AI, EVs, and Joe Biden’s push for domestic manufacturing are putting more pressure on aging power grids. The nation also needs double the transmission capacity to meet Biden’s goal of 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity.

To get more transmission lines up, FERC just overhauled rules for new projects — including a mandate that grid operators start anticipating energy needs at least 20 years in advance.

Instead of reviewing the iPad, Federico Viticci over at MacStories decided to take iPadOS to task. He runs down what’s missing, what’s broken, and what Apple needs to do to make the iPad the do-everything device it could be. Federico gets it!

The iconic Lofi Girl is now in Fortnite — or, at least, her room is. A new Fortnite map lets you run around the bedroom as if you were in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, collecting music notes and sneaking a look at what’s under the bed. It’s unsurprisingly pretty chill, except for some of the platforming sequences.

More residents across the US are asking that question about carbon dioxide, The Washington Post reports, as technologies that capture CO2 from smokestacks become more popular with companies that want to claim they’re fighting climate change. All that captured carbon dioxide has to go somewhere, and concerns are growing about the safety of new CO2 pipelines and underground storage wells.

Aibo — Sony’s “Four-Legged Entertainment Robot” — hit the shelves in 1999, to the utter horror of parents (like my own) who had barely recovered from Furbies launching the year prior.

Happy 25th birthday you old dog! My inner child is heartbroken to have never owned you, but my now 30-year-old self will happily skip the current model’s near $3,000 price tag.

After laying off 500 members of the Tesla Supercharger team and sending the EV charging world into turmoil, Tesla is looking to rehire some of the personnel. As Bloomberg reports, one of the major returns is director for charging for North America Max De Zegher, who apparently worked right under ousted director Rebecca Tinucci.

What is the company announcing one day ahead of Google’s presumably AI-heavy I/O 2024 event tomorrow? According to Sam Altman, what OpenAI has in store is not the rumored search engine or GPT-5 updates, but we’ll find out what it really is at 1PM ET / 10AM PT.

It’ll be its first update since the 2021 model, but don’t expect much — it’ll come with a processor bump, Mark Gurman wrote to subscribers of his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg yesterday. But as he also wrote in April, it won’t get much else.

Ubisoft has announced that the project formerly titled Assassin’s Creed Red now has an official name: Assassin’s Creed Shadows. But wait, there’s more. In addition to announcing the name change, Ubisoft has also announced that it’ll be sharing the game’s first official reveal trailer this week, Wednesday May 15th at 12 PM ET.

A Peridot, that is. Pokémon Go maker Niantic is attempting to expand its virtual pet game with a new mixed reality spinoff for the Meta Quest 3. If you own the headset you can check it out right now.

The top two lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ), proposed a new bill to sunset Section 230 protections for the tech industry. It would give Congress about 18 months to create a new framework to replace the legal liability shield for user-generated content, or lose the protection entirely.

When you need to write something down fast, the last thing you want is software that demands you format, organize, and tag your document. Bebop, which launched today on iOS, is a lightweight app designed specifically around the idea of jotting something down for later. I haven’t gotten to mess around with it too much, but it’s free and the “pro” version is a $5 upgrade — for life. No fussy subscription!