The rise and fall of OpenSea
The rise and fall of NFTs made and unmade OpenSea — the largest marketplace for the crypto asset. But insider accounts of the company reveal a chaotic work environment, ever-shifting…
Tumblr will move all its blogs to WordPress — and you won’t even notice a difference
Illustration: The Verge Soon, all the blogs on Tumblr will be hosted on WordPress. Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Tumblr, announced on Wednesday that it will start to…
Sick of heavy electric SUVs and crossovers? Ariel debuts the E-Nomad.
Enlarge / There’s a reason the Ariel Nomad works so well in open-world games like Forza Horizon. Now Ariel has developed an electric version. (credit: Ariel) The low-volume British carmaker…
Telegram CEO released by police, transferred to court for possible indictment
Enlarge / Telegram CEO Pavel Durov at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is heading to…
Elon Musk’s Boring Company can’t get Tesla FSD to work in tunnels
Enlarge / Human driver will continue to be a job at the Boring Company Las Vegas Loop for the foreseeable future. (credit: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Image) Autonomous driving…
Apple lays off employees working on Books and News
Enlarge / The Apple Books icon on a Mac. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple will cut 100 jobs, all in its digital services teams. Laid off employees will have 60 days…
Man posing as teen YouTuber gets 17 years for horrific global sextortion scheme
Enlarge (credit: Artur Debat | Moment) An Australian man who pretended to be a famous teenage YouTuber has been sentenced to 17 years for orchestrating what police are calling “one…
New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model that can interactively simulate the classic 1993 first-person…
A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project
Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange, maybe? (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has donated the Mono Project,…
Google Gemini will let you create AI-generated people again
Google’s Imagen 3 is capable of generating photorealistic images of people. | Image: Imagen 3 Google is letting its users generate images of people through its Gemini AI chatbot again…