Tesla's ludicrous mode — which takes you from 0 to 60 in as little as 2.5 seconds — isn't for everyone. Some of would happily dispense with a short-term boost in torque to have a comfortable, silent ride.Until Elon Musk offers some kind of "leisure mode," there's always the new, American-made 2025 Volvo EX90, a fully electric premium 7-seat SUV.You could hear a pin drop in the EX90's ultra-quiet cabin — just the serenity you need to lower stress levels and calm the beast inside. Unlike most of its battery-electric competitors, during acceleration, it does not pipe in a soundtrack that mimics an internal-combustion engine.The EX90's commitment to safety might also ease some tension when you're behind the wheel. Volvo's new multi-camera driver-monitoring system includes a suite of lidar, radar, eight cameras, and 12 ultrasonic sensors that collaborate to enforce Volvo's "zero crash" intent for all Volvos.A new computer-actuated dual-chamber air suspension helps the EX90 feel refined, flat, and planted. The computer allows for instantaneous reactions to road imperfections. The hydro-bushings in the front and rear axle enhance longitudinal damping, counteracting suspension-crashing sensations and creating a smooth ride.A trick torque-vectoring system, new to Volvo, recognizably enhances agility in low-speed or low-traction situations and aids in takeoff performance. As for the suspension and the steering, you can choose soft or firm settings. Exclusive Scandinavian modern design details add to the premium experience of an intelligent car. Inspired by the Swedish living room, the EX90 cabin showcases a modern, luxurious, and uncluttered interior design with high-quality Nordico or Wool Blend upholstery options. The backlit bent wood veneers are Alvar Aalto-esque, clutter is vanquished, and storage is multifarious, with bins and cubbies, including a frunk, a handbag shelf beneath the center console, and a sub-compartment beneath the rear cargo floor.A 14.5-inch screen in the middle controls virtually everything, including simple functions like adjusting the side mirrors and HVAC and opening the glovebox and trunk. The amazing Bowers & Wilkins/Abbey Road Studios premium audio system is most impressive and really stands out.Volvo says it doesn't intend the EX90 to replace the existing gas-powered XC90; it will continue to produce the latter as long as there's demand. Both 2025 versions of the car will be manufactured in the Swedish automaker's state-of-the-art Ridgeville, South Carolina, plant.The twin motor trim will run you $79,995 while the twin motor performance comes in at $84,995. American buyers qualify for the $7500 EV tax credit. Our test car was fully loaded and came in at $93,345.Pros :Elegant interior stylingGoogle-based technology featuresStrong accelerationAmazing audio systemCons:The EX90 is not a driver's car.No real leather option — it would increase the luxuryGlove box opening separate / manualRear-view cameraTo see the EX90 in action — and to get a better sense of how it stacks up to competitors like the Tesla Model X and the KIA EV9, check out my test-drive video below: - YouTube youtu.be

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker placed 11th on the NFL's list of top merchandise movers, beating teammate and pop culture crossover Travis Kelce.Kelce has been featured in commercials for controversial brands like Bud Light and Pfizer (to promote vaccines) and is famously dating pop singer Taylor Swift. Butker, on the other hand, has made headlines for daring to promote Christianity while standing against woke and diversity-centric ideologies.Earlier in the summer, Butker became the highest-paid NFL kicker of all time when he signed a four-year, $25.6 million extension. This has Butker averaging a salary of $6.4 million through the 2028 season.The NFL Players Association recently released its top 50 sales list, which tracks sales of officially licensed NFL player merchandise from online and traditional retail outlets. This includes jerseys, T-shirts, hoodies, bobbleheads, and much more.Butker placed 11th on the list just ahead of Kelce, who placed 12th.Not only was this Butker's first appearance on the list, but he became only the second kicker to ever sell enough merchandise to make the top 50. The first was Evan McPherson, who appeared on the list in 2022.'I just really wanted to show love and show people what I stand for. I pray for everybody.'While Butker's teammate Patrick Mahomes II was second on the merchandise list, a somewhat surprising No.1 entry was C.J. Stroud.Stroud, quarterback for the Houston Texans, openly proclaimed and promoted his faith throughout his rookie season. Fans flocked to Stroud to hear what he had to say due to his refreshingly open views on his religion.Some controversy developed in January 2024, however, when NBC edited an interview with Stroud to remove his mentions of Jesus.At the start of the interview, Stroud said, "First and foremost, I just want to give all glory and praise to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ." He then added, "Thank you, God bless," at the end of the interview.When the interview hit social media, however, both sections were removed with an obvious edit, as the camera angle jumped to a closeup, leaving out the shout-outs to Jesus.Stroud eventually spoke to Fox News on the subject after his team had been eliminated from the playoffs, weeks later."I just really wanted to show love and show people what I stand for. I pray for everybody. I don't really have any feeling towards it, I just pray for everyone," the quarterback said."It's cool to see people use their platform to show their purpose and the Lord. I think we have a really good community of a lot of believers in the league, really around the sports world."Stroud and Butker have led a charge among athletes in the last couple years to be more open about their Christian beliefs. In turn, fans have responded by supporting them both on and off the field.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is fading into distant memory, Megyn Kelly is here to make sure no one forgets it. Especially the performance of the “moderators.” In a recent appearance on ABC’s “Live with Kelly and Mark,” David Muir attempted to clean up his reputation following the debate. “I believe it was our duty to ask the issues that Americans care about. You know, the economy: Are we better off than we were four years ago? Immigration: What are you going to do about the border? Why did you wait so long before you acted on the border? Those types of questions,” Muir explained. “Reproductive rights. Afghanistan. Do you bear any responsibility? A peaceful transfer of power with the next election coming. You know, these are all really important issues, the issues of our time really,” he continued, adding, “I always say as a moderator, what the candidates decide to do with that time, you can ask the question, but they’ll answer with whatever they choose to answer with.” After watching the clip of Muir, Kelly has some critiques. “He’s just playing it right down the middle, Dave,” Kelly tells Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report.” “Let me tell you what that was. That was clean up in aisle seven because his ratings are down 12% since the debate.” “And far more than he’s seeing on the competition on CBS and NBC, they both fell a little this week,” she continues, adding, “just as it wasn’t that busy a news week but for, you know, the whole assassination thing.” “ABC News can see he’s in a free fall,” she concluded, and Rubin agrees. “They’re using one of their entertainment shows, the morning show, to run cover for their news operation,” Rubin says. “As Megan Kelly said, you know, playing it down the middle. And it’s like no, you did not dude. You fact-checked only Trump.”Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

In a recent post at X, Elon Musk issued a dire warning. Starship, the biggest vehicle in the SpaceX fleet, “will make life multiplanetary,” he wrote, “preserving life ... from extinction events on Earth, so long as it is not smothered by bureaucracy.”“There is more government regulatory smothering every year. If this continues, all large projects in the United States will be illegal,” he wrote, pointing to California’s cursed high-speed rail boondoggle as a typical cautionary tale. “The Department of Government Efficiency is the only path to extending life beyond Earth,” he concluded, referencing the would-be agency (bearing the not-so-coincidental acronym DOGE) Musk himself would lead in a second Trump administration with a mandate to slash Washington’s Borg-like mass of managers and bureaucrats. It wouldn’t be the first time the road to hell was paved with good intentions. The more potent the tools, the more grandiose the intentions; and the more prideful they are, the harder they fall.Musk’s message is a bright spot for many in an increasingly grim era. Today’s bureaucrats aren’t just stifling the major infrastructure and transportation projects that were the hallmark of America’s postwar golden age. They’re pinching off the lifeblood of American culture and commerce in a broader sense: enforcing speech codes, degrading and decreasing the food supply, inflating away savings, eroding the rule of law, and tightening the noose of social and financial surveillance. They’re becoming the only branch of government with the power to eclipse all the others.Against the agenda to destroy family formation, childbirth, land ownership, home ownership, and physical and mental health, Musk has distinguished himself as conspicuously pro-natalist, pro-growth, and pro-freedom — all elements of what we’re led to imagine life on Mars would be like if Starship indeed starts ferrying pioneers to the Red Planet. But with increasingly dystopian technology spreading far and wide and a huge share of technologists actively working toward building ultra-intelligent machines and planetary computers, it would be nice if an American rose to prominence with a clarion call to ensure that, if life is to spread beyond Earth, human life is not swiftly left behind and replaced by the kind of cyborg collective that epitomized villainy in the "Star Trek" universe, the kind that our home-world bureaucrats are themselves becoming. It’s all too easy to see how the wide-eyed wonder coming out of many leading futurists about opening the stars to the light of consciousness could lead to Mars becoming ground zero for communist colonies of people who want nothing more than to merge with each other and their supersmart machines — not just mega-computers underground but drone swarms, nanobots, virtual demigods, and on and on. Our technologically hybrid age, wherein leading visionaries hope to fuse the worship of human imagination with that of machine memory into a universal New Age religion, has put Americans at shocking risk of being mutated into a hyper-powered version of the USSR’s “New Soviet Man” ideal — a posthuman superbeing at once master of, and servant of, his machines. There’s also the "oops" factor to contend with. Mars colonists might show up devoted in theory to adding more red-blooded humans to the universe only to discover over time that they wound up naively or foolishly doing things that led to the conquest of the planet by intelligences unfriendly or disrespectful toward the continued dominance — or even existence — of “merely” human beings that are born, live, and die in the manner given to us from the beginning. It wouldn’t be the first time the road to hell was paved with good intentions. The more potent the tools, the more grandiose the intentions; and the more prideful they are, the harder they fall. Some would argue that today's situation is so bad on Earth or in America that we have to blast out of the grip of the bureaucrats and figure the rest out later. Perhaps this is true, or at least understandable, even if debatable or simply wrong. But if so, while some of us are hard at work on the blasting, others really must concentrate on the lasting — bearing witness to the precious and sacred character of our given human being, and warning, in proper prophetic tradition, that the swiftest and surest way to lose that character is by turning our face from God.

Constellation Energy has agreed to restart a reactor on Three Mile Island and will supply the vast majority of the power to Microsoft to support its data centers.Three Mile Island in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is the site of the partial nuclear meltdown that happened in 1979. However, the energy company will reopen the Unit 1 reactor, which did not melt down but rather closed in 2019. CNBC reported that Constellation will invest $1.6 billion in restarting the plant through 2028, and it is expected to remain open until 2054. The plant will be called the Crane Clean Energy Center after the company's deceased CEO, Chris Crane.Microsoft will purchase energy from the plant in a 20-year deal in order to power its artificial intelligence and data centers with what is being described as carbon-free power. This will occur despite criticisms from environmental activists who have shunned nuclear energy due to its waste. Microsoft founder Bill Gates even has a green energy company called Breakthrough Energy; however, green energy would not have the capacity required for Microsoft's data centers.'The decision here is the most powerful symbol of the rebirth of nuclear power as a clean and reliable energy resource.'Energy reporter Mark Nelson claimed in a post on X that Microsoft will pay approximately $800 million per year across the 20-year deal, for a total of $16 billion spent on energy.According to the Tokenist, the agreement also states that Constellation will provide Microsoft with about 835 megawatts of power, the largest purchase Microsoft has ever made for energy. This represents almost all of the Unit 1 reactor's capacity, which Constellation said had a ceiling of 837 megawatts before it was shut down.While this is enough power to feed more than 800,000 homes, Microsoft will essentially have its own nuclear plant to energize its data centers."The decision here is the most powerful symbol of the rebirth of nuclear power as a clean and reliable energy resource," said Constellation CEO Joe Dominguez. "In this rebirth, we see the most powerful sign that America will turn to the enduring promise of nuclear energy, an old and loyal ally that is renewed and ready to light the way forward."CNN reported that the reactor's reopening will create about 3,400 jobs and add another $16 billion to the Pennsylvania economy, which pleased local politicians.“This will transform the local economy and presents a rare opportunity to power our economy with reliable clean energy that we can count on," said state Rep. Tom Mehaffie (R); the plant is in his district. "This is a rare and valuable opportunity to invest in clean, carbon-free and affordable power — on the heels of the hottest year in Earth’s history."Constellation's stock jumped about 15% or about $30 per share after the news broke.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Mobile US chip maker Qualcomm wants to buy Intel, according to the Wall Street Journal. The reported move follows a rapid drop in Intel’s share price after its last quarterly earnings report, which has prompted several cost-saving measures across the company, including large-scale staff layoffs. Meanwhile, Qualcomm has been making headlines with its latest Snapdragon CPUs. Despite being based on the Arm architecture, its new chips, such as the Qualcomm X Plus range, are able to run the latest Windows software (including games) using on-the-fly x86 emulation. If Qualcomm were to buy Intel, though, it would suddenly be allowed to make full-on x86 chips for the best gaming laptops, while also having access to its Arm expertise, putting it in an enviable position. Continue reading Qualcomm reportedly wants to buy Intel, and Nvidia should be worried MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Core i5 14600K review, Best gaming CPU, Core i9 14900K review

I oftentimes find it difficult to play videogames after work. Writing about them all day is a privilege, but it does mean I don’t want to move from my office to my couch to just play what I’ve been writing about. Games that hone in on warm, relaxing vibes are a different story. I can easily sit and create in games like Minecraft and Terraria to my heart’s content, and now that Tiny Glade is finally here, this drop-dead gorgeous castle-building game can be added to that list. Pull up a chair, grab a cup of tea, and prepare to lose yourself in the vibes. Continue reading Stunning sandbox building game Tiny Glade is finally here, with a demo MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best sandbox games, Best building games, Best relaxing games

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