It feels like we have been waiting an age for the Range Rover Electric. First announced back in December 2023, JLR’s luxury EV SUV was meant to hit the road in 2024, but extended development testing forced the carmaker to push its arrival back. Now it’s finally here—one of WIRED’s most anticipated rides—the first fully electric Range Rover.

The specs are as mighty as you would expect. Dual 260-kilowatt motors deliver “V8 levels of power” up to 542 horsepower and 850 newton-meters of torque (20 percent more than other motors of the same size, JLR claims). Inside, a double-stacked 118.5-kWh battery with 800-volt split-charging tech can recharge the cell from 10 to 80 percent in 22 minutes (or, if you prefer, 137 miles in 10 minutes). Max range is supposedly 372 miles (according to WLTP standards), and a claimed real-world distance of up to 333 miles.

Photograph: Courtesy of JLR

The Range Rover Electric will launch from a standstill to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds, which is rapid considering the car’s weight, though there’s no official figure.

All this comes at a price, naturally—one that’s high even for Range Rover. Available for order now, the UK entry-level Autobiography model is £154,070, or about $208,000, but this quickly climbs to £225,240 (north of $304,000) for the SV Black long-wheelbase model. It could go higher, too, as the “Ultra” models are listed as “price on application”—shorthand for “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.” However, US customers can buy a lower SE-spec Range Rover Electric from $138,00—add $2,550 for delivery and destination.

Like so many educators, I was balancing more than a typical routine. I was teaching full-time in a Title I high school while writing, speaking, advocating, mentoring and trying to create learning experiences that honored students who often navigate systems not designed with them in mind. I was often somewhere between grading essays, responding to emails, and figuring out why half the class couldn’t log into Microsoft Teams because the Wi-Fi was acting up again. I wasn’t looking for a tech revolution; if anything, I needed a lifeline. When I stumbled upon GenerationAI, I saw a path to reclaim some of that lost time.

In 2025, I applied to GenerationAI and was one of the fortunate educators chosen to participate in an AI-driven cohort of educators and communities of practice. During the program, we had to create a problem of practice and identify which AI tools could mitigate, alleviate, and elevate our content and student success. My problem of practice was how to leverage AI tools to advance writing skills among English learners (ELs) in the high school English classroom. 

I’ll admit it: At first, I wasn’t fully convinced these tools would actually help me become a better teacher. Research on AI transformation in the classroom promised a total revolution in teaching and learning. However, the verbiage from the opening sessions at Google Headquarters in Chicago swung between salvation and complete catastrophe for me. Meanwhile, I thought, I am just trying to get my students through another Tuesday navigating Padlet and NoRedInk without disruption.

Still, I stayed curious and genuinely wanted to lean in to the opportunity. What did I have to lose? Experts leading the program kept reassuring me that the right exposure to AI could make marginalized communities more competitive against their privileged counterparts, and that was enough to draw me in. 

With each session, my imagination grew about what AI could become, not only in my classroom, but across the landscape of education as we know it. Not only did we receive helpful AI resources and tools, but the program also provided opportunities for us to share what worked in the classroom and what needed to be revamped to support stronger student outcomes. 

I often felt like I was running alongside a moving vehicle that would not stop for me. There was so much to learn, so many platforms to explore, and so many possibilities. There was also so little time.

Yet, somewhere between the overwhelm and the inspiration I gained from fellow educators in my cohort, something shifted within me.

I stopped believing I needed to master AI before I could use it well.

I stopped believing I needed to master AI before I could use it well. Instead, I started treating it like a thought partner. Not a replacement, not a shortcut, but a collaborator; something I so desperately needed with full rosters of ELs, IEPs, and 504s to manage.

Once the program ended, I began brainstorming lesson ideas when my own creativity felt out of reach. I was surprised by how AI helped elevate my big ideas. I gathered discussion questions before testing them in class. I redesigned assignments to make them more culturally responsive and more accessible for multilingual learners. When difficult conversations around immigration, ICE and identity became impossible to ignore, AI helped me think through instructional pathways that were academically rigorous while remaining deeply connected to my desire to create a safe space of belonging. 

It helped me see possibilities I hadn’t considered before. AI didn’t diminish my role; it amplified it. 

From Gatekeeper to Collaborator

One of the most transformative tools I encountered from the program was Class Companion. For my English learners, immediate writing feedback became a game changer. Instead of waiting several days for my comments on an essay, students could revise while their thinking was still fresh. They received another opportunity to practice, rethink, and improve without waiting for me to finish grading another stack of digital papers. 

That mattered.

Not because technology became the teacher, but because it gave students another chance to become stronger writers and gave me space to provide the meaningful instruction they deserved. I no longer felt pressured to offer rushed or watered-down feedback simply because there were not enough hours in the day. 

ChatGPT also proved useful for brainstorming and generating ideas for essay topics, project concepts, and research question frameworks for the students. It relieved a lot of unnecessary pressure for both of us, and we were productive and grateful. 

The students were also pleasantly surprised that I welcomed AI the way I did. As educators, we often carry the impossible expectation that we have to know everything before we try it. But to be honest, classrooms have never worked that way, and they shouldn’t. 

Teaching has always been an act of experimentation. Robert Marzano once said, “In effect, a good part of effective teaching is an art.” It’s an art form. We adjust. We pivot. We learn in real time alongside our students.

AI became another place for that real-time experimentation. I had to be willing to crash and burn in front of them while experimenting with Canva AI-generated images that didn’t work at all because of slow internet and our inability to guide the AI tool properly. 

Yet, these experiments were vital in schools like mine. Schools where innovation isn’t limited by imagination, but by fair access. Schools where broken laptops join a list of devices needing repair. Schools where slow internet can derail an entire lesson, and I have receipts for this. Schools where conversations about equity cannot stop at access to premium platforms because some students are still waiting for access to functioning devices and suitable chargers. 

Those realities never disappeared simply because AI entered the conversation. On the contrary, they became even more visible.

The Equity Gap in the Age of AI

I didn’t join GenerationAI to become an artificial intelligence expert. I joined because I was trying to persevere and find as many resources as possible to make magic in an environment challenged by barriers to access, resources, and injustice outside the classroom. 

Looking back, I honestly wish I could have absorbed more from my GenerationAI cohort. The learning was incredibly rich, but almost too rich, given the barriers my students and I faced every day around time and access to functioning technology.

Still, I don’t see that as a failure. I didn’t leave as an AI expert. I left as a teacher who wasn’t afraid to experiment. That may be the most important lesson of all.

We don’t need educators who know every tool. We need educators who are willing to ask better questions, willing to take instructional risks, and willing to discover how technology can support, rather than replace, authentic teaching and sincere moments of connection.

AI never became the star of my classroom. My students remained at the center as mis estrellas – my stars.

AI never became the star of my classroom. My students remained at the center as mis estrellas – my stars.

Sometimes innovation isn’t about having all the answers. Sometimes it’s about having the courage to try something new. AI didn’t replace the heart of my teaching; it gave me more time to use it in the way I felt would resonate with both me and my students.

Firefox users on iPhone finally get something Android and desktop users have enjoyed for a while: a real way to block ads without hunting down a separate extension for Firefox. Mozilla officially launched Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS today, after testing it over the past few weeks.

How the new ad blocker works on iOS

The feature relies on Apple’s WebKit Content Blocker technology paired with the EasyList filter, which is a community-maintained list that identifies known ad and tracker sources. That combination lets Firefox strip out most third-party ads and trackers before they even load, cutting down on clutter and saving you some bandwidth along the way. This is the latest move in Mozilla’s yearslong campaign against ad-based tracking.

However, you should also know what this feature can (and cannot) do. Ads served directly by the website itself will still show up, as will ads inside search results. Firefox’s own sponsored shortcuts on the new tab page are treated separately too, so don’t expect those to disappear.

How to turn on Firefox’s ad blocker on iOS?

You’ll need to turn this on yourself, since Mozilla is keeping it off by default. First, go to Settings, then Browsing, then Ad Blocker to enable it, or toggle it quickly from the site menu whenever you’re browsing.

The ad-blocker works alongside Firefox’s existing Enhanced Tracking Protection, giving iOS users two layers of privacy tools. Notably, Firefox is actually late to this particular party, since Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi already offer built-in ad blocking on their own iOS browsers.

Firefox 155 update: what else is new?

This rollout lands alongside Firefox 155, which brings a handful of other changes too. Smart Window, Mozilla’s AI-assisted browsing feature, is expanding to more users in the US, Canada, and France, picking up faster responses and smarter tab organization along the way.

Organize Tabs feature also got smarter. It now suggests better grouping for related tabs and gives each group a clear descriptive name. The update also adds a visible tracker count right in the address bar, plus a batch of smaller bug fixes across desktop and mobile.

In brief: A small team of engineers and scientists have announced what they are describing as humanity’s first mission to another star. It’s an ambitious mission, but one that’d barely put a dent in the budgets of major space players like NASA or SpaceX.

The Fermi Explorer Mission aims to launch in just three years and arrive at Alpha Centauri in roughly 80,000 years at a cost of less than $15 million – an absolute bargain, relatively speaking. The non-profit is co-founded by Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, and Adi Oltean, who recently brought startup Starcloud to life. An 81-page PDF is available to download, outlining the full mission plan and analysis.

The team expects its spacecraft to be the first to set sail but the last to actually arrive at its destination. Advances in technology should allow humanity to build spacecraft in the not-too-distant future that can travel through space at much faster speeds. Even with the head start, Fermi Explorer will lose the race by a wide margin.

Why bother with the mission at all if craft built just 50 years from now will get there first? Well, someone has to be first, and the mission could spark interest from other groups with deeper pockets and better technology. There’s also something to be said about the spirit of human exploration and our thirst for knowledge. A project like this certainly scratches those itches.

The non-profit is soliciting donations via a crowdfunding model, complete with typical reward tiers. A donation of $10 will get your name on a website as an official mission supporter, while a minimum contribution of $100 is needed for your name to be engraved on the craft. There’s also a merch store where you can purchase branded swag to support the effort.

The next step in humanity’s exploration of space involves returning humans to the Moon and eventually, sending them to Mars. A crewed mission to our nearby satellite is targeted for 2028; no date is yet set for our first trip to the Red Planet.

Roku has launched its first-ever OLED TVs, the Roku Pro Series OLED and Roku Pro Series LX OLED, replacing its older LCD-based Pro lineup entirely. For a brand known mostly for budget friendly streaming hardware, jumping straight into OLED territory is a bold move, especially with pricing this aggressive.

The Roku Pro Series OLED undercuts Samsung and LG

The base model starts at just $999 for the 55-inch size, a number worth pausing on. Samsung’s entry-level S85 OLED currently lists for $1,499, while LG’s B6E OLED runs $1,299. Roku is undercutting both by a real margin.

Roku Pro Series OLED features a 4K, 120Hz panel with Dolby Vision, Roku’s Smart Picture Max for automatic picture tuning, and gaming perks like FreeSync Premium and variable refresh rate. It’s also available now in both 55 and 65 inch sizes, exclusively through Amazon.

The Pro Series LX OLED is the pricier, sharper option

Roku’s step-up model adds a brighter panel, a wider color range, a faster 144Hz refresh rate, and an anti-reflective filter that cuts down on glare. It’s not yet confirmed which exact type of OLED panel this model uses, though it’s likely a brightness-optimized variant similar to what LG uses in its C Series. The LX OLED is available for preorder now, officially launching in October for $1,299.

What’s new, and what’s missing, in Roku’s OLED TVs

Both new TVs share Roku’s signature simplicity. You get an adjustable tool-free stand, velcro cable straps, and a push to talk voice remote with backlit buttons that pairs directly with Bluetooth headphones.

There’s also a tradeoff here. Roku’s ultra-thin metal bezel design meant sacrificing the Soundstage audio port that shipped on the older Pro TV. Roku’s VP of retail strategy, Chris Larson, confirmed the feature would have made the new design too thick to pull off.

For years, Roku has built its reputation on simple software and affordable streaming devices. Now it is bringing that same strategy to OLED TVs. Whether it can challenge LG and Samsung on picture quality remains to be seen, but it has already made the premium TV market far more competitive.

I never thought I’d type this sentence, but there’s a toothbrush that costs as much as a mid-range Android smartphone and has Wi-Fi connectivity and a built-in camera. 

Dyson just unveiled the CameraJet, a toothbrush that packs an actual camera and an AI detection system. It is built specifically to find and flush out the gaps between your teeth that regular brushes miss.

Fiserv’s Colm O’Donaill discusses the ever-more-vital issue of security in a finance landscape being transformed by AI innovation.

Now a senior vice-president and CIO for EMEA at global fintech and payments platform Fiserv, Colm O’Donaill took his first steps into the space aged 11 or 12 when he picked up some new skills on an amber-screen, DOS-based PC his mother brought home in the late 80s. 

O’Donaill told SiliconRepublic.com, “It was a business machine so I couldn’t play games on it, so instead I self-learnt how to code. My first job was typing up theses and university papers for my older sibling’s college classmates.”

Education has been for him, like it is for so many in the STEM space, a vehicle through which one can stay abreast of evolution in a vastly changing world and, now more than ever, he finds that professionals can’t let their skills stagnate.

“Computer engineering is constantly evolving and like other professional disciplines such as medicine and science, a practitioner needs to be continually investing in their own learning,” he said.  

“The advancement of AI since GPT-5 was released this time last year has been staggering and continues to accelerate, so if we are to participate, we can’t take any breaks in self-education. 

“With new cyber models of AI, we are learning that it is able to expose lack of diligence in security systems, meaning we have to really fulfil our obligation to resolving zero-day issues and continuous remediation of findings instead of lip-service to those ideals. 

“Companies that don’t protect in depth will be discovered by automated agents and will be exploited. This requires that we take investment in these areas seriously.”

A tale of two landscapes

O’Donaill noted Ireland’s strong reputation in the fintech industry, due in part to the many natively-grown companies that have shown what Irish fintechs can contribute, and the talent pipeline consisting of professionals trained at large multinationals. 

However, the challenge, he finds, is in better understanding other markets so fintech companies can scale and grow, while also navigating industry turmoil and complexity.  

“It’s no secret that there have been layoffs in Ireland since the beginning of the year in the finance and tech sectors. This may indicate that the Irish advantage is being eroded – likely by high costs of living making Ireland less attractive to foreign investors – and this means there’s less security in the industry. 

“This, however, underlines the need to continuously self-educate and avoid complacency. If there are disruptions in the Market News International sector, this releases many experts into the domestic market to drive Irish innovation forward – entrepreneurs would be wise to take advantage.” 

To that point, he shared an anecdote in which “a previous employer hired technology staff directly from the carpark of a liquidation competitor”.

Primarily, for O’Donaill, one of the biggest mistakes a young person looking to move into a finance career can make today would be to neglect their AI education, noting the similarity of the technology’s emergence to other impactful innovations.  

“The current AI offerings are the worst they will ever be – they will only improve. They will become as much a fact of working as computers became in the 80s or virtual meetings became in the 2010s,” he said.  

“Any young professional that is not deeply exploiting this innovation will lose out to others. It is a key aspect of improving the quality and volume of output a contributing employee can make – don’t miss out.”

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