GM says it has become the No. 2 seller of EVs in the US
Image: GM GM is claiming the number two spot in EV sales in the US for the third quarter of this year, selling 32,000 electric vehicles. The automaker produces EVs…
What this 500-year-old shipwreck can tell us about how we age
Henry VIII’s favorite warship, the Mary Rose, sank in battle in 1545. Archaeologists successfully raised the ship in 1982, along with thousands of articles and the remains of 179 crew…
Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste
Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones. More than 260 million vape batteries are estimated to…
The Trek Checkpoint SL 7 AXS Gen 3 may be the perfect gravel bike
As I followed a friend down a flow-y, undulating single-track trail, I started laughing. Unlike my mountain bike-riding companion, I was on a gravel bike, the new Trek Checkpoint SL…
Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit
How did supermassive black holes end up at the center of every galaxy? A while back, it wasn’t that hard to explain: That’s where the highest concentration of matter is,…
Amazon’s Echo Spot alarm clock is on sale with a free color smart bulb
The Echo Spot is a smart alarm clock / speaker hybrid that’s $5 shy of its all-time low price. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The clocks…
Elon Musk’s PAC admits $1 million voter giveaways aren’t ‘random’
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A representative of Elon Musk’s America PAC said the winners of its $1 million voter sweepstakes aren’t randomly selected. The people who…
Prime Video will let you summon AI to recap what you’re watching
Image: Amazon Amazon’s Prime Video is getting a new generative AI-powered feature to help catch you up on a show. The new tool, called X-Ray Recaps, can create text summaries…
Elon Musk turns X’s block button into a “glorified mute button”
X, formerly Twitter, is now letting blocked users see posts made by the people who blocked them. “We’re starting to launch the block function update,” X’s engineering team wrote yesterday.…
Sick of supersized EVs? The 2025 Hyundai Kona Electric hits the spot.
If conventional wisdom were to be believed, the car we’re reviewing today should not exist. Automakers are only interested in making very big, very expensive electric vehicles, leaving nothing for…