The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill
Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the…
Daily Telescope: A colorful heart with a blue core
Enlarge / The Heart Nebula. (credit: Paul Macklin) Welcome to the Daily Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light, a little too…
Can rocks absorb enough CO2 to fight climate change? These companies think so
A startup called Lithos Carbon spreads crushed basalt across farmlands to trap carbon dioxide in rock. | Image courtesy of Frontier Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, and a slew of other companies…
GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used in cement mixers and terminal tractors
Image: GM General Motors struck a deal with commercial vehicle manufacturer Autocar to use its hydrogen fuel-cell technology to power a range of heavy-duty work vehicles. Hydrogen fuel cells —…
Epic kicks off Fortnite’s new era with Lego Fortnite
Image: Epic Games In what’s becoming increasingly common for Fortnite, the game is fusing with one of the biggest pop culture properties around. This time around, it’s Lego. But the…
Proton Drive is adding an encrypted photo backup feature on Android
Image: Proton Proton Drive, the end-to-end encrypted cloud storage app, is getting more like Google Drive. The Android version of the app now lets you automatically back up and manage…
Global Quantum Computer Market
the Global Quantum Computer market is $848 million in 2023 and is growing to about $1.5 billion in 2026. The main algorithms are for Modeling/Simulation, Optimization, AI and cybersecurity. There…
Q-CTRL Improving Quantum Computers Thousands of Times
Q-CTRL has raised a total of over $70 million. They provide quantum error suppression and quantum error mitigation to improve the performance of quantum computers (superconducting, trapped ion, neutral atom).…
Messenger is finally getting end-to-end encryption by default
Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger, finally fulfilling a promise that’s been in the works for quite…
IBM Is Planning to Build Its First Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer by 2029
This week, IBM announced a pair of shiny new quantum computers. The company’s Condor processor is the first quantum chip of its kind with over 1,000 qubits, a feat that…