In a bonkers press conference where the President elect wouldn’t rule out invading Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland, he also said he would put a stop to “windmills” in the US.Presumably this will be right after he brings down the price of eggs, invades Canada, ends the war i … | Continue reading
Remember the Yangwang U9? Yeah, the same 1,287-horsepower electric hypercar from China that made headlines a few months back for doing bunny hops and spinning in a circle at a standstill. In a recently released video, the BYD hypercar is seen driving autonomously and jumping over … | Continue reading
A fire needs three things to burn: heat, fuel, and oxygen. The first is important: At some point this week, for a reason we have yet to discover and may never will, a piece of flammable material in Los Angeles County got hot enough to ignite. The last is essential: The resulting … | Continue reading
Some insights into newsletter strategy, based on unanswered questions from a Smartocto webinar | Continue reading
I’ve been todo hoarding. I have Reminders, Obsidian, and Godspeed all with different types of todos in them. Plus GitHub issues, Mastodon mentions, and Raindrop. I’m not getting to any of them. I’m missing things I should be doing. I’m forgetting important things. Also at least o … | Continue reading
The burning of L.A. is not just a natural disaster. It’s a man-made catastrophe. | Continue reading
How to keep your network and data protected while living in a digital world. | Continue reading
Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I’m not saying I want to buy one. I’m just very curious to see where this is going. Honda released one of the more interesting concepts at last year’s CES with two Honda Zero prototypes: the Saloon and the Space-Hub. It promised to come back in a y … | Continue reading
A large road-based land vehicle can launch a two-person eVTO flying car that is stored in its trunk. | Continue reading
Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I defend a new purchase…oh, and we have some fun with desks that sadly ends in Vision Pro slander. Why does this keep happening?! Watch on YouTube | Continue reading
Introdução No universo da programação, poucos debates são tão acalorados quanto a discussão entre Programação Funcional (FP) e Programação Orientada a Objetos (OOP). Como um desenvolvedor com experiência em ambos os paradigmas, principalmente através de Clojure e TypeScript, quer … | Continue reading
From a Star Wars-style droid for your home to a Pixar-inspired lamp bot, these are the most interesting and innovative robots we've seen so far at CES. | Continue reading
Image: The Verge xAI has released an iOS app in the US for its Grok chatbot, as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The standalone app version of the chatbot, which xAI calls a beta, can perform the same functions as the one built into X, as it can field real-time information, answer … | Continue reading
LaCie’s new Rugged SSD Pro5 will be available in 2TB and 4TB capacities. | Image: Seagate Following the arrival of the first Thunderbolt 5 cables last July and the first Thunderbolt 5 dock last September, it might finally be time to start upgrading your external storage to take a … | Continue reading
As Los Angeles continued to battle multiple big blazes ripping through some of the most beloved (and expensive) areas of the city on Thursday, a question lingered in the background: What caused the fires in the first place? Though fires are less common in California during this t … | Continue reading
A new study describes a type of cartilage that may have been discovered, forgotten and found again at several points in history. | Continue reading
Two companies have brought versions of their in-wheel motors to CES 2025 hoping to attract attention from manufacturers. The post In-Wheel Electric Motors From Donut Labs & Elaphe Debut At CES 2025 appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Can Netflix's "American Primeval" best "Yellowstone" when it comes to Westerns? Review. | Continue reading
We’ve done it. The future is now. The world of Arthur C. Clarke is upon us, and how! The world’s first flying passenger motorcycle, called the Skyrider X1, has just been unveiled at CES in Las Vegas. It rides, it flies, it’s autonomous and it’s pretty darn wild. Continue Reading … | Continue reading
Awaiting Abigail debuted with a powerful collection of songs and a strong artistic vision, marked by melodic turns and timeless production. | Continue reading
Human brains take in sensory data at more than 1 billion bits per second, but only process that information at a measly 10 bits per second, new research has found. | Continue reading
Set in a nondescript block of Georgia Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C., this single-acre cemetery is one one of the country’s smallest national cemeteries, and serves as a reminder of the time the American Civil War came to the doorstep of the nation’s capitol. On July 11, 18 … | Continue reading
Peter Gleick in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: As devastating wildfires sweep over parts of southern California, it is vital that media, the public, and our policymakers understand what’s happening and how to best respond. The first and most important need is to ensure th … | Continue reading
I can juuuust stretch my fingers far enough to grasp this wide boy. The PC handheld space continues to grow, and the biggest of all is Acer’s new Nitro Blaze 11. As soon as I saw it announced at CES, I knew I had to try and get it in my hands, at least for the sheer curiosity of … | Continue reading
You can pay the same price for the pictured 8Bitdo Ultimate Wired or the PlayStation-like 8Bitdo Pro 2. | Photo: 8Bitdo Xbox gamers have a growing list of options among the best Xbox controllers, but even expensive ones like the Xbox Elite Series 2 can develop stick drift and oth … | Continue reading
Climate Impacts ramping radically, while Project 2025 winds up to disband FEMA. Going to be wild. Go Fund yourself, LA. | Continue reading
Fubo Following FuboTV’s recent move to settle its antitrust lawsuit with Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery over the impending launch of their Venu Sports streaming service, DirectTV and EchoStar are urging the courts to consider how other TV distributors could still be shut … | Continue reading
1. Otsego County, Michigan – The Mitten State is proving just how hard it can be to build a solar project in wooded areas. Especially once Fox News gets involved. Last week, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said it wanted to lease more than 400 acres of undeveloped st … | Continue reading
1. Trump’s Big Promise – Our nation’s incoming president is now saying he’ll ban all wind projects on Day 1, an expansion of his previous promise to stop only offshore wind. “They litter our country like paper, like dropping garbage in a field,” Trump said at a press conference T … | Continue reading
This week’s interview is with Brown University professor J. Timmons Roberts. Those of you familiar with the fight over offshore wind may not know Roberts by name, but you’re definitely familiar with his work: He and his students have spearheaded some of the most impactful researc … | Continue reading
This week’s interview is with Brown University professor J. Timmons Roberts. Those of you familiar with the fight over offshore wind may not know Roberts by name, but you’re definitely familiar with his work: He and his students have spearheaded some of the most impactful researc … | Continue reading
As Climate impacts get worse, expect more desperate distractions.Climate stoked wildfires in California, you’ll remember were blamed on “Jewish Space Lasers” just another occasion to stoke anti-gay bigotry. Wired: As wildfires raged out of control across the Los Angeles area on W … | Continue reading
Yesterday my new colleague J. successfully defended their PhD thesis at Delft University. It was fun to attend. It’s been a while since I was last at a PhD defense. Also had a pleasant lunch in Delft with colleague P beforehand. | Continue reading
Photo by Apu Gomes / Getty Images As fires rage across Los Angeles and tens of thousands flee their homes, the usual suspects have decided to blame the blazes on their political enemies. In a series of posts on Truth Social, President-elect Donald Trump claimed firefighters’ inab … | Continue reading
NASA will explore two different strategies for fetching Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, and there's a chance these samples contain evidence of alien life. | Continue reading
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge You may be wondering how to delete your Facebook account now that fact-checking is no longer considered important, and Meta’s changing its definition of what constitutes Hateful Conduct. It’s easy to do, and we’ll show you how. But you sho … | Continue reading
Double-keyed Caching: How Browser Cache Partitioning Changed the Web Addy Osmani provides a clear explanation of how browser cache partitioning has changed the landscape of web optimization tricks. Prior to 2020, linking to resources on a shared CDN could provide a performance bo … | Continue reading
Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia? Feels like the tech equivalent is: Don’t miss the product for the artifacts. Here’s Robin Rendle in a recent piece on design artifacts: … | Continue reading
The newborn had a birth defect that left a gap in his lower spine, through which tissue pushed out and formed a giant, red, balloon-like structure. | Continue reading
Los Angeles is on fire, and it’s possible that much of the city could burn to the ground. This would be a disaster for California’s already wobbly home insurance market and the residents who rely on it. Kettle Insurance, a fintech startup focused on wildfire insurance for Califor … | Continue reading
Energy Innovation: Rising utility bills are a huge concern for U.S. families – ⅓ of households had to forego basic necessities to pay energy bills last year. But new Energy Innovation research finds the biggest culprits behind rising prices include fossil fuels and the climate ch … | Continue reading
A cache of precious metal regalia recently discovered in a Lithuanian cathedral sheds light on medieval royalty. | Continue reading
While the Ultrahuman Ring Air Rare models feature the same health-tracking tech, their new precious metal coatings are a bold statement in luxury wearable tech — especially with a price tag that’s far from affordable. | Continue reading
An artist's illustration of Earth's magnetosphere. | Continue reading
It's the start of your spring marathon training, and here is everything you need, from the best running shoes to a home treadmill | Continue reading
Do you know what this gaping, bloody gash needs? Some hydrogen peroxide from the back of my linen closet that expired five years ago. I will wash the oozing cut with warm water and soap to make sure it’s clean. Then I will dump this rancid old chemical into the open meat of my ha … | Continue reading
Fabio Cicala is currently working on a project called "Rude Awakening", which this single will be a part of. As hinted by the title, it will be music about major life events, that call people to introspection and to start living in a more thoughtful way. | Continue reading
Anyone that thought 5 years ago that battery chemistry was a static constant, was way wrong. We’re still in the model T stage of battery technology. | Continue reading