After aborting a planned catch of Starship Flight 15's booster, SpaceX successfully captured Starship with its "Mechazilla" launch and catch tower for the first time. The company has performed 'chopstick' catches of its boosters before, but thi...
"It's really happening. I promise. For real." Those are the first words from Roy Graham, Head of Story at Magic: The Gathering, in a video posted yesterday announcing Planeswalker, the animated series heading to Netflix in 2027. An animated Mag...
A view of an information board at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport, filled with waiting passengers on November 13, 2026. | Anadolu via Getty Images At a press conference today, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that Friday's nat...
The fallout from Microsoft's education price rises and service cuts continues as institutions weigh the prospect of bigger bills, and the Windows maker's rivals struggle not to pull "I told you so" faces.The main takeaways are that free student emai...
Black Friday has become a shopping season of its own, with retailers once again offering discounts well ahead of the actual shopping holiday. We’ve already rounded up some of the best early Black Friday deals we’ve come across, but if you’re lo...
Today, I’m talking with Helen Toner, the executive director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. This episode is part two of our series on AI in real life.Helen is a well-known figure in the AI safety and...
Tesla is doubling, or perhaps tripling down on its bold claims of an autonomous future with the offer to "select customers" to purchase a Cybercab for "personal use." But the gilded, steering-wheel-free two-seater will "only be available in sup...
As much as I appreciate the ingenious design of the Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con, my family and I can't stand using them as standalone gamepads. So when we travel with the Switch 2, we always bring at least one full-size gamepad, plus a couple of...
Technology companies are doing just enough to show a degree of compliance with the UK's Online Safety Act, but are failing to meet the needs of the individuals and young victims the legislation exists to protect, experts say.A panel of online safety...
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 152, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, thank you for taking time away from Zelda to be here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2025. | Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images On January 6th, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got his rockstar moment at last. He strode triumphantly onstage, hand...
The US Federal Aviation Administration on Friday issued an advisory that prevented the takeoff of flights in US airspace for around five hours, creating chaos for travelers and airports. The stop was finally lifted around 8:30 PM Eastern Time, but o...
US export controls are not stopping AI labs in China from using restricted Nvidia chips, according to a report from a former OpenAI engineer.Will DePue, who left the AI giant earlier this year to launch Unemployment Labs, an AI research consultancy,...
Chalk up a new record for vulns. The number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) found and disclosed so far in 2026 surpassed 100,000 on Friday - more than double 2025’s total - and the reason can be summed up in two letters: AI.“It’s kind...
The internet is full of schlock, from biased news and dubious hot takes to false factoids. LogicLens aims to separate fact from fiction using the very same technology behind some of that slop: AI.It’s a simple premise, really: LogicLens, which lives...
Amazon has plans to build a vault of data on every product sold anywhere on the internet, even products Amazon doesn't sell, and make the information available through its own site, according to Reuters. The project, called the "World Product G...
Solo, Mozilla's LLM-powered website builder and hosting service, is shutting down. All sites and data will be deleted on November 30.Mozilla launched Solo in December 2023 as a "Mozilla Innovation Project," aimed at helping sole traders to build the...
Two email addresses used to send bomb threats that disrupted thousands of Italian schools this week were found exposed in infostealer logs for over a year, experts say.Researchers at Hudson Rock looked into the two university email addresses used to...
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 3: Delta Airlines planes at the gate as a United Airlines plane lands at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) on June 3, 2026 in New York City. Jet fuel prices have roughly doubled since the start of the war in Iran, and airlines around...
HPE is pitching high performance compute customers with hybrid configurations of its Cray Supercomputing Storage Systems built for faster throughput, along with a Rack Management Controller that monitors cooling systems.The hardware giant already s...