You can finally buy a Playdate without waiting for months
Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Nearly two years after it first debuted, Panic has caught up on preorders for its adorable Playdate handheld. The company says that it has…
Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers
Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) Once again, Cloudflare has proven that its unusual defense against meritless claims of patent infringement effectively works to end so-called “patent trolling.”…
Infleqtion 1600 Qubit Array Today and Five Year Roadmap to Fault Tolerant Quantum Computers
Infleqtion announced the next phase of its quantum computing program: Sqorpius, the world’s largest qubit array, comprising 1600 qubits. This new initiative encompasses substantial investments in both hardware and software…
Apple’s sci-fi drama Invasion is getting a third season
Image: Apple Apple TV Plus has some more aliens on the way. The streaming service has confirmed that its sci-fi drama Invasion will be getting a third season, after wrapping…
Nvidia CEO calls for “Sovereign AI” as his firm overtakes Amazon in market value
Enlarge (credit: Nvidia / Benj Edwards) On Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that every country should control its own AI infrastructure so it can protect its culture, Reuters reports.…
NASA’s New Deep Space Laser Communication 40 Times Bandwidth of Radio Communications
In late 2023, NASA tested a new hybrid laser/radio antenna to downlink data from 20 million miles (32 million kilometers) away at a rate of 15.63 megabits per second –…
Ignore your fitness tracker and walk to Mordor instead
I’ve got a long way to get to Mordor, but an imaginary destination can be more fun than metrics. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge In mid-November, my…
Otter is making AI bots part of the group chat
Otter’s AI Chat in Channels. | Image: Otter AI Otter, the automated transcription service, is rolling out a new AI feature that lets groups ask a chatbot questions about what…
A sneaky piracy app is trending in Apple’s App Store
The Kimi app as viewed in the macOS App Store. | Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge There’s a vision testing app called Kimi sitting at number eight in the…
A remote school outage might give NYC kids their snow day after all
Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images Even though New York City schools shut down ahead of the heavy snowfall expected to blanket the area for most of Tuesday, the…