Some nice upgrades for Apple’s best gadgets
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 74, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If youâre new here, welcome, sorry in advance for my terrible TV…
Huh? The valuable role of interjections
Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic…
Retroid offered very limited returns for its unfixable handheld
The Retroid Pocket Mini has an unfixable issue that’s causing certain graphical effects for emulated games not to work properly. Retroid, the China-based company that makes the Pocket Mini, announced…
Many Unknowns for Flight 8 SpaceX Starship Failure
Starship’s V2 redesign suffered almost exactly the same failure on flight 8 as it did on flight 7, fire in the engine bay leading to engine failure and RUD. There…
Worldchanging Millions of Tesla Robotaxi in 2026 that are 10X Safer Than Human
Cern Basher and Ark Invest provides some analysis and tracking of the rapidly improving quality of Tesla FSD and robotaxi. Tesla is will soon pass the 6 billion miles of…
The Last of Us season 2 gets an explosive new trailer
Warner Bros. Discovery just released a new trailer for the second (and maybe last) season of The Last of Us, offering an action-packed view of the fraught world Pedro Joel…
NVIDIA Chip Roadmap: B200, Rubin and Beyond Versus Tesla Dojo 2, 3 and 4
NVIDIA’s chip roadmap progresses from the B200, part of the Blackwell architecture, to the Rubin architecture, with hints of potential “ultra” chips or new architectures in the future. The next…
Trump’s DOJ still says Google should be broken up
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is still pushing to break up Google, according to a revised proposal filed Friday with federal Judge Amit Mehta. As in its proposal last…
Construction, Power Timeline for xAI to Reach a 3 Million GPU Supercluster
A step-by-step analysis of the xAI’s Colossus supercomputer project. Considering AI rack density power, internal power allocation for 1 million chips, potential for expansion beyond to 2-3 million GPUS and…
xAI Expansion to 1 Million GPUs Late in 2025 or Early 2026
In 2025, xAI has bought a one-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI Data Centers which already has 200,000 Nvidia H100/H200 chips. The new facility will complement xAI’s…