Mitsubishi Leaves China and Other Troubled Car Makers
The Japan Times reports, Mitsubishi Motors has suspended its China business indefinitely and will lay off staff after years of poor sales in a market rapidly turning to electric vehicles.…
Musk Drives With Urgency, Speed and Innovation
Joe Justice talks about how Toyota has been the number one car company in the world because of their focus on efficiency and quality. However, Toyota’s Corolla and Camry has…
NASA starts building ice-hunting Moon rover
Enlarge / Artist’s concept of the VIPER rover working in lunar darkness. (credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter) The search for ice at the Moon’s poles has loomed large in the field of…
This Barbie is a feminist parable fighting to be great in spite of Mattel’s input
Margot Robbie as Barbie in her cowgirl guise. | Image: Warner Bros. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is often good and sometimes great, but it always feels like it’s fighting to be…
Was Benjamin Franklin the first to incorporate colored fiber into currency?
Enlarge / Khachatur Manukyan and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame used cutting-edge spectroscopic and imaging instruments to get a closer look at the inks, paper, and fibers that…
“Church of Bleach” family goes to trial, representing themselves in court
Enlarge / Bottles of MMS, the bleach product that Genesis II Church of Health and Healing was ordered to stop selling. (credit: Genesis II Church of Health and Healing) A…
Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has some ideas
Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge Squarespace has lived through the eras of domain squatting, SEO keywords, and social algorithms and is now launching AI tools. Here’s what’s…
Google is testing AI-generated Meet video backgrounds
Illustration: The Verge I am not big on blurring out or replacing my office background with premade images, but then again, I’m fortunate enough to have a small environment I’m…
Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues
Enlarge (credit: Witthaya Prasongsin (Getty Images)) OpenAI has been testing its multimodal version of GPT-4 with image-recognition support prior to a planned wide release. However, public access is being curtailed…
Battery shortage forces GM to pause commercial EV production
Enlarge / In March BrightDrop shipped the first 500 vans built at its factory in Canada. (credit: BrightDrop) General Motors has idled production of some of its electric vehicles due…