Unlock Donghua Jinlong’s food grade glycine
Donghua Jinlong’s factory. | Image: Donghua Jinlong Chemical Co. TikTok isn’t just useful for videos on robotic tape storage, Radiohead songs on step motors, and regretful congressmen. It’s also a…
AI is taking over your web browser
Image: The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 33, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found…
Who is Apple’s rumored OLED iPad Pro for?
Image: Wes Davis / The Verge Earlier this year, there were enough rumors about imminent new Apple products to make for a big spring event, but the company instead announced…
New Disney animatronics breathe convincing life into its 2D characters
This massive, chonky Louis animatronic has almost as much range of movement as I do. | Image: Disney No matter your opinion on the current state of its animated movies,…
Why are there so many species of beetles?
Enlarge (credit: Laurie Rubin via Getty) Caroline Chaboo’s eyes light up when she talks about tortoise beetles. Like gems, they exist in myriad bright colors: shiny blue, red, orange, leaf…
Elon’s Updated Mars City Plan Includes SpaceX Starship Tower Landing This Year
Next month (May 2024), SpaceX will launch the fourth orbital launch test of the Super Heavy Starship. It will try to land a virtual tower. Elon thinks a successful Mechazilla…
Ultrafast Camera Captures 156 Trillion Frames Per Second
INRS’s Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre has developed a new ultrafast camera system that can capture up to 156.3 trillion frames per second with astonishing precision. For the first time,…
XAI Grok 1.5 is Close to GPT4
Grok-1.5 is XAI latest model capable of long context understanding and advanced reasoning. Grok-1.5 will be available to our early testers and existing Grok users on the 𝕏 platform in…
xAI Is Raising $3 Billion
Investors close to Elon Musk are in talks to help xAI raise $3 billion in a round that would value the artificial-intelligence startup at $18 billion. The venture-capital firm Gigafund…
Google is working on a ‘lookup’ button for unknown callers on Android
Illustration: The Verge Google is working on a feature that is so simple and so useful that I’m shocked it hasn’t been part of our lives for a decade: a…