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Tesla is finally bridging the gap between its electric vehicles and home energy storage systems. After years of anticipation, vehicle-to-home (V2H) support has officially arrived for Tesla’s residential Powerwall batteries, letting owners tap their vehicle pack to keep household appliances running when the power grid cuts out.

Microsoft is struggling with various problems with its Windows and other software updates and is now making further corrections. The developers now describe most of the side effects since August as resolved, and for others, they mention countermeasures that provide relief. The status display of Microsoft Defender is now also back on track.

A product I was responsible for had a 4.8-star rating. I still could not reliably apply a promo code. That contradiction made me think about a problem I had seen in growing product teams: the metrics can look healthy while using the product tells you something else.

Meta’s latest AI app, Muse, could be the social giant’s next major hit, new data suggests. According to just- released estimates from market intelligence provider Apptopia, Muse’s app on mobile devices has been downloaded more times during its first 12 days on the market than ChatGPT was in the 12 days after its debut. (This…

Apple’s official iPhone Duo wallpapers weren’t in iOS 27 at launch, but there’s still a way to grab them. Credit: Wu Xiaoling/Xinhua