pricing tools caused shoppers to pay different prices for identical items from the same store.

Companies compete to develop next generation lunar rover for NASA

NASA astronauts took their first drive on the moon 54 years ago. Now, three companies are competing for a NASA contract to build a new lunar rover for use starting with the Artemis 5 mission in 2030. Kris Van Cleave reports.

Avatar Fire and Ash: harmony is no longer guaranteed in James Cameron’s threequel

Crucial tonal shifts mean the film asks harder questions than the series ever has before. Share your thoughts in the comments below This article contains spoilers for Avatar: Fire and Ash

Jefferies says international demand could fuel next leg of growth for this satellite imagery stock

The investment firm initiated the satellite imagery company at a buy rating.

AI Is Democratizing Music. Unfortunately.

The emerging technology is warping the record industry in all sorts of strange—and foreboding—ways.

Tech stocks rebound, Google's boomerang strategy, Xbox's slump and more in Morning Squawk

Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.

Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate

Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions

The best design and architecture of 2025

This year’s highlights include the remodelling of a Richard Seifert brutalist ‘corncob’ tower, a celebration of Japanese carpentry and a wearable hot-water bottle The best art and photography of 2025 More on the best culture of 2025

Space travel’s new frontier: Private ownership

Dec. 22, 2015, was a milestone in the history of space travel. On the night of Dec. 21 to 22, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral and successfully deployed 11 communications satellites into Earth orbit. It then achieved something previously considered nearly impossible: The rocket’s first stage was guided back to Earth and landed vertically and precisely on a platform just a few kilometers from the launch site.

State of play: who holds the power in the video games industry in 2025?

This year has brought us many brilliant video games – but as wealth continues to concentrate, and games are used to exert economic and political influence, we need to keep an eye on the top players

A Gaza mass wedding and a Durbar horse procession: celebrating the agency photographers of 2025

The Guardian’s picture editors highlight the work of photojournalists working for news agencies worldwide whose images have made an impact and contributed to our journalism during 2025

Light Needs review

Houseplants appear to make conversation and yearn for lost friends in a witty yet luminous documentary from Jesse McLean