The chilling distance of The Zone of Interest
Image: A24 During World War II, the Germans designated the area surrounding Auschwitz the “zone of interest.” The dullness of the phrase was intentional, another euphemism as operative as “concentration…
How Flash Heating Plastic Waste Could Produce Green Hydrogen and Graphene
Hydrogen could be a green fuel of the future, but at present it’s mainly made out of fossil fuels in a process that generates a lot of CO2. A new…
The AI gadgets are coming
Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 9, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, hurray! I’m…
Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites add to astronomers’ light-pollution woes
Enlarge (credit: Alan Dyer/Getty Images) Amazon is set to launch two satellite prototypes for its Project Kuiper network, which will eventually number more than 3,200 orbiters. Project Kuiper could become…
Lamplighters League is light stealth, heavy pulp style, and XCOM gun battles
Enlarge / Purnima, the sniper you can recruit, is an assassin who refused to do a job for the evil Council because it involved a child murder. Now, as part…
Xsolla Powers Web Shop Launches For 40 Of The Top 100 Mobile Games
Sherman Oaks, United States, October 4th, 2023, FinanceWire Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, shares insights that 40 of the top 100 mobile games have launched their Web Shop…
BYD Passes Ford Sales on the Way to 9-10 Million Per Year in 2027
BYD passed Ford as the world’s fourth best-selling auto brand in August, Ford’s sales dropped in Europe and the US, market research firm TrendForce said in a report today. BYD…
The Epic v. Google witness list: Andy Rubin, Sundar Pichai, and more to testify
Illustration: The Verge It’s been almost 10 months since a trial date was set in Epic’s antitrust lawsuit against Google, and with all of the other big tech cases going…
MGM didn’t pay up after hackers broke into its system and stole customer data
K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images The Wall Street Journal wrote on Thursday that MGM Resorts International didn’t pay the ransomware attackers who broke into its systems…
Which Will Have More Impact FSD or Teslabot? 2024? 2030? 2040?
A discussion with Randy Kirk on how rapidly Teslabot and FSD can be developed and scaled next year. How much financial impact will each make next year ? How fast…