The Tile Mate and Apple’s AirTags have dropped to some of their best prices
You can buy four AirTags for $84.99, or about $21 each. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Now we’ve reached the end of July, back-to-school season is officially…
Etsy sellers say a fraud protection program is destabilizing their businesses
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge D., a carpenter and Etsy seller of several years, recently sold a piece of custom, made-to-order furniture for around $150. The sale itself…
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through July 29)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Does Sam Altman Know What He’s Creating? Ross Andersen | The Atlantic “i‘We could have gone off and just built this in our building here for five more…
The 2023 Porsche Cayman GT4 RS is the best sports car on sale today
Enlarge / Everyone always said Porsche would never put its best flat-six engine in the Cayman or it would overshadow the 911. Maybe that’s exactly what’s happened. (credit: Bradley Iger)…
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
National Security Agency headquarters. (credit: Trevor Paglen, Wikimedia Commons) An effort by United States lawmakers to prevent government agencies from domestically tracking citizens without a search warrant is facing opposition…
Communal stargazing using your phone: The Unistellar eQuinox 2, reviewed
Enlarge / The eQuinox 2 is ready for sundown in central Illinois. No eyepiece here, so have your smartphone handy if you want to stargaze. (credit: Eric Bangeman/Ars Technica) When…
Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice
Enlarge (credit: Getty | Portland Press Herald ) Local and federal authorities have shut down what seems to be an illegal medical lab hidden in a California warehouse that contained…
When it comes to keeping the fizz in your champagne, bottle size matters
Enlarge / French physicist Gerard Liger-Belair studied CO₂ levels in 13 old champagne vintages in three different bottle sizes. (credit: Andy Roberts/Getty Images) A large part of the pleasure of…
European satellite plunges back to Earth in first-of-its-kind assisted re-entry
Enlarge / Artist’s illustration showing the orbital tracks of the European Space Agency’s Aeolus satellite. (credit: ESA/ATG medialab) The European Space Agency deftly guided one of its satellites toward a…
Google’s RT-2 AI model brings us one step closer to WALL-E
Enlarge / A Google robot controlled by RT-2. (credit: Google) On Friday, Google DeepMind announced Robotic Transformer 2 (RT-2), a “first-of-its-kind” vision-language-action (VLA) model that uses data scraped from the…