10 great Windows PC games from 2023
The Verge / Image courtesy of Larian Studios 2023 is likely to go down in history as one of gaming’s greats, and at times it’s been challenging just to keep…
Getting to the bottom of how red flour beetles absorb water through their butts
Enlarge / Who doesn’t thrill to the sight of a microscopic cross-section of a beetle’s rectum? You’re welcome. (credit: Kenneth Veland Halberg) There’s rarely time to write about every cool…
Ars Technica’s best video games of 2023
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) It’s been a real period of feast or famine in the video game industry of late. Last year in this space, we lamented how COVID-related development…
China Getting Serious About Nuclear Commercial Ships Again
China has designed the world’s first large containership with a nuclear Molten Salt reactor. The design was developed by Jiangnan Shipbuilding, a division of the Chinese state-owned China State Shipbuilding…
Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Earlier this year, Amazon announced plans to start incorporating ads into movies and TV shows streamed from its Prime Video service, and now…
Researchers argue back and forth about whether we’ve spotted an exomoon
Enlarge (credit: NASA) In 2017, the astronomy world was abuzz at the announcement that exoplanet Kepler-1625b potentially had its own moon—an exomoon. This was the first hint anyone had seen…
Fully Ramped Tesla Megapack and 4680 Production Lines in 2024
Superior Tesla performance in 2024 can come from surprising scaling of the Tesla Megapacks and 4680s. Tesla will just need to replicate the fully ramped each of the first Megapack…
Quantum Battery Charging Improved
Batteries that exploit quantum phenomena to gain, distribute and store power promise to beat conventional chemical batteries in certain low-power applications. University of Tokyo and other researchers have takne advantage…
Google Videopoet for Text to Video and Image to Video LLM AI
Google just launched VideoPoet, and literally ChatGPT for: – Text-to-Video – Image-to-Video – Inpainting – Video Editing Videopoet has not been released yet but will be available soon from the…
Apple appeals US ban on Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Series 9
Image: Apple Apple has filed an appeal to the International Trade Commission’s decision to ban U.S. sales of Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 models, court records show. Additionally,…