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The Telo MT1 is a big truck trapped in a tiny truckโ€™s body

10 October 2026 at 11:00
A small truck parked in front of a harbor at dusk.

I'm bouncing down the road in San Carlos, California, zipping past behemoth tech companies like EA and Oracle, in America's smallest electric truck.

The Telo MT1 (which stands for "mini truck") unquestionably turns heads because it looks so remarkably different from everything else on the market right now.

It has a nearly cab-over design, meaning that front-seat passengers sit almost directly over the front axle. It looks a lot like a Japanese kei truck, with a super-short nose and four doors. People stop to stare as we sit at stoplights or roll silently past.

The interior is surprisingly spacious, and while the seats are firm, they're n โ€ฆ

Read the full story at The Verge.

The director of Fjord takes the โ€˜risky positionโ€™ of moderator

By: May Jeong
10 October 2026 at 11:00
Renata Reinsve (top center) and Sebastian Stan (top right) play religious Romanians living in Norway. | FLC Press

Cristian Mungiu's sixth feature, Fjord, concerns a family on trial. They seem like good people, God-fearing. They've just moved from Romania to a small hamlet nestled in the fjords of rural Norway. There is Mamma (Renate Reinsve), Tata (a bald and bespectacled Sebastian Stan), and their passel of children. They are an openly religious and proselytizing family. The parents, unfashionably, believe in punitive consequences to actions. They would never be accused of gentle parenting. All ought to be well, only Norway in 2026 is extravagantly suspicious of the devout - their famous tolerance reserved for the secular.

Fjord starts quietly and b โ€ฆ

Read the full story at The Verge.

Quebec Independence Is Unlikely, but Some Will Still Dream

10 October 2026 at 10:00
The idea of independence remains deeply unpopular in Quebec, yet the separatist Parti Quรฉbรฉcois was re-elected to a minority government this week.

ยฉ Patrick Doyle/Reuters

The Parti Quรฉbรฉcois leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, reacted to the results of the provincial election in Montreal on Monday.
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