Google is purging ‘low-quality’ Android apps next month
Google is cracking down on functionally useless Android apps. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is raising its minimum quality requirements for Android apps, and will soon…
Rocket Report: Firefly’s CEO steps down; Artemis II core stage leaves factory
Enlarge / The core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket rolls aboard a barge that will take it from New Orleans to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (credit:…
Gazelle Eclipse C380+ e-bike review: A smart, smooth ride at a halting price
Enlarge (credit: Kevin Purdy) Let me get three negative points about the Gazelle Eclipse out of the way first. First, it’s a 62-pound e-bike, so it’s tough to get moving…
Nvidia CEO predicts AI models a million times more powerful in 10 years
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you double it gets big, but if you times it by a million you get a fundamentally different kind of AI … Love…
US hypersonic vehicle achieves Mach 5 in first test flight
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The US is really bad at developing hypersonic vehicles, but it’s hoping to get better to catch China and Russia. Love the Exponential Future?…
DARPA announces first of a kind project to allow real time drug approvals
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As AI gets faster at creating new drugs we need a way to test, trial, and approve them at speed and DARPA wants real time…
Google’s shortened links will stop working next year
Illustration: The Verge If you ever used Google’s URL shortening service goo.gl before it was shut down in 2019, be warned — those links will stop working on August 25th,…
Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline
Image: Microsoft Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide. A…
FTC blasts Microsoft’s new ‘degraded’ Xbox Game Pass Standard tier and price increases
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has blasted Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass price increases in a filing to the US Court of Appeals for…
Xbox Live is down
Image: The Verge If you’re trying to play online games on your Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One, or even Xbox 360 right now, you might be running into…