The Atari 400 Mini is a cute little slice of video game history
Image: Atari Now that the miniature game console trend has already covered most of the biggest devices from Nintendo, Sega, and Sony, we’re starting to enter more niche territory. The…
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 30)
COMPUTING The Best Qubits for Quantum Computing Might Just Be Atoms Philip Ball | Quanta “In the search for the most scalable hardware to use for quantum computers, qubits made…
The world needs more gadgets like LG’s briefcase TV
The company that usually specializes in premium OLED TVs has produced something refreshingly out of the ordinary. And I already hope it gets a sequel. Continue reading…
The entire state of Illinois is going to be crawling with cicadas
Enlarge (credit: Ed Reschke via Getty) Brace yourselves, Illinoisans: A truly shocking number of cicadas are about to live, make sweet love, and die in a tree near you. Two…
The DNC made a weird AI-generated parody of a Lara Trump song
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Stephen Morton, Getty Images After Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump’s indie music detour to launch a heavily autotuned track called “Anything…
OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work
Illustration: The Verge OpenAI is offering limited access to a text-to-voice generation platform it developed called Voice Engine, which can create a synthetic voice based on a 15-second clip of…
Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went
Enlarge (credit: Martin Barraud) When we talk about memories in biology, we tend to focus on the brain and the storage of information in neurons. But there are lots of…
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Image) On Wednesday, the IEEE Computer Society announced to members that, after April 1, it would no longer accept papers that include a frequently…
Bridges aren’t ready for today’s huge ships
Photo by Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images For years now, civil engineers have understood that bridges have a problem: many of them are not designed to withstand a blow from…
Sony’s elusive PlayStation Portal is back in stock at Best Buy
Sony’s all-in-one device is available for its usual asking price of $199.99 at Best Buy. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony’s PlayStation Portal may not…