Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire electric bike unit is warning that it may not be able to keep operating over the next year. The numbers are grim. With cash down from $82.8 million to $39.9 million in nine months and a net loss of $18.6 million on just $7.9 million in quarterly revenue, which leaves prospective buyers with a real question about long-term support. Elsewhere, Gemini AI can now edit your docs right in the chat, while researchers are close to figuring out traceability for 3D-printed ghost guns.

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LiveWire, Harley-Davidson's electric motorcycle brand, has warned that it may not be able to keep operating over the next year. The company reported $7.9 million in third-quarter revenue against an $18.6 million net loss, and its cash fell from $82.8 million at the end of 2025 to $39.9 million by September 30. For anyone considering a LiveWire bike, the company's future support is now a real question to weigh. Growth isn't closing the gap. LiveWire sold 241 electric motorcycles in the quarter, up 31% from a year earlier, but those sales brought in only $2.7 million and came with a $17 million operating loss for the motorcycle division. STACYC, its electric balance bike business, contributed $5.2 million, nearly twice as much.

The board has formed a special restructuring committee, named Roy Gallagher chief restructuring officer, and withdrawn its 2026 operating loss forecast of $70 million to $80 million. LiveWire is seeking new financing and exploring partnerships, and a sale is also on the table, though none of it is guaranteed. The cheaper S4 Honcho range, with prices starting below $5,000, is the company's best shot at reaching more riders. The Trail model began US deliveries in August and the Street version reached dealers in October, but whether it moves enough units to matter is unproven. The next date to watch is November 9, when LiveWire expects to file a fuller update on its finances and plans.

Researchers at Curtin University in Australia, working with forensic experts at ChemCentre, say the plastic used to print a gun could help investigators trace it. Ghost guns often lack serial numbers and the microscopic markings that conventional firearms leave on bullets and cartridge cases, so any new way to link a weapon to its source matters. The team used differential scanning calorimetry, which measures how a material responds to heat, on 28 samples of PLA, a common 3D-printing plastic. They could tell 26 of the 28 apart, including samples that matched in color but came from different manufacturers. The catch is that printing itself heats and cools the plastic, so a finished object behaves differently from the filament it came from.

The researchers got around this by putting both materials through controlled heating and cooling, which let them match printed test pieces to their filament across 15 samples. In practice, police could compare filament recovered from a suspect's home or workshop with the material in a seized gun, or connect weapons found in separate investigations. It is not ready for law enforcement yet. The method still needs testing with other materials and with samples exposed to soil or water. It would also offer an alternative to approaches like the 2018 PrinTracker system, which matched printed keys to 14 test printers with 99.8% accuracy but has largely stayed a proof of concept because it needs a reference database of printers.

Google's Gemini app now lets you create, preview, and edit documents, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets, and code without leaving the chat. Until now, you could generate and download files, but any fix meant starting over or working elsewhere. Now you can expand a file to full screen and correct it yourself, or highlight a specific section and ask Gemini to rewrite it, answer questions about it, or change its visuals. Google's example is a student who uploads photos of handwritten lecture notes, asks Gemini to turn them into a PDF study guide, and checks the result right in the conversation.

The same approach could help anyone who regularly puts together reports, presentations, or spreadsheets. Tools like Granola's new voice typing feature show how much of this work is moving away from the keyboard. There is one catch. PDF preview and editing work on both mobile and web, but Google Docs, Sheets, presentations, Markdown, TXT, and code files are supported on the web only for now. Google says the features are available to all users in languages and regions where the Gemini app is supported, and the update follows a busy month that also brought Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini 4 Carbon.

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